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by Ellen Webre I have spent a thousand yearspicking myself out of the middle of nowhere on an empty highway clutching fistfuls of fireflies to my eyes clawing poppy blossoms across a belly full of rabbits I dripped with peppercorns I salted the earth as if that would make the mud easier to swallow I buried the creaturesContinue reading “Almond Blossom”

by Lihi Z The voice spills / Over the telephone / Time morphed into frequency / And back again / A compression of sentiment / Unraveled by longing / It says: ‘hiiiii’ A conversation about nothing is spoken / The day’s errands / The planned social respite / A desire to lay roots too soonContinue reading “Fourier”

by Kai River Blevins after Jacqui Germain Tells me that I’ve spent enough timeantagonizing him, corrupting his divinename, condemning the thinly veiled violencein his bones. He demands that I forgivehis unrelenting presence,forbids me from saying all that I’ve learned about him – like Man is the aftertaste of disgusted stares. or Man comes alive whenContinue reading “Man Gets Tired of Being in the Spotlight”

by Julia Pileggi In the morning, I stood up, sticky and sweaty.I walked to the fridge with weight. I felt a stillness. This house has been quiet since you left. When you were gone I slept on your side of the bed and didn’t wake up once during the night. There could only be two reasons—1) Because your sideContinue reading “When You Were Gone”

by Jenn Henry You said my name for the last timeThe night before you diedExhausted and terrified You lifted the oxygen mask from your mouthAnd said, hi jennThat was all you could musterSo much hung in the air left unsaid.Hi jenn, I’m sorry.Hi jenn, it wasn’t your fault.Hi jenn, I shouldn’t have kicked you out.Hi jenn,Continue reading “Hi Jenn”

by Max Ureña When I came into this world they saidWelcome to the holy landThe world is in your palmJust as you fit into your mother’s Gave me a name which slid off tonguesIn a way too harsh for the American voice andToo soft for the Dominican palateI grew up longing for the day whereMyContinue reading “The Sacrifice”

by Becca Yenser This time with Natives, not my old bougie choiceOf American Spirits. I took up nail polishIn Millennial Pink. I started mixing SangriaWith Coca-Cola. I went to work and dipped in and out of lives,Looked at grandchildren peering out from wallets;I touched the shoulder of a man who drinksElevated IPAs like he mightContinue reading “You Guys, I Took Up Smoking Again”

by Austin Beaton And it’s not only the dollar aisleor because you gave birth control to a couple ex-girlfriendsor how you fed me Lexapro,a pill Kanye West rapped aboutin a studio probably not farfrom a Rite Aid in Los Angeles.Not just that five bucksbuys me and a millionairethe same serotonin dropletsspreading under the part of theContinue reading “I Love You, Rite Aid!”

by Kimiko Hirota The pink skies and dry airThe blue tongues and dark secretssoften like chalk pastelson our fingerprints Remember picking up pineconesdiscovering the city by bikesurprised by anythingwe could dig and bury Nine p.m. is fadingThe steepest sand hillis still sinkingand your hair isn’t short anymore My teeth are straight and my tires are flatandContinue reading “A Poem for My Old Best Friend”

by Shanna Alden I have spent most of my life as a writer, spinning universes and microscope lenses,cosmic horrors, and hope.Intellectual treatise, statistical research, and internet rant.but despite this,and despite months of trying,I am shit at writing love poems. And you, you deserve love poemsbut convention and tradition offer me no council I mean, I could promise pullContinue reading “Right Back With Coffee”