Poetry

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The plains of shinar

by Jacob Dimpsey

oh, but cain, i was never going to be what they 

prophesied i would become. this mud hardened…

To those who call me beautiful

by Jacob Dimpsey

dear spectator, i am words on the lips

of a politician on a daytime news program…

taraxacum

by Jennifer Cesak

Dandelion wildflower

Weed of the wild…

of south carolina

by Tyla Parks

I saw my cousin get baptized in my aunt’s swimming pool in South Carolina…

Envy of Mountain Goats, or, a Feeling You Could Only Experience Once

by Grady Curtis

the s i l e  n   c    e 

in the woods is 

thunderous…

Spring calf

by Brianna Simmons

Children played doctor in the run-down barn

using hay woven bandages to make up for their lonely…

A Lesson in Bruality

by Amy Jