Punk Monk Press/Magazine

  --Kimber Acrylic

On the Demolition of our Home, after Renting for Eight Years                          Look closer you’ll see me in the window  double-hung open curtains cinched  like Cinderella’s funeral shroud just left of the front porch above the pink lemonade bush sitting on my bed typing & crying & cursing you with your fancy car big real estate purchase cell phone boldness  just getting some shots  for the demolition the new construction for your condos you’ll notice back at the office a funny shadow in the frame  squint a little harder that’s my middle finger pointing straight up  like the hour-hand  announcing midnight at the ball  small but you can see  the pumpkin you’re smashing is my family. - Candace M. Kelsey 

They say Nora had a good innings. Her life stretched from the rumbling bellies of rationing to the time we were told ‘stay inside’. And how those in-between years were magical: falling in love, dancing until sunrise, raising a family in a house built with her own bare hands. But looking at Nora’s picture, her smile beaming back, blue eyes still sparkling with life, 90 years feels like shortchange. Even 900 wouldn’t have been enough. -- Anna Sanderson  

I am motionless  until I move  I am emotionless until  I explode into a foaming rage at a total stranger in the co-op carpark where my step-daughter  picks my drunk ass up  from the micro-pub  she’s just a whiff of a girl  but she puts me in my place -- J. Archer Avary

Our EIC's rapper alter ego Sara Tonin has released their first EP, Self Care.  Lo-fi and super DIY, Sara Tonin uses Creative Commons beats from the internet to tell morbid tales of mental illness, from pills to panic attacks.  This EP is the first official release from our brother label, Punk Monk Records!  Watch the music video for the single ft Halifax rapper paollo13:  Listen to the full album for free on  Bandcamp .