This selection is paired with Book 21 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. To end my life with the ending of my life, I record that I returned to him in January. The month doesn’t matter. Ten years is wha

Siren’s Lament

Nov 19th, 2019 15m 19s

This selection is paired with Book 12 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. In the twelfth century B.C.E., Odysseus sacked Troy and turned his eyes, thoughts and footsteps toward Ithaca and home. But havin

The Mouth of Charybdis

Nov 12th, 2019 13m 26s

This selection is paired with Book 12 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. I am the mouth that swallowed your ships and ate your men. They are dead inside of me. You are the only one left, and if you let

Instruction Manual: If Feeling Half-Left Behind Like Young Elpenor

Nov 5th, 2019 2m 39s

This selection is paired with Book 11 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. If the world is wide and spinning. You could get a glass, highball, lowball, or rocks. Pick it up. Look through it. See your futu

The Sailors Mutter After Odysseus Orders Them Not to Open the Sack From Aeolus

Oct 29th, 2019 1m 40s

This selection is paired with Book 10 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. Old windbag, always warning. What harm can come to us while the west wind strums melodies on the zither of the sails? Kings may g

The Lotus Eater Clarifies Her Addiction

Oct 22nd, 2019 1m 29s

This selection is paired with Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. The petals of the Lotus plant are sweet like Creten honey or a pink rose of frosting. And it is true, we who suck its bloom have n

Odysseus Alone at Sea

Oct 15th, 2019 2m 5s

This selection is paired with Book 5 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. Why do I smell hyacinth on the night air— black upon rising black, ruthless thrum my aching elbow slipping from splintered plank t

Before Paris Came

Oct 8th, 2019 5m 59s

This selection is paired with Book 4 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. After the mining methods advanced, the delta changed colors: yellows, chartreuses, coppers, even sick blues all running down the h

Penelope Sends a Love Letter

Oct 1st, 2019 1m 48s

This selection is paired with Book 3 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. This water will never forgive you. You may be able to rise from it but you will never be clean. You will always notice bits of kel

Waiting on Odysseus

Sep 24th, 2019 3m 6s

This selection is paired with Book 2 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. my friend and I were talking about our online dating experiences and he asked me what I was looking for in a man and I said, I am

Proxy

Sep 17th, 2019 1m 41s

This selection is paired with Book 2 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue #22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press.In Ithaca each night, the suitors sung her name(and to/of her praises) though lewd and out-of-tune.So seven-and-a-half-(some)

She Contains All

Sep 10th, 2019 7m 47s

This selection is paired with Book 1 of The Odyssey by Homer. You can get the full issue of NonBinary Review #22 from Zoetic Press.I waited for you and I waited. I waited and waited. After some years of waiting, I took a pebble from the strea

Calypso, Riddled

Sep 3rd, 2019 1m 27s

This selection is paired with Book 1 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get the full issue of NonBinary Review #22 from Zoetic Press.My grapes glisten obediently upon trained vines,But you cannot be trained.The water channels I’ve shaped duly irrigat

Grodlik

Aug 27th, 2019 10m 38s

This selection is paired with The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. Get the full issue of NonBinary Review #21 at www.zoeticpress.comI am called Grodlik. My name is more a sound that came from my lifegivers when they saw me than an actual title, b

The Homilies of Edward Prendick

Aug 13th, 2019 2m 24s

This selection is paired with The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Get the full issue of NonBinary Review #21 at www.zoeticpress.comI was once lost at seamadness became mebecause I found Himsaw his rebornsaw the dark of his WordHi

The Crying Puma

Jul 30th, 2019 2m 4s

This selection is paired with The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Get the full issue of NonBinary Review #21 at www.zoeticpress.com“Experts Say Southern California Mountain Lions Could Become Extinct in 50 Years”.—www.kcet.orgYou wou

The Man Alone

Jul 16th, 2019 2m 2s

This selection is paired with The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Get the full issue of NonBinary Review #21 at www.zoeticpress.comtell me Mr. Prendick,which of our constellations brought you peace?lend me the bookstomes that touch

Far Too Short a Day

Jul 2nd, 2019 7m 13s

This selection is paired with The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Get NonBinary Review #21 from www.zoeticpress.com.“Ulla…”“Ulla…”“Ulla…”“Ulla…”The Martian wandered, and it wondered.It wondered at the artistry of this gr

RSVP – Mars

Jun 18th, 2019 3m 2s

This selection is paired with The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Get NonBinary Review Issue #21 at www.zoeticpress.com.“… Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intelle

Invisible? Man, I Wish

Jun 4th, 2019 2m 41s

This selection is paired with The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. Get NonBinary Review Issue #21 at www.zoeticpress.comNo, I can’t say I ever met —was it Griffin?but I knew a man—let’s call him D—who was that much of a di

The Benefits of Southern Hospitality

May 21st, 2019 18m 6s

This selection is paired with “Human Remains” by Clive Barker. Get NonBinary Review #20 from Zoetic Press. Dear Judge Marigold,It is with most shock andoutrage that I learn, twenty years after Arthur Wallace savagely murdered h

My Tumor’s Hunger

May 7th, 2019 7m 53s

This selection is paired with “Son of Celluloid” by Clive Barker. Get NonBinary Review #20 at Zoetic Press. There was a man who collectedlittle bits of me. Strands of my curling hair, a piece of my menstruation, ascraping of my ar

Ink and Flame

Apr 9th, 2019 1m 32s

This selection is paired with “In the Hills, the Cities” by Clive Barker. Get NonBinary Review #20 from Zoetic Press.The cost of everything, value of nothing; Sun shines, and moon cries: Without you, There ain’t anything free.

The City Your Father, the City Your Brother

Mar 26th, 2019 2m 19s

This selection is paired with “Midnight Meat Train” by Clive Barker. Get NonBinary Review #20 from Zoetic Press.How hard it was to share a fatherwith an entire city and competewith all the neon, oil slicks, and crashes.A painting in

Blood

Mar 12th, 2019 1m 40s

A Found Poem in Tanka Form*This selection is paired with “The Books of Blood” by Clive Barker. Get NonBinary Review #20 from Zoetic Press.the dead have highways an endless traffic of souls across the wasteland seducing out of silen