by Yazlin Juarez | Jul 24, 2024 | Poetry, Poetry 2024
Decompose “Witches’ Butter” (2022), Yazlin Juarez. Courtesy of the author. Al fin del díavuelvo a mi tierray como tu cuerpocomo la setaAquí descansamosen el suelo del bosqueconsumiendo cuentasen la media nocheI eat youand you eat meThis is how I...
by Gabriella Graceffo | Jul 24, 2024 | Poetry, Poetry 2024
Theory of Care “yellow textile on brown wooden table” (2020), Noah Morgan. Courtesy of Unsplash. Magnolia trees that open their flowerslike doves coming to wingspan. Freshsoup dumplings, hot gelatin runningdown my face before I flick a napkinacross the downpour....
by Kiana Perez Granados | Jul 24, 2024 | Poetry, Poetry 2024
Portrait of My Mother, Circa 2001 Lost in the leaves’ swing, I am trying to shake off their green, buttermilk yellow. The refrigerator hums and drums like a whining giant.This house song draws me to her, captured, hanging from a California magnet. Obsidian hair covers...
by Harriet Weaver | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
What Occurs to Me This Morning When I wake up you are raving about home renovations and Duane Allman and showing me doubling guitars— like how sometimes you walk around strumming the one you built yourself, or play beats you soon forget but I can sing for months. My...
by Madina Tuhbatullina | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Concave Seats Days that walk in slippers andbrush baby hairdid not hear fatherstell other tall men I madea mistake withcigarette interruptions her lilac dress suit and purse clickwelcome asphalt and kindergartenwith puppets inherited over hands ofchildren who hadn’t...
by Max Rothschild | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
For Dionne Brand, or, Another Person in Another Place Mysteries conjugate. Mystery conjugates. What becomes of clarity. In the final remove. Time as time. The past involves itself in the present to what degree? A unitary voice is always manifold, in combination. He is...
