Test   Tolerance for raw meat is a good start.     You’ve got a nice selection of scars but I need more proof.     Here’s a sleeping bag,…

An Ache in the Knot    if there’s a shortness in the breath of the lungs if there’s an ache in the muscles of the arm   if there’s a…

Naked   Evening circles sunlight from the sky, mirrors my window, one way. Outside I must be museumed, diorama’d, aglow.   I turn to see who’s watching, find the one…

Love, an Abstract   His torso’s door gnashing ravenously, the Tin Man chases, chest-first, after the heart floating an arm’s length out of reach in his own hand.   Clownfish…

  Nav Nagra is a writer, reader and knitter. She is currently working on two books of poetry.

  Eli Zibin is a poet in Vancouver.

Just how some folks play the blues   “There’s just some thing about the wide-mouthed women!” I say, bashful over details of my latest adventures, down the front of slim…

To Forget It’s a blessing, isn’t it? To be able, days at a time, to forget what we are. – “Blood Honey,” Chana Bloch     Two friends in two…

    mia susan amir was born in Israel/Palestine and currently lives between Oakland CA, and Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish Territories. amir is a writer, performer, vocalist, facilitator and community…

From Vancouver for Beginners   The Bridges There are entire neighbourhoods you need to forgive. Streets, daylighted gutter creeks, morning shoulders, your legs still walking home. The ocean slumps at…

  Shazia Hafiz Ramji lives in Vancouver, BC where she works at Anvil Press, facilitates creative writing workshops for Megaphone magazine, reads submissions and edits book reviews for subTerrain magazine, and is the managing editor…