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Irish literary magazine celebrating the arts, sciences, and the humanities. LGBT+ run Issue 4 is out now! https://metachrosislitmag.com/ https://ko-fi.com/metachrosismagazine

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hi, we have a Ko-Fi page now if anyone wants to help out. Since we don't charge submission fees and keep our digital issues open-access, it's the best way to support us if you're not looking for a print issue of the magazine. ☕😄
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Metachrosis Literary Magazine

A magazine dedicated to the arts, sciences and humanities

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · 1d

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'Side Effects of Bipolar Radiofrequency Devices for Facial Skin Rejuvenation' by Danielle Altman! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

Side Effects of Bipolar Radiofrequency Devices for Facial Skin Rejuvenation
Danielle Altman

Modification in protocols
have also improved
patient comfort
and rare events
such as burns

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · 9d

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'Turner Prints' by Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #nonfiction

Turner Prints
Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya

Atypical flamingos and egrets emerged in them (from them). Transparently dense landscapes, aquatic leaves, palm trees, flowerings revealed a succulent, elemental, oneiric nature. Elegance. Libido. Infinitude, a suggestion of flesh: the appearance of liquid, supraconscious lives, almost extinct.

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · 13d

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Animalculum by @allgumsblazing.bsky.social ! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art

Animalculum,
Alan Murphy, Digital Photograph.

Below is an image of a gray surface with orange patterns that resemble stains. The orange pattern vary in size and shape, though all are circular. They splay out across the length of the image. On the right hand side is a small white rectangle. The rectangle is roughly half the width of the image and is in the mid-ground. In this white rectangle are horizontal lines that flow and diver in a number of different ways and are different colours, all the lines are thin. The image is surrounded by a thin black border.

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · 17d

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'A Winning Game', by Soledad Santana! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

A Winning Game
Soledad Santana

2. Your humid eye observes me
from the counter, stickied with ritual.

3. The fat green flies approach;
You have no hands with which to swat them away.

4. The men take their seats at the table, their trouser hems stained
with rooster blood, whiskey, and cum.

5. You’ll slosh in my uncle’s stomach, become
the tissue lining his fat throat

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · 21d

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'Convection (Victory) Columns', by Ross McDiarmid! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

Convection (Victory) Columns
Ross McDiarmid

Joys rebound as off glass; ceilins
ay sheer aether keep them. Below –
knee-deep – in thought, a figure gains
weight fie graven mass. Gravity –
What force! – burdens their mien. So fraught,
Homo Spiritualis waits
’twixt, neither plume, nor swoon – for fate,
like the stars, exceeds. Their prayers

Alongside the verse in an arrow pointing down, indicating the order in which the words are read.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22d

‘David Lynch’s idiom is so personal that it is sometimes easy to forget that he relied on the storehouse of Gothic tropes – doppelgängers, omens, missing limbs – and an established cinematic grammar of suspense.’

Ruby Hamilton on the director: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ruby Hamilton · Things go kerflooey: David Lynch’s Gee-Wizardry

David Lynch’s films seemed to come out of nowhere. That’s what he said, anyway. Ideas were ‘little gifts …...

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 23d

Still time to submit!

Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Never A Rose Submission Call is now open! This issue is for Irish poets and poets based on the island of Ireland plus Irish/International visual artists. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info!

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · 25d

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Household Routine #16', by Vincent Louis Stokes! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art

Household Routine #16,
Vincent Louis Stokes, Pencil on Paper.
Below is a pencil drawing on undyed paper with large blank borders. The image depicts a man with slightly exaggerated features looking over his shoulder and making eye contact with the viewer. He is sitting on a chair and drawing an infant's face alongside some loose sketches. In the background is a clock and several photos hung on the wall above a desk. There is also a large whiteboard with children's drawings, a calendar, and a message that reads "Have A Lovely Time Vincent xxx".
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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · 29d

Just popped down to @salmonpoetry.bsky.social in Ennistymon to drop off some copies of metachrosis. Looking great amongst the tresure trove of poetry. #litmag #literarymagazine

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 5

#FF It’s Mullets for Mental Health Month. To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “M” (and grow your mullet)!
@matteristbooks.bsky.social
@memezine.bsky.social
@metachrosislitmag.bsky.social
@mgliterary.bsky.social
Cont ⬇️

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Dead Leaves 5', by Naoual Peleau! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art

Dead Leaves 5,
Naoual Peleau, Anthotype on Linden Leaves.

Beneath is an image composed of multiple dried leaves. There are four overlapping leaves of varying shades of brown, red, and green. The image of a nude figure is printed in the natural colours of the leaves.

