Stardust Review
Literary Magzine within the Stars

last day on the gulch the cat looked at me and chewed predictable non-response the old war of everything against everyone this is by...

Aphasia, the quiet thief,  pilfers her words, leaving only  shadows. She grapples to find the fitting,  lost in a void. Her language,...

you unhook your tether and i drift away   into vast blank space no oxygen to say   the heart is a racecar revving high RPM   i can't feel...

We pose as if already on exhibit, locked in the frame. We are breathless proof—too two dimensional. We are slick with sweat sliding down...

Sometimes, every once in a while in my fleeting moments of consciousness, I wish I were born a dragonfly. I know nothing of their life...

The Earth’s two greatest beings are kindred kings, exceptions          one grazing without hooves          one breathing without gills...

In our father's house A painting of the Virgin hangs Quiet and lopsided Above the hole where fist met wall. Zach Zajac is a writer/failed...

Amber coat my spine, drip into strands of dark brown hair, wash my mind, excavate dark thoughts caught in cobwebs, seep into bone white...

I’ve given up the coffee and the clatter, The newspapers on poles, the measured chatter, Where one receives, upon discreet request, A pen...

can you see that orb sitting atop May’s spiderwort, a mobile moved by midnight slowly slowly, slowly sailing from dusk to sunrise, a...

I have known you Like a mountain knows the sky. Together we are touch and spine And no star has been on fire Nor has a river cried For as...

Blooming star, ancient beacon of beyond, burning years upon centuries ago, shining down and arriving now, soon or sooner to be gone. Soon...

Because the night was cold, we could see more of the stars through the veil of refinery haze and we nestled each other in blankets you...

I became that jilted, purple Mediterranean Avenue, (Cheap and unwanted).

i. Jars of dust sit atop my shelves, remains of burnt stars, fallen stars, stolen from the sky, taken down from their rooftop stage, left...

have you ever wanted to go to outer space? as a child, i used to imagine what it’d be like to be an astronaut floating, unafraid of...

~After Kandinsky’s Around the Circle The all-seeing eye is drawn ever to the city like a bird with a rutter at sea in the celestial...

Your self-torn life, drawn to paint. A narrow sunlit wooden room where all a man need do is lie upon his single bed beneath the...

Fallen clouds Giddy Dizzy A shaken up soda People pushing Hoping for confetti Soft voice like a girl Abuse like artillery Deplorable...

I’m stuck Born pigeon toed With a stutter OCD—hands bleed Life a tripwire I’m a glasshouse to be peeked in Depressed at 16 Given a SSRI...