"Old Titans" by Larissa Monique Hauck

Ode To Dawn & The Coffee Jug by Olumide Manuel

i like how my coffee tastes like loneliness.
the irredeemable kind. i'm poetic enough
to believe the moon sits with me sometimes—
in the saucer; on the desk; the onion layers
of internet tabs; the view leaking across
the patio when the morning is still a yoke
of nightly bodies —two wounded moons
inside my head howling to their eastern cousin
and how quiet is the call? it cannot break the trick
of the coffee, it cannot break the smile slopping
at the wound of the dawn. i'm right there
scrapping at the callus of rest; longing after the fractals
of wholeness beside the lip of my glass jug.

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Olumide Manuel is a Pushcart-nominated poet, an environmentalist, and a biology teacher from Nigeria. His poetry has been published/forthcoming in Twyckenham Notes, Feral Poetry, Uncanny Magazine, Agbowó Magazine, Magma Poetry, Sandstorm Journal, Sublunary Review, Ice Floe Press, Club Plum Literary Journal, ARTmosterrific Journal, Gigantic Sequins, Isele Magazine, Muse Pie Press, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere. He tweets @Olu_midemanuel

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Larissa Monique Hauck is a queer visual artist who graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2014, where she received a BFA with Distinction. Her artwork has been featured in multiple regional and national group exhibitions as well as a growing number of international exhibitions. She has been selected for inclusion in events such as Nextfest 2018 (Edmonton, AB), Nuit Rose 2016 (Toronto, ON), and the 9th Annual New York City Poetry Festival 2019 (New York, US). Her drawings and paintings have also been featured in publications such as Creative Quarterly (US), Wotisart Magazine (UK), Minerva Rising (US), and various others.