by Rebecca Chhay | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
Going Out I went out todayfor the first timein a while. I thought about wearingmy new black dressbut decided it might be betterfor a date nightthan a funeral. I was sure toaccessorize appropriatelywith a black mask. Rebecca Chhay Publab Fellow 2021 Rebecca Chhay is a...
by Jessice Doble | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
Talking to my Mother While She’s in Chemo Don’t tell me about the osprey in Louisiana.Tell me something square instead.I remember the rocky river that ran behind the house.You said, when the petals bloom at night, the fairies dance.Tell me how you knew I snuck...
by Lindsey Pannor | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
Saturday’s Haze Texas Chocolatedouble butter-sticks h e e t c a k ewith pistachios(& big flats of salt) must remain rightside up or elsemeet its makeron ...
by Mario Gomez-Samora | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
A Tzintzún (Hummingbird) Emerging I don’t really know who chose who.I just stopped holding my heart’s emotions andthen, when I was about to die,you appeared! There you were, a little Tzintzúnwaiting to embrace the light of the sun,to penetrate with your body that...
by Leonardo Gil Gomez | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
Corners It might have been the cold or the urge to be alone.I couldn’t take it any longer.I hunkered down in the corner of the living room.No, not that one with the window …Yes.That one.He crouched down, your father said.He shrank little by little, your sister...
by Kendall Moore | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
every girl like the last day of summer 1. Don’t marry the one you are most passionately in love with because the highs are high, but the lows —my mother once said to me as a matter of fact, from personal experience, because she knows best. Because that tooth-colored...
