By: Amanda Leal In the morning, I succumb to the idea that everything must remain as it was when my son left for his dad's house, the...

By: Keith Morris We are a part of this moment As we dance and lift and swirl and touch and I am a part of you and this and we (Blink) As...

By: Lawrence Bridges MEME TRICK The coat of snow above my brow marks, through clouds, my body's mountain. I hold it up with one hand like...

By: Paul Rousseau Check Email. Scroll Twitter. Feed the dog. Check email. Scroll Twitter. 2000 deaths. Listen for sirens. Drink two cups...

By: Zac Kline We say to children: Don’t do that or you’re going to get hurt. If you get hurt, you’ll have to go to the hospital. You...

By: Matthew Daley you took African American studies but don’t have to recount quotes from the texts on the syllabus and if she is...

By: Anthony Aguero His Name So I asked him to come over. I had been reading all day and Crying because none of the pages Said his name....

By: Angela Rebrec The Anti-Parable of God’s Field Notes After much thought and pencil chewing God scribbles an entry into His field...

By: Bruce Arlen Wasserman 66 The flakes emerged from rocks tumbled in winter avalanches that show in the salt of summer like yesterday’s...

By: Phoebe Greer The Cat’s Meow You live to desire, remember? Curious the orange deaf night, where sunlight dies Your dog dreams that...

By: L.R.Berger Sheila’s Marginalia After she died, the books that were her friends went home with her friends. I buckled mine into the...

By: Paul Willis (Pinus lambertiana) Sun in the top of a sugar pine, first taste of a May morning. Limbs reach out as if to touch the...

By: Lee Broda lost souls, half alive, an ouroboros, history haunting itself: six million bodies, dust; I’ve inherited all the ashes of...

By: Steve Henn “My backyard birds sound better than your backyard birds” my brother posted on Facedump what I wanted to comment (but...

By: Josh Feit I. On March 23, 2020, the governor issued a proclamation directing all residents, except “Essential Workers," to...

By: Constance Bacchus the sun is parading, painting shadows through fields of hay sitting w/each tree stretching ready for heat & the sky...

By: Margaux Novak There’s something about running towards the sea at night. Low tide, the waves still far off. sand cold on my bare feet,...

By: Lyall Harris Contract nice to meet you too you swooningly handsome smart creative Italian whose parents are dear and adore me your...

By: Jesse Wolfe We drove north, up the 101, toward Napa. That day was incredibly beautiful, like this one—maybe I confuse the two. She...

By: Jesse Wolfe At a certain point you have to stop running— you cannot outpace the whistling bombs, wavelengths shortening as they...

By: Roger Iverson I haven’t been to the Ocean Crest Resort since I bought rounds for former brothers-in-law. We sat in summer’s sun on...

By: Andy Kerstetter On a foggy May morning, the only thing that holds our fourth-grade focus on this field trip to the first oil well is...

By: Yavaria Ryan I love this juicy stomach and all the flabs, and yes I used to have abs but that don’t matter now. I have aged and...

By: Joanna Acevedo Say you want me. Say there is a time and a place for everything. Say you need me. Say the sun sets in the West. Say...