Issue 7

Kiss by Jim Fuess                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Sunspots                                                                               for Katarina                                                                            she told me                                                                            that she first felt                                                                            the cancer inside of her                                                                            when she laughed                                                                             she said the tumors                                                                            looked like                                                                            sunspots when x-rayed                                                                             when I heard that                                                                            I felt a breakage                                                                            all the way down                                                                            deep inside                                                                             yet somehow                                                                            her eyes                                                                             still smiled                                                                             when we kissed                                                                            I could taste                                                                             her sickness                                                                             one night                                                                            I commented                                                                            on her naked body                                                                            while […]