Winter 2020
Florecer
Audax the Damsel (Sofía Stutz) is a bilingual rapper. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and grew up in Evanston. She is majoring in philosophy and minoring in Latin American studies. You can find her music on YouTube and Spotify.
Harvest
Would I love my daughterstubborn girldip her father’s knuckled hands into mulchpalms raw from the scrapes she got as she dugin our backyard, plantingapple seedswould my eyes rest over the bumpin her nose as it turnedUp toward the sky with faithin fertile earth Today, rivers swellpast their banksto the barn door and low branches To… Read More Harvest
rebirth
if god were to exist,i believe there would be a Spinozan necessity. the universe;synchronized, sprungsome disheveled form of free willthrown together like onion skins andentrails in a sacka horrible, violent rush of waterall caught about, arms flailingand fingers crunching god, among usa punishing currentunabashed and left staticad infinitum i only hopea horrific silence would take… Read More rebirth
Swelling, Pregnant
a tundra of bliss;my fingers weaving betweenswords of grass and unknowing insectslike grasping at bedsheetsbetween the shameand the ecstasyof sex had you ever felt the water swell?had you ever heard the earth breathe —no, heave?some dry heaving, a morning sicknessof morning dew,of a mother pregnant and achingto burst open with life a cruel biology. all… Read More Swelling, Pregnant
Canyengue
Audax the Damsel (Sofía Stutz) is a bilingual rapper. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and grew up in Evanston. She is majoring in philosophy and minoring in Latin American studies. You can find her music on YouTube and Spotify.
Spontaneous Combustion
When I was in fifth grade, I developed an inexplicable, but severe fear of spontaneous combustion. That year, my younger brother returned home from the Scholastic Book Fair with a book about unexplained supernatural phenomena. I loved spooky stories about mysterious ghosts and cryptid creatures, so at the first possible opportunity, I stole the book… Read More Spontaneous Combustion
The Gravitational Constant
Her killer is cannibalistic time:a virulent strain of clocks and moons and tides.for as long as time has eaten time they’ve told the sickyou still have time butanyone on borrowed time knowsthat passing time steals all your time, knowshow borrowed time bleeds like sun before the dusk settlesand dies before the dust settles —anyone on… Read More The Gravitational Constant
Electropherogram
Hairbrush crosswalks parting no-one’s-mother, shoesspilling onto the pavement like a burst vein – pulmonary. Sixty beats a minute. What is the pulseinsistent on the door – a taptaptapping firm from that little blue river vining around the wrist. Electropherograms remind meof the curl of a scarf in a draft, the grace of a dancer’sartful contortion.Is mine not working… Read More Electropherogram
