by Anny Mogollon | May 20, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2020
Visiting Hours General population But you’re not.Not anymoreNow you are an inmate of the state of CaliforniaA transformation lauded as reformationWith eight numbers instead of a name All objects except for a valid form of ID must be placed in the lockers* Valid form...
by Daniel Benyousky | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2019
Among These Giants The hidden river rushes throughThe redwood forest, veiled, enfoldedIn its own echo, babbling as if A half-remembered beckon, alwaysBeyond the ambling path, remainingElusive like those moments That have anchored root and limb,Though only to fade and...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2019
We Come from Resilience We come from resilience.Our ancestors endured,treated as strangers in their own land.Desperation and courage brought us here.Hard work was not enough to put food on the table.With holes in our shoes and a broken heart,we departed the beloved...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2019
Speaking Beneath the Tree to Whom I Belong For what are we but human? Such a waste. For what are we but human? Never satisfied, always looking, always searching for more. Always “improving.” Never satisfied. Never satisfied, always changing what was already perfect....
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2019
“A Freight of Bruised White Peaches” and “Of Heaven” A FREIGHT OF BRUISED WHITE PEACHES I have this friend who lives on the frontage roadsbetween Portland and Sacramento,a bark-faced bard with the voice of the mesa jackalsand the smell of ripening fruit on his hands....
by Cindy Nguyen | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2019
Flicker papers flurryideas hurrythe warmth of freshly pressed thoughtson eggshell leaves. a touch of the keyseuphoric releaseof fragments laced to prose. published vulnerabilitya flicker of humanity....
