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 Precious Okpechi | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
lonely and great god my spine is curved & looking down on the earth.the other day, a stranger raised my chin up with her finger, asked the name of my loneliness, & walked meto the end of the road, my hand in hers. before i was born, i must have wished, with...
by Madeline Johnson | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Renting a Room at Home My house is furnished with jars of tar and spit they don’t belong to me but take up the empty spaces Leave the TV on after dinner to drown the stillness with canned laughter or politicians on the evening news if the volume is loud...
