This selection is paired with Book 21 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. To end my life with the ending of my life, I record that I returned to him in January. The month doesn’t matter. Ten years is what matters. Ten years of living with strangers.Continue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 12 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. In the twelfth century B.C.E., Odysseus sacked Troy and turned his eyes, thoughts and footsteps toward Ithaca and home. But having bested and blinded Polyphemus in the ninth book with a stake of woodContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 12 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. I am the mouth that swallowed your ships and ate your men. They are dead inside of me. You are the only one left, and if you let go of the root you areContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 11 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. If the world is wide and spinning. You could get a glass, highball, lowball, or rocks. Pick it up. Look through it. See your future. Fill it with tequila, the silver. Now take aContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 10 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. Old windbag, always warning. What harm can come to us while the west wind strums melodies on the zither of the sails? Kings may grow wise wandering the way of the mind, but notContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. The petals of the Lotus plant are sweet like Creten honey or a pink rose of frosting. And it is true, we who suck its bloom have no desire for home. But to sayContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 5 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. Why do I smell hyacinth on the night air— black upon rising black, ruthless thrum my aching elbow slipping from splintered plank this is the end and yet I lash the sea, ever-deep, asContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 4 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. After the mining methods advanced, the delta changed colors: yellows, chartreuses, coppers, even sick blues all running down the hills and stagnating in the mud. The change confuses the snow geese—they swoop over theContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 3 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. This water will never forgive you. You may be able to rise from it but you will never be clean. You will always notice bits of kelp on the pillow of her bed inContinue Reading…

This selection is paired with Book 2 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. my friend and I were talking about our online dating experiences and he asked me what I was looking for in a man and I said, I am waiting on Odysseus, and he couldn’tContinue Reading…