Anxiety in a High-Rise

Jeanna Paden

Anxiety in a High-Rise

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the stairwell smells like a barbeque joint tonight and also a joint; lightbulb on the last flight of stairs is out and if the broken doorknob at the bottom of…

Mathew Yates

no fresh air

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could you put away the window? the light is arrogant & i’m too obedient to hear orders & not follow, i’d stare straight into the sun if i thought the…

Z.M. Wise

At the Threshold of Carnal Anxiety

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Falling through broken trapdoors, this oubliette lets me glimpse at the light that was promised centuries ago. Tapestries of nobility hung over the clouds of dust in an attempt to…

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