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

icymi: we're open!

Duosuma @duosuma.com · Sep 1

effervescent Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for effervescent: all genres. #CallforSubmissions

Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: effervescent Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐

effervescent Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for effervescent: all genres. #CallforSubmissions

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Freshly printed poetry smells so good. 😤😤😤 @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social

A print literary magazine entitled Metachrosis featuring a painting of a girl squatting over a plate with a butter knife and a jar of jam.

A glimpse of the inside of Metachrosis literary magazine, showing the title of a poem “Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive” by Stephen Brown.

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment of 'Mercury Dusk', by Maureen Alsop! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

Mercury Dusk
Maureen Alsop

I wade into Summer’s body — I wade
into the river basin & broken bottles —
my legs numb with sleep. We speak through tides
into the sun’s hazard—

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'I Hear You Cindy (The Sherman) by Goran Tomic! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art #collage

I Hear You Cindy (The Sherman),
Goran Tomic, Collage.

Below is a collage image, which depicts figures and objects across a colourful, geometric composition. The layout resembles a series of windows. The collage is primarily made from vintage-style images.

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hi, Just announcing that we're going to be pausing US orders on our website for the time being. All of our contributors will receive their copies, and any outstanding orders will be processed. I hope we can continue to send free print copies to our US contributors, but we'll see how it goes.

Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Aug 24

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment of 'Bog (The Ending)', by Eden Chicken! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

Bog (The Ending)
Eden Chicken

feel self absorb bog feel self sog feel self
hair from skin sog nail from skin bog gnaw
skin to fat all damp feel fat absorb bog all
not bloat not burst but erode as soak as
feel muscle drench as absorb bog drench
until leak until bog feel wet feel bog as
muscle to nerve no eye no spit no breath

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Confluence 1 Decline and Segments', by Fernanda Morales Tovar! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art

Confluence 1 Decline and Segments, Fernanda Morales Tovar, Oil on canvas.

Below is a painting of eleven people, painted in greyscale against a brightly coloured landscape. They stand on a bank of industrial metal, working rods in a tumultuous pool of water. The metal walkway is depicted in hues of orange, while the water and embankment are shown in bright blue, green, and purple.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · Aug 16

The U.S. spent over $100 billion on contractors in Afghanistan. Where did the money go? Two books reveal, in different ways, the waste and corruption of America’s military in the twenty-first century.

Pipe Hitters | Grayson Scott

American special operators brought their tactics in the global war on terror back home.

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Aug 16

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Larking', by John Mackey! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #prose

Larking
John Mackey

The cautery of debauchery was enough to stop infection, but we never healed. We seldom talked about anything real. Suspended in surface level joyousness, we rarely drew breath and dove to any depth. Like children building a fort out of wooden crates, only to watch it rot in the weather.

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is ' Thief (Inspired by a Michał Grochowiak photograph)', by Linn Hansen! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art

Thief (Inspired by a Michał Grochowiak photograph), Linn Hansen, fineliner on watercolour paper.
Beneath is a drawing of a fly under a glass, the drawing is done in black-and-white in a pointillist style. The fly and and glass are on a plain white table.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · Aug 11

From our friends at @noaa.gov Office of National Marine Sanctuaries:

A new study led by scientists with Scripps Oceanography, NOAA, @mbarinews.bsky.social & the US Navy reveals how fish in West Coast sanctuaries “share” the soundscape.

These insights help managers protect vital habitats.

Undersea Conversations: How Fish Keep The Peace in a Noisy Ocean

How do fish communicate in a noisy ocean? A new NOAA-supported study analyzed 18 years of recordings to map the 'who, when, and where' of fish chorusing in three national marine sanctuaries in Califor...

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Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Gazelle', by Richard Oyama! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

Gazelle
Richard Oyama

Swaddled Bedouins extend palms. Ahead is
A dead man, eyes fixed on eternities.

A ziggurat fingers the sky.

We decamp in a palace’s thousand rooms.

Chandeliers glitter in the squawk of laptops.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · Aug 4

“How can you tell an epiphany from a breakdown? The truth—as so many saints’ lives show (Teresa of Avila; Dymphna)—is that you can’t.”

More Than a Feeling | Stephanie Burt

Gods—especially Pan—seek worshippers; most gods want more than one.

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · Aug 5

From medicinal paper sheets printed with saints’ icons to the dust of earthenware Madonna figures, eating physical images was once seen as an act of piety, explains Tim Smith-Laing

When a picture looks good enough to eat

This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read

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