beestung

"Yet, I am not dead. I am still here. And my organs still demand the most political of sensations. A writer wrote that writing is like inviting someone in between your spread legs." —Claire Star Finch tr. Sam Nartus-Fois https://beestungmag.com/issue26/one-translation-of-claire-star-finch-by-sam-nartus-fois/

"drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name" —Lichen https://beestungmag.com/issue26/one-comic-by-lichen-2/

"...I like to be squished during sex and not during sex. Let me pluck your eyebrows. When we pass mile marker 35 I get hungry for pickled okra" —E.K. Bartlett https://beestungmag.com/issue26/one-poem-by-e-k-bartlett/

"I have met people who would eat my soul right in front of me, not from spite But because there’s a reverence in consuming a person in front of them" —Lucy Jones https://beestungmag.com/issue26/one-poem-by-lucy-jones/

"I’m going to go ahead and say it; my memorial is tacky. Tacky to me. Ill-considered to those who knew me. Forgettable to passersby." —Grey Traynor https://beestungmag.com/issue26/one-story-by-grey-traynor/

"I've made love to men in the oddest of places. I’ve made love to women who snort at the term “making love.” My body echoed back at me from most of their lips." —Sandra Alland https://beestungmag.com/issue26/one-story-by-sandra-alland/

"each factory runs right up until the weather halts it. sometimes the people are the weather." —robin herold https://beestungmag.com/issue26/two-poems-by-robin-herold/

"There is no place to flee. I am here for the duration I say heart is heavy, angel of death all around no wonder so many hearts just stopped this week" —Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha https://beestungmag.com/issue25/one-poem-by-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/

"Sharing my little, teal hormone tablets with the trans girl who spent the night was a communion infinitely more holy" —Willow Sipling https://beestungmag.com/issue25/one-poem-by-willow-sipling/

"The nature of my problem: fashioning my ruin into a spectacle. I am afraid I have fallen in love with myself." Read "The Phoenix Speaks" by Sheila Dong https://beestungmag.com/issue06/two-poems-by-sheila-dong/

"I was all mare, fawn, & galloped stallion setting our fields ablaze, wild with want" —Michal ‘MJ’ Jones https://beestungmag.com/issue25/two-poems-by-michal-mj-jones/

"Can another supersede my relation to my own pain by surpassing it in intensity?" —Ethan Fortuna https://beestungmag.com/issue19/one-hybrid-by-ethan-fortuna/

“They made me and dissected me and sold me for ¥68 a ticket to college girls who all come with best friends and cups of boba tea.” —Yufan Lu https://beestungmag.com/issue25/two-poems-by-yufan-lu/

"EVERY DAY MORE OF THE PEOPLE I LOVE TELL ME THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO KEEP STAYING ALIVE. I TELL THEM THAT IT IS POSSIBLE." —Nora Hikari https://beestungmag.com/issue18/two-poems-by-nora-hikari/

"I cannibalized pleasure. Mylar desire painted my Dark roots red and waited. I persisted In the angle between her lashes’ shadows And the fading bruise underneath." —Dylan McNulty-Holmes https://beestungmag.com/issue25/one-poem-by-dylan-mcnulty-holmes/

“disremember all the tonguesick paradigms / paradise a walled lotus-garden / utopia / which means nothing of heaven / its root of sky / ceiling / boundary / limit” —Leon Barros https://beestungmag.com/issue10/one-poem-by-leon-barros/