My Younger Self My Wound | Izze Goldberg
After Natalie Diaz She was calling for me in the night-light-free bedroom the one she spends most of her time in. When they came to her...
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Jun 292 min read
Shosholoza | Blake Harrsch
The engines. The buses. The bustle. A December Monday with students eager to be released. Above, snowflakes eager to erupt. Like candy in...
Jun 261 min read
Strawberry Acai | Sara Thompson
I take a sip of bright pink, speckled with seeds, it’s sweet taste prickling against my tongue, and I am reminded of our freckled noses....
Jun 231 min read
poem in which my body and I are toxic lovers | Selena Zhang
she wonders if I would love her were she ugly; ravished in a fire/gored by wild hounds/broken in half to protect me, I find myself unable...
Jun 172 min read
Temperance | Amanda Myrtakis
On the second and final date, I help you fold your laundry. You ask me if I’ve ever worked retail, because I’m impressively good at this,...
Jun 141 min read
Green Is My Favorite Color but Brighter Than You’d Think | Savanna Frances Grinspun
every woman wants to own a bookstore café by the beach emergency exit the market saturation of a dream in which everything is everything...
Jun 51 min read
I surely deserve it | Ursula Shepherd
A long languid breakfast pancakes with sausages blueberries dripping in honey-rich syrup oh, I surely deserve it — luscious black coffee...
Jun 21 min read
In the beginning, she was very old | Bianca Pina
She carried her mother's pain as a dolly stroking its face, whispering hush in its ear. She unclipped her purse and emptied handfuls of...
May 301 min read
Problem Solving | Hannah Page
As a shell-shocked shell-shaped whorl of a girl, I rock forward into your arms like falling off something, a logor a jigger filled with...
May 241 min read
Chew on that, why don’t you? | Kristen Bales
I roll your indecency on my tongue. Like a wad of gum. Something to chew on, And then spit out. But the aftertaste, Fresh and stinging as...
May 212 min read
Too Young | Lex Marie
They like to tell me I’m too young to sit with them at dinnertime I’m seventeen — grouped with kids who crack suicide jokes and laugh...
May 153 min read
The Griffin | Kara Melissa
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle;...
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