By: Lucy Dhar You can be a soothsayer in my hometown. Every single day is like the last and the coming; the air is just as drowsy as the...

By: Cecil Morris Persephone Goes One Last Time The last time our Persephone left us for the other world, the underworld perpetually dark...

By: Lisa Delan Mom/the middle at the end I borrowed your pain and the pills they sent to subdue the orbit of impotence until gravity...

By: Fran Abrams The Price of Ignorance is paid in a currency of nots. Paid with lives of people who chose not to wear seat belts, decided...

By: Claire Scott Pleeze At seven I wanted a poodle with a rhinestone eye appliqued to a gray felt skirt so I could sashay and spin, all...

By: James Zaferopolos The brook bounding from rock to rock descends The holy mountain with a tinkle, with a chortle, with The hollow echo...

By: Jennifer Joyce Looking out from the jetty, at hidden sand bars, uncertain the hour which they will appear. Molasses-thick moments...

By: Gary Reddin String Theory I You asked me if maybe there were infinite yous scattered across a million timelines your hands softly...

By: Azriel Cervantes I. The feeling you get when a trivial task feasts on your desire to demonstrate societal worth and amplifies your...

By: Kelsey McNeil Change Emerald spiral of spring cracking earth, your bloom unwinds a weighted fan of delicate extension and lace...

By: Jennifer MacBain-Stephens Crash sun’s out my girl and me helmets on ride fast cross streets descend fast ride close handlebars lock...

By: Jacob Reina Tehran Tonight, your palms will handle your brush, Whose bristles will break many black knots. Blonde streaks, born to...

By: Elder Gideon ensconced at school he copied masaccio's expulsion humanized the human ...

By: Gerald Wagoner Connolly's Bar Liberty is stamped above the profile of Noble Savage in feathered headdress on both the liberty nickel...

By: Robert Ronnow Netflix, Hulu Neftlix, Hulu, autumn elaeagnus thorns, small hairy buds, twigs hyper-lenticelled fruits supposedly...

By: Sabrina Herrmann Yesterday the sun was finally thick enough to swim in, as if you could place a boat in it and coast. I want to wear...

By: Julie Benesh Spare me the organ recital such music only decomposes I just want to know how not to be ashamed of my panicula my...

By: Alfred Fournier When You Told Me About Your Garden for Bruce When you told me about your garden, the gloom shading you lifted....

By: Christina Litchfield cheerleader all those fine words you sing beneath the field bleachers where you tease the dirty blonde girls...

By: Eve Kagan the sand refuses to be monochrome here where the dunes meet the sea my body pounds rock pink...

By: HR Harper Loki briefly skims the paperback (meme-bright) Freud, but even with that he begins an after-dinner chat. Loki swims in said...

By: Danielle Selber Secrets for my first son “But what was here BEFORE?” My poor little theologist, scientist, contrarian eyes watering...

By: Olivia Loccisano through gnome’s eyes The first time you called me beautiful I rubbed my skin with pepper I wore pink all my life;...

By: Megan Walter There’s an opening in the sky, i’ve seen it At first it’s blue—the distant type that belongs in horizons and at the...