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Hen -- poetry by Savannah Jackson
One August morning, I carried the bowl of grain out, lifted the lid, & a plume of flies twisted into the air. Heaped in the corner was a...
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- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
The Stray -- poetry by Savannah Jackson
The dog came in September. Yellowish, he limped to where I stood at the end of the driveway. His underside was stained dark like wine...
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- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
Woodwork -- poetry by Katherine Dyal
I know you don’t care what my body looks like, But I give myself new scars every week to see if you’ll notice. I know you don’t care that...
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- Jun 18, 2022
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Taking Flight -- poetry by Jay Aggarwal
Let’s pretend we’re sleeping on the ship’s deck chairs. We whisper, and imagine the evening growing colder. Above those tangerine cliffs...
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- Jun 18, 2022
- 1 min
Winter Days -- poetry by Lily Nelson
A day will come when I open all the windows in this house, and let the sounds – the chirping of birds, the sighs of wind, the rustle of...
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- Jun 18, 2022
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Paper boats -- poetry by Sofia de Castro Daniel
When I was younger, I used to make paper boats. I'd put them in the streets when it rained, I'd run on the sidewalks, following them. My...
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- Jun 18, 2022
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It Comes -- poetry by Julia Ongking
After Toni Morrison’s “It Comes Unadorned” It comes Unexplained, unspooled red thread tied around your head; a broken promise. It comes...
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- Jun 18, 2022
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I Read a Book The Other Day -- poetry by Cameron Calonzo
I read a book the other day. The protagonist kills himself, and it is beautiful. Everybody weeps. And I mean everybody. Absolute buckets....
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- Jun 18, 2022
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In the City of Gentle People -- poetry by Josefin Eraula
i stand wide-stanced in a holy sanctuary, a martyr saint beckons me to stay and listen to the unspoken-turned-mumbled prayers from...
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- Apr 30, 2022
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Flat Poem for a Formless Feeling -- poetry by Josephine Howe
There is a certain morbid satisfaction in the realization of something terrible. The longer my sadness sat, the more i found it twisting,...
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- Apr 30, 2022
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woman smoking a cigarette -- poetry by Vivian Dong
she’s sitting in front of the gas station, smoking a cigarette. she’s straight out of a film reel, a print in a magazine. a high to ride,...
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- Apr 30, 2022
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filling in the cracks -- poetry by Saanvi Sundaram
there's life inside your lungs, love lingering, longing to emerge; who dare tell you to repress it? listen my dear, the wind in your ear,...
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- Apr 15, 2022
- 1 min
all skin and bone -- poetry by Sejal Akerkar
my brother could never chase me through the garden because he failed to bloom days flapped through my hair as the dirt decided its day to...
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- Apr 15, 2022
- 2 min
Growing Pains -- poetry by Hannah Zhang
Do you remember the time we ran in the fields behind our house Carved our names into trees and trampled in the grass Threw our hats in...
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- Apr 15, 2022
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and, i fear, ephemeral… -- poetry by Louise Kim
your fingerprints are fading away. it’s been a while since we were created, perhaps essence preceding existence, perhaps vice versa, but...
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- Apr 15, 2022
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cat girls -- poetry by Yun-Fei Wang
i don’t know what your wedding venue looked like but i know the bathroom ceiling had no ledges for a nylon rope. eyeliner between hand &...
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- Apr 15, 2022
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Santa -- poetry by Isabella Dunsby
ever since I could count the coins in my father’s pockets i’ve known. ever since I could hear the creak of my father’s footsteps and feel...
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- Apr 15, 2022
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sick -- poetry by Ziyi Yan
something blackens inside. maybe it is stomach acid, after blanching my tongue in bitter chocolate. i am scared something will shatter if...
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- Apr 15, 2022
- 1 min
Say Beautiful -- poetry by Tyler Sookralli
You think you can veil us. You think you can hide us away. You think you can vanquish our presence. With your law that cries, “Don’t Say...
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- Apr 15, 2022
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your grotesque calligraphy -- poetry by Hannah Ascher
i saw your words. red paint pulsating with your one-track message bet you wielded that brush with conviction. i’m imagining you now, how...
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