Trees are green with drought - Nick Vasquez
Dust clings to shoes pleading to be elsewhere. Still foliage in calm wind and icy water evaporate from lonely cairns of stone. Mist hazes...
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Aug 22, 20231 min read
Pincushion Heart - Aidan Derrico
My heart is that little red tomato On my grandmother’s side table, From which I delighted in Pulling out and pushing in Yellow-headed...
Aug 20, 20231 min read
Look at This Little Life - Kait Quinn
Every day is the same. Every day sunlight and the cat's hoarse pleas spill through the crack beneath the bedroom door, pool...
Aug 18, 20231 min read
Not Getting the Nobel - Lina Buividavičiūtė
Today I’m sitting in front of my psychotherapist and crying in all earnestness because I’m not getting the Nobel. Forget that – I don’t...
Aug 14, 20231 min read
A big word for a woman - Ana Neu
My love doesn’t speak, She’s quiet with the door open. And breathes when it's not. My love waits for me, Like the cross on Sunday’s. A...
Aug 10, 20231 min read
A Goodbye Letter - Kiara Nicole Letcher
I wield stories in my body like so many knives on a butcher’s block I am chilly and distant but also lush and abundant mercurial...
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Route 2 - Lucy Angell Anderson
Maybe you think I’m beautiful because it’s autumn. Everything looks gorgeous when bathed in honeyed light. Your hand cradles the clutch...
Aug 2, 20231 min read
A Poem for Clara - Kate Phillips
I see your lips close around words of worlds of wisdom, and suck on the history of Neverland and papaya meadow politics, slurping at the...
Jul 29, 20231 min read
Maybe I Could Have Breathed - Steph Scott
If I had known when I was thirteen instead of hiding behind a door of shame maybe I could have breathed I think I may have even dreamed...
Jul 25, 20231 min read
Mania, My Mistress - Alesa Bernat
Mania, my mistress - I hide you away from prying eyes lie awake, agitated, unsated you leave me wane and wanting Mania, my mistress - You...
Jul 23, 20231 min read
Blessed - Eben Ormston
Arms around her knees nestled back against me. I lean a little to my left to better see her silhouette fair and freckled long blond hair...
Jul 21, 20231 min read
Breathe - Raymond Hoffman
Never bit like the rest of them Shoved unwarranted expectations Only clinging to myself The pressure encompassing Kettle to pop right...
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