Author: Sumac Lit Mag
Issue 1 (25) Issue 1 Poetry (14) Issue 1 Prose (11) Issue 2 (25) Issue 2 Poetry (19) Issue 2 Short Story (6) Issue 3 (31) Issue 3 Poetry (21) Issue 3 Prose (10) Issue 4 (25) Issue 4 Poetry (13) Issue 4 Prose (11) Letter from the Editors (4) News (1) Poetry (66) Prose (32) Short Story (6)
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Falling Behind
I am full of cracks; fissures in my palms dry and ragged, revealing the rot blooming beneath my skin When I try to grasp…
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The Robot
The Robot is a perfect machine. It has to be. It works to surpass its limited programming. The Robot strives to exceed expectations at…
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Letters to Milena
“I hardly remember the details, just that we kept on merging into one another, I was you, you were me.” Franz Kafka, Letters to…
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Cloud Nine
Do you remember the summer we first met? We found clear silicone tubes in the forest by the playground and brought them home with…
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A comfortable place in the unconscious
Can one dream while lying awake? This proximity of cloud. Consensus, the end of parenthetical. Draws curtains, threat. This pragmatism: my mother gave birth…
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A Yellow Carnation
A month ago / my boyfriend gave me a carnation / I didn’t want it / but now I’m stuck with it // At…
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In the Weeds
I met you on a Tuesday / Lost in the woods / And your dandelion-seed touch / Set my worried mind free / While…
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Mannequin at the Thrift Store
I found a mannequin at the thrift store today. She was tucked in between a box of junk and a ratty old sweater, only…
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Thirst
A Microsoft 365 subscription costs 179 dollarydoos, equating 15 / pints per annum. Therefore, you should stay / on mine, even though I’m more…
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Wet Gore
One must imagine, the Kayal that flows to the sea, / to be pristine, to be untouched. / Allowed to be. / but we wade,…