Issue 24 is Live

Flock 24 is Live!

New work by Leah Browning, Eric Boyd, Laura Desiano, Kelly DuMar, Stephen Gibson, Sarah Giragosian, Jen Schalliol Huang, Yasmin Mariam Kloth, and more.

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Browning - Scents/Cents/Sense

There was the smell of the rain. (The smell of the chocolate, the warm fabric.)

Even after she died, she could still remember them.
— Leah Browning

Uheida - Prelude

I lit all the candles/ felt nocturnal as space/ feasted my eyelashes on the wishes they could make/ with all this eyesight/ all this abundancy of breathing
—Sarah Uheida

Bai - Writing with Blood

Remind her of a poem—five characters per line, four lines—and blood will rush to her mouth like a river to sea.
— Catherine Bai

Tolan - Rena

The women sat in a semi-circle around Rena like an unorganized Greek chorus. Chairs of various kinds flanked the bed. ... I went from chair to chair, kissing each woman hello and collecting compliments like candy at Halloween.
—Denise Tolan

Lopez Smith - Dirt

The morning hen poop is thick and gooey, and for me, shit sweeping is my daily reminder, as a rabbi advised centuries ago, to carry a paper in one pocket that says: I am but dust and ashes.
—Lisa López Smith

Yasmin Kloth - Ashes

Each year the bones of my ancestors / turn more brittle and gray. / I think how so many must be buried / in the shade of cedar trees. Others, in reeds by the Nile.
—Yasmin Mariam Kloth

Rusudan Khizanishvili

Interview and Gallery

Anna Lena - Inner Room

Abate. Treat me. Adorn me, / lightly: salt, crimson, /
a quarter of the sky
—Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Eli Karren - Safe Search

at what point do I stop looking back / wishing I’d known better?
—Eli Karren

Rose Banks - 3 Days Notice

When the interviewer asks if there is any other place you can go, you’ll say no while biting down the excuses your godmother made up for not taking you in.
—Rose Banks

Amy Jarvis -- Architecture

what has our tongue? / what has our tongue that this river don’t?
—Henry Goldkamp