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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The Devil’s Deal
“Please, Miss? Can you help me?” The girl is quite ill; that much is obvious. Such a little thing—she couldn’t be more than seven…
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The Other Side of Your Chest
I place my head carefully / and a thousand acres of zaatar / descend with me. / Here there’s a reservoir / of soil…
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The Peephole
I can hear the distant sputtering of the generator shutting down through the shabby wooden walls of the outhouse. The hazy yellow beam slowly…
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Homo scriptor
Observe! The writer in their natural habitat // cacophonous cafés, claustrophobic bookshelf crevasses, / a modest desk under the waning moon // Don’t disturb…
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Clean Boost
After Emily and I make our patio promise, she sends me off with her guitarist, Jimmy. He has nothing planned today and, despite his…
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HUNGER
A chocolate sprite caressed my tongue / And told me, in a voice high-strung, / Yet whispered, like a lover, / To please indulge…
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MY PHONE THINKS I LIVE IN MONTREAL
streetlights poison the evening sky, orange blood blooms in the greywater blue. nobody turns and gawks these days. every conceivable crime caught on film,…
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Smoothie
I get one of those big industrial blenders / and I start tossing in / pineapple / and yogurt / and honey / and…
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the shape of you, in a prayer between my lips
Did you know that a synonym for passion is agony? / Because to love is to know the stretch of pain. / Your fingertips…
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The walls are thin
I dream of predictable shapes / and tessellate my house with floor tiles curving up walls / roof slates overlapping / and windows positioned…