Beau BartonOct 29, 20201 minPlaying GunsWe played guns in the backyard, taking cover in the suburban rubble of rusted water heaters, broken bicycles, and empty cattle trailers....
Megan WarnerOct 28, 20201 minPicnic ParentingI. 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,...
Megan WarnerOct 28, 20201 minPotassium-Based Chemical RetransformationYesterday you were slow Down crosswalk sign Yellow and curved like an Apostrophe, comma, slow Down there are children here Avoiding you....
Madeleine WaltersOct 28, 20201 minOracle of DelphiTo be a prophetess of old Marble shrines, Gilded with whispers of praise Bangles on arms And ankles and throat Empty eyes staring at...
Madeleine WaltersOct 28, 20201 minHelene (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...
Madeleine WaltersOct 28, 20201 minAtalantaLast night a faceless goddess Visited me in a dream Another appeared beside her Beautiful and awful The blank face Issued a warning...
Hannah Lindsay ShepherdOct 28, 20201 minThirteen Ways of Looking at a FirearmAn imitation of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens I. Among twenty high school classrooms, The only moving...
Claire Leticia ChesnutOct 28, 20201 minA Chiral Desert ExperienceThe sun pours down like honey, soaking into scaly lizards. Coyotes thrive on untouched land and homegrown bird gizzards. Sweet days birth...
Sherisse Alheli PendletonOct 28, 20202 minouroborosthere was never anything until suddenly there was, and it turns out it had all been here all along matter creates matter destroys matter,...
Madeline PeckOct 28, 20201 minLet UsLet 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...
Madeline PeckOct 28, 20202 minHenrietta Mara and the Socks Her Father Brought HerHenrietta Mara walked to the edge of the lake. Henrietta unlaced her shoes and tossed them onto the moon-drunk sand. She peeled away her...
Andrea CallOct 28, 20201 minGas Planet BrainMy 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...
Beau BartonOct 28, 20201 minRotten Fillingher skin sparkles below her 1920s pearls her long tassel skirt snags on the branches she bakes her lovely pies with rotten apples toasts...