Playing Guns
We played guns in the backyard, taking cover in the suburban rubble of rusted water heaters, broken bicycles, and empty cattle trailers....
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Megan Warner
Oct 28, 20201 min
Picnic Parenting
I. I wear a potato salad smile, yellow Kind of squishy but soft like a “my mom makes it better” – don’t you know? Still disappointing,...
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Megan Warner
Oct 28, 20201 min
Potassium-Based Chemical Retransformation
Yesterday you were slow Down crosswalk sign Yellow and curved like an Apostrophe, comma, slow Down there are children here Avoiding you....
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Madeleine Walters
Oct 28, 20201 min
Oracle of Delphi
To be a prophetess of old Marble shrines, Gilded with whispers of praise Bangles on arms And ankles and throat Empty eyes staring at...
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Madeleine Walters
Oct 28, 20201 min
Helene (of Sparta)
I wake to a clammy palm covering my mouth Paris’ eyes are feverish, Possessive and possessed Coarse fabric chafes against my cheeks And...
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Madeleine Walters
Oct 28, 20201 min
Atalanta
Last night a faceless goddess Visited me in a dream Another appeared beside her Beautiful and awful The blank face Issued a warning...
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Hannah Lindsay Shepherd
Oct 28, 20201 min
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Firearm
An imitation of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens I. Among twenty high school classrooms, The only moving...
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Claire Leticia Chesnut
Oct 28, 20201 min
A Chiral Desert Experience
The sun pours down like honey, soaking into scaly lizards. Coyotes thrive on untouched land and homegrown bird gizzards. Sweet days birth...
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Sherisse Alheli Pendleton
Oct 28, 20202 min
ouroboros
there was never anything until suddenly there was, and it turns out it had all been here all along matter creates matter destroys matter,...
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Madeline Peck
Oct 28, 20201 min
Let Us
Let us shed our skins and dance with our jittery bones and pumping organs beneath the light of God’s false eye. Let us braid each other’s...
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Madeline Peck
Oct 28, 20202 min
Henrietta Mara and the Socks Her Father Brought Her
Henrietta Mara walked to the edge of the lake. Henrietta unlaced her shoes and tossed them onto the moon-drunk sand. She peeled away her...
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Andrea Call
Oct 28, 20201 min
Gas Planet Brain
My breath is blood. My blood is air. There’s a busy frantic dying thing shackled to the inside surface of my skull, Trying to grow webs...
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Beau Barton
Oct 28, 20201 min
Rotten Filling
her skin sparkles below her 1920s pearls her long tassel skirt snags on the branches she bakes her lovely pies with rotten apples toasts...
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