Issue Ten

In this decade special, the mammals prepare a lavish banquet of fungi and silken oysters. Welcome to the party. Let’s dress up in the fins of deep-sea fishes and find a fancy photobooth that snaps our pearly auras. Here enemies turn to lovers, kisses are stolen in locker rooms and soldiers reach for each other in their tents. In ten years of Sweet Mammalian it’s not all saccharine – piss rains down, lottery winners grow paranoid, and gloved hands palpate the innards of defrosted possums. We don’t even talk about what happened at the water tower. In wolflike pubescence, we may attain beach bodies or curl back into the shapes of embryos or whales. Come sit with us in the hot pool, a coven of poets cupped in cedar, this ever darkening water studded with stars.