ISSUE 10
OLIVIA MADELINE ABIGAIL
NEVADA-JANE ARLOW
MEG CASS
PEARL-HILL FREEDLAND
RHIENNA RENÉE GUEDRY
SG HUERTA
SILAS JONES
HANTA T. SAMSA
MAIA G VILEYA
VERONICA WASSON
Real Feel: 111 Fahrenheit
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after Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me”
it’s only 105 out
so I cave, step out
to memorialize someone
i’d rather forget.
it’ll be 108 next
thursday. the world blazes
and i burn. born into
dysfunction, nothing
shocks me. the state,
my dad, the climate,
myself… all have
tried and failed, yet
it’s so hard to celebrate
with half my body
in the ground.Texan Sonnet
After Wanda Coleman’s “American Sonnet 60” and Eileen Myles’ “Texas”
texas not just desert & cowboys but
oil to pay for college wind power
in the south plains & churches abound
stadiums & god & hurricanes displace
texans buc-ee’s to save whataburger
to feed texas stars at night so big &
bright when the winter storm cuts the
lights & families pulled over on the highway
snap bluebonnet photos bits of busted
tire guns on the billboards ballots bars trucks
schools teaching texas history not really
not the story of half the state Black & brown
people made this state queer & trans people in
texas summers burning & burning & burn
SG Huerta is a queer Xicanx writer from Dallas. They are the Poetry Editor of Abode Press, and the author of two poetry chapbooks and the forthcoming nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF (fifth wheel press, 2025). Their work has appeared in Honey Literary, The Offing, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere. They write about trans/literary things in their newsletter, trans poetica. Find them at sghuertawriting.com or in central Texas with their partner and cats.