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Jun 20, 20221 min read
Hansel & Gretal - Emma Wells
Pear drops of happiness hang: are sugared lanterns of night dripping nectar sweetness - a honeybee’s glowing warmth awaits each...
Jun 14, 20221 min read
The House on Southampton Drive - Oanh Nguyen
Just like our house in Saigon there is a table and a mirror by the front door. For a mirror facing the door would reflect all the good...
Jun 12, 20221 min read
The Morning After - Olivia Klein
I wake with frosted breath under an unfamiliar armpit. A foot I think is mine pretzels with Mystery Mans replaying last night’s memories...
Jun 10, 20221 min read
hands dosed in melatonin - Ellie Wardman
the transcendence commences as the hands of my heart pull me closer within, a mother clutching her newborn baby. her fingers fighting...
Jun 6, 20222 min read
Debridement - Christin Karr
It was the middle of a cold winter. My big bay horse, Atlas, blew out a breath when he saw me, fogging the air around his nose. My gloved...
Jun 2, 20222 min read
Small But Heavy - Simone Liggins
Icon that clashes with current image for the masses, a mass of love and flesh and wisdom and power clasped between fingers of true...
May 31, 20222 min read
Narrow Path No Longer - Christopher Girardi
The path stretches on and on, never seeming to end. All in sight are trees and remnants of ruin in a present I no longer recognize. Piles...
May 29, 20221 min read
Cardinal - Kristin Howe
wander to the high chasm to where you hear it floating to where the great river border moves where winter is washing the old forest’s...
May 25, 20221 min read
Trapped In The Mirror - Sarah L. Luther
Men don’t like an angry woman Women can be somewhat reflections of men And as women We must smile to reflect on the men that they’ve done...
May 23, 20221 min read
frostbitten persimmons - Magdalena Harlow
today, a beautiful boy told me how he loves fruit. he smiles, as he describes to me how he digs his pearl shovels into its soft, pinkened...
May 17, 20222 min read
Freihe(it) - Connie Louise Rigby
When (it) first came to me I was tentative and I felt I would be shouted at for having pure but wreckless fun I was nervous at every man...
May 13, 20221 min read
The Picture - Megan Kiffiak
When I took the picture of my parents, I thought everything was fine. We were happy and we were a family. I guess I was wrong. A year...
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