Beau Barton Oct 29, 2020 1 min Playing Guns We played guns in the backyard, taking cover in the suburban rubble of rusted water heaters, broken bicycles, and empty cattle trailers. ...
Megan Warner Oct 28, 2020 1 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, bu...
Megan Warner Oct 28, 2020 1 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. ...
Madeleine Walters Oct 28, 2020 1 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 wall...
Madeleine Walters Oct 28, 2020 1 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 b...
Madeleine Walters Oct 28, 2020 1 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 “Neve...
Hannah Lindsay Shepherd Oct 28, 2020 1 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 thin...
Claire Leticia Chesnut Oct 28, 2020 1 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...
Sherisse Alheli Pendleton Oct 28, 2020 2 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,...
Madeline Peck Oct 28, 2020 1 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...