Veterinary

by | Aug 20, 2026 | issue 1, poetry

Elle DelSignore breaking in my leather seats, side of the road in the dead of summer,my world was smaller once, well-worn.i like to use my things until they give out beneath me,so can we give it a go? after months of imaginingour shoe soles have worn through in the...

Meridian

by | Aug 20, 2026 | issue 1, poetry

Edytta Wojnar https://unboundink.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Meridian-Edytta-Wojnar.mp3 I shed grateful tears that day in Junewhen my daughter & I sat side-by-sidewearing sunglasses & aviation headsetsin a helicopter flying from Juneauabove frozen rivers...

Elegy with Contrast Agent

by | Aug 20, 2026 | issue 1, poetry

David Anson Lee https://unboundink.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/David_s-audiofiole.mp3 Not the tumor:expected,almost courteousin its clarity; but the gray matterlike weathered stoneunder a thin electric sky. The report will say:irregular margins,possible...

And Then She Left

by | Aug 20, 2026 | issue 1, poetry

Dale Scherfling I named her Mary Jones. She had shoulder-length dark hair. Nothing spectacular about the face. She wasn’t the kind of woman who stopped a room. She was the kind who stayed in it — quietly, steadily — until one day you realized she had become the...