Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 104, August 2022 Siena Goldman aka S. Putnik lives in her birthplace, Los Angeles, where she has spent her lifetime so far experimenting with the visual and musical arts. She loves working with pencil, pastel, watercolor, crayon and collage to convey interesting textures, color palettes, and moods in her […]
Coins Dropped By Alison Moski Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 103, July 2022 Coins dropped Into a skull slot Slip down into throat Disappearing A token of wisdom ingested Walk-through solidity of heat wall Under drifting cumulonimbus Blinding whiteness cauliflower-Ness Tao of physics Snagged at a free library A second read through might make
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Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 102, June 2022 Siena Goldman aka S. Putnik lives in her birthplace, Los Angeles, where she has spent her lifetime so far experimenting with the visual and musical arts. She loves working with pencil, pastel, watercolor, crayon and collage to convey interesting textures, color palettes, and moods in her
Vocal Manipulations By Maggie D. Fedorov Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 101, May 2022 I hear voices but it’s not the paranoia Talking; Different mouths speak, but the voice is not their own. I recognize this voice, Know it by heart. I know from Whence the whispers crept; from lecherous pit to unsuspecting minds
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Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 099, March 2022 Siena Goldman aka S. Putnik lives in her birthplace, Los Angeles, where she has spent her lifetime so far experimenting with the visual and musical arts. She loves working with pencil, pastel, watercolor, crayon and collage to convey interesting textures, color palettes, and moods in her
Entrance at Mutato Feat. S. Putnik By Mark Mothersbaugh Published as the Back Cover Issue 099, March 2022 Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver vital social commentary, he has perpetually challenged and redefined musical and visual boundaries.
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SUCCUBI By Mark J. Mitchell Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 098, February 2022 He never got his witch — the potent night that cracked open under her icy touch. Or silence, wrapping him soft as a cut reed shroud. All his short time was spent in light too ordinary. He’d constructed small shrines against
Disassociation By Maggie D. Fedorov Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 098, February 2022 The totality of the absence of sound would shame the dead; whom in their inability to stifle their very existence despite having stared long into the eyes and heart of death, yet have failed to accomplish that for which an empty
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NEAR HOLLYWOOD, 1948 By Mark J. Mitchell Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 097, January 2022 The outside man from poverty row never met his angels on time. So very bad movies remained unmade and spools of lovely, silver acetate stayed unexposed. There was a girl whose smile would have glittered in the dark and
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