suppose your father were a birdroosting on a telephone wire, betweendirty tennis shoes knotted at the tongues.a bird, not a butterfly like the band-aidon the bite marks of industrial staplesin bare baby feet, but a beady-eyed birdwatching pretzel stick cigarettes pluckedfrom a refurbished crayon box, breakfastpastries trailing fairy tail crumbs throughthe cherry sweet stench of…
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Jerico Lenk
Lover of oversized sweaters, Kodak disposables, and terrorizing traditional American masculinity, Lenk is an undergraduate studying Creative Writing, Western European and Russian History, and Classics. He is the recipient of the 2017 Bettye Newman Poetry Award and finalist in a number of other competitions. His work can be found in Obsidian 43.2 and USF Tampa’s Thread Literary Inquiry vols. 10 and 11. His debut novel, The Missing, a YA paranormal/ lgbtq+ with Month 9 Books, has been nominated for the Walter Dean Myers Award 2018 and requested by the ALA/GLBTRT Stonewall Youth Committee.
Arthur Asa
Arthur was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He studied graphic design and industrial design but decided to leave everything behind and become a construction worker. During this time he discovered all he ever wanted to do was draw and tell stories. He is now an illustrator by afternoon and a comic artist by night—sometimes both by night. He has a comic called Where the Heart Is that you can find online.
