[{"id":2058,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/tinnitus-by-kalum-glackton\/","name":"tinnitus-by-kalum-glackton","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Tinnitus' by Kalum Glackton","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-01 22:35:48","modifiedDate":"2025-01-28 20:50:18","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-28 20:50:18","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":22},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I woke startled by ringing.\nI knew it would pass, as it did before.\nI remembered the movie\nwith Julianne Moore claiming it\u2019s the final blast\nof a frequency you won\u2019t hear again."},{"id":2082,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/becoming-my-mother-by-tracie-renee-amirante-padal\/","name":"becoming-my-mother-by-tracie-renee-amirante-padal","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Becoming My Mother' by Tracie Renee Amirante Padal","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-03 23:38:35","modifiedDate":"2025-01-03 23:38:37","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-03 23:38:37","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":34},"status":"publish","excerpt":"\u2014it's not so bad, really.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nI remind myself to floss,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\nbuy shoes with arch support,\u00a0\nsleep less and clean more.\u00a0\u00a0\nI'm never caught in the rain\u00a0\u00a0\nbecause my joints ache\u00a0\nwhen clouds gather.\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\nWhen the day bruises me\u00a0\nas days inevitably do, I go home\u00a0\nto quiet rooms without dust.\u00a0\u00a0\nI tell myself,\u00a0There, there.\u00a0"},{"id":2075,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/i-will-stay-alive-by-john-pring\/","name":"i-will-stay-alive-by-john-pring","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'I Will Stay Alive' by John Pring","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:21:03","modifiedDate":"2025-01-03 23:33:05","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-03 23:33:05","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":46},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Because all we have\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is where we came from,\nwind promising to return\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with your name in its throat.\nBecause God never held\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 her face, her steady breath\nlit by small grains\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of silver. Because prayers\ncan be re-written, authored\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and enamelled by the same"},{"id":2071,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/instructions-in-anticipation-of-april-by-lauren-mills\/","name":"instructions-in-anticipation-of-april-by-lauren-mills","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Instructions in Anticipation of April' by Lauren Mills","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:16:58","modifiedDate":"2025-01-03 01:18:28","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:18:28","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":56},"status":"publish","excerpt":"You swear Spring will never come, and then she does. She does,\n\nand you are made a liar.\n\nLovely lady of waking. I know her; good God, I think\n\nI know her. A knight, armor etched with mountain-laurel,\n\ndogwood, blazing stars.\n\nShe\u2019s a good shot, that one, she strikes true. Having turned your back,\n\nyou\u2019ll feel bright arrows burying blossoming deep into your shoulder.\n\nHer bow is new, she\u2019s showing off.\n\nShe\u2019s teasing, you fool.\n\nSo what to do? Now that you\u2019re a liar, and a bleeding one at that.\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019d suggest the following: lie (on the wild grass) and bleed for her.\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lie and grin for her. Then rise and seek a clear cool lake.\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you healed? Are you diving yet?\n\nThis is abstraction. This is tentative pseudo-epiphany. Here\u2019s it simply put:\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 April will drag us both back out to the garden. She loves us.\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love you. I hope for the return."},{"id":2069,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/preponderance-by-zoe-gray\/","name":"preponderance-by-zoe-gray","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'preponderance' by Zoe Gray","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:12:09","modifiedDate":"2025-01-03 01:12:11","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:12:11","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":22},"status":"publish","excerpt":"you make me want to write, she said. you make me want to drive. you make me want to push two fingers up beneath the hard middle chest part and coax my heart out into my palm none too gentle so i can take a look at it. you make me want to kick you, and tear my heart out, and i used to be so afraid of driving.\n\u00a0"},{"id":2067,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/visit-from-my-parents-christmas-2023-by-chris-corlew\/","name":"visit-from-my-parents-christmas-2023-by-chris-corlew","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'VISIT FROM MY PARENTS CHRISTMAS 2023' by Chris Corlew","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:08:08","modifiedDate":"2025-01-03 01:08:10","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:08:10","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":0},"status":"publish","excerpt":"now I am expected to make things happen for others\nensure the kid gets memories like I have of my granddad\nthrowing wadded up wrapping paper at my temple\ninterrupting me reading the back description of NBA Live 97\n\u00a0\nAmericana-ass image of a five-year-old descending stairs in pajamas\nbut it\u2019s the first year we have stairs"},{"id":2065,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/recently-by-gemma-barnett\/","name":"recently-by-gemma-barnett","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Recently' by Gemma Barnett","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:04:10","modifiedDate":"2025-01-03 01:04:12","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:04:12","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":47},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I\u2019ve noticed\n\nthat a clothes hanger\nmotivates shoulders\nand how knees balance a cello.\n\nThat a scruffy pup finds\nthe nap deep in its own tail.\n\nThat a ladder still works\neven if you haven\u2019t opened it properly.\n\nThat a finger gives up its last space to the nail."},{"id":2063,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/reversal-by-debmalya-bandyopadhyay\/","name":"reversal-by-debmalya-bandyopadhyay","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Reversal' by Debmalya Bandyopadhyay","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:00:01","modifiedDate":"2025-01-03 01:00:04","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-03 01:00:04","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":9},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The dream where I turn into your mother\nis unlike any other dream. No one knows who\nreversed the order of our universe, but carrying\nyour milky giggle in my arms, nothing else matters.\nI memorise the tinselled glint of your eyes until\nsomething vaster than our shared alphabet swells up in me.\nYou remind me that love preceded language. That all this"},{"id":2060,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/blue-knife-by-chitra-gurmukh-kalyani\/","name":"blue-knife-by-chitra-gurmukh-kalyani","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Blue Knife' by Chitra Gurmukh Kalyani","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-02 08:18:19","modifiedDate":"2025-01-02 08:18:21","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-02 08:18:21","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":8},"status":"publish","excerpt":"You are the blue knife\nthat cuts hands doing dishes\na memory that sharp"},{"id":2054,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/fourth-anniversary-by-john-pring\/","name":"fourth-anniversary-by-john-pring","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Fourth Anniversary' by John Pring","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-01 22:31:26","modifiedDate":"2025-01-01 22:31:27","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-01 22:31:27","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":29},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The day finds its way \nback to me, summer\u2019s thick\n\nhaze obscuring the distance\nbetween there \t\t\tand here. \n\nName something sharp\n-er to the tongue \n\nthan parting, words \npulled from the wet mouth \n\nlike teeth. \t\tTell me, do you see\nthe flame carving the horizon? \n\nLet me reach it, and find\nyou there, returned."},{"id":2052,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/what-it-might-take-by-damen-obrien\/","name":"what-it-might-take-by-damen-obrien","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'What It Might Take' by Damen O'Brien","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-01 22:27:05","modifiedDate":"2025-01-01 22:27:07","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-01 22:27:07","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":12},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Picture this: two mismatched painters, spattered with the\nblood of a thousand emptied tins, discard their dusty phones,\nreach over the table and clinch, beard to beard, a large couple,"},{"id":2050,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/plunge-by-mykki-rios\/","name":"plunge-by-mykki-rios","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Plunge' by Mykki Rios","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-01-01 22:22:43","modifiedDate":"2025-01-01 22:22:45","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-01-01 22:22:45","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-14\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 14<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":25},"status":"publish","excerpt":"holding hands, under the table\nfrog eggs sequestered\nbeneath a lily pad\n\nwe are in love, quietly\nthe way clear water slips\nover smooth stone"}]