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...

By: Lissa Batista A Portrait of My Mother I’ve tried to keep betta fish twice. Their beauty in the blue prisms of their scales, gulping...

By: George Burns -Schrödinger’s cat in a box is a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox in quantum mechanics that any two quantum...

By: Tim Stiles My boy, Art, was a drug fiend before you thought that was funny: You would be jerked from sleep by wood-scrape-wood...