Every week I step on the tired scale wondering why I want to lose parts of myself. I open the refrigerator door just to look: …
Dead Turtle by Georgia Ladd
I run in the rain for the sense of the splatter. I run in the rain To remember, To repeat. A rock smashed in mud …
All This Pain Has Made Me Numb by Disha Ahluwalia
All this pain has made me numb, Reduced me to a castaway ghost Rummaging through crevices …
The door opens. The temperature drops. by Emma Bovill
after Bon Iver You hold a book in your hands: oven-baked pages. home-stitched spine. handwritten print. You daft songbird, if you didn’t know a sharp …
Body Comparison by Shelbie Warner
I compare your freckles to galaxies and your eyes to pools of sapphire. I compare the dips between your ribs and hip bones to the …
On the Queensboro Bridge by Kait Burrier
Long Island City isn’t really in Long Island and the East River is technically a tidal strait and our date was actually more of …
Solace Seekers by Daniela Sordillo
The solace seekers search for something that will help them escape. On hands and knees with their magnifying glasses. They scour the Earth, Ripping their …
How to Love Again by L. N. Holmes
Beauty, brook with broken rocks Wash away my wishes, stream. Make me mindful of my dreams. Who am I to hope? Dancing on dangerous …
Fiona Apple’s Parting Advice for Every ‘I Know I Said Forever, But—’ by SaraEve
She is teaching me to play the piano, says this is the last thing she has for me. But I am all left handed, emotional, banging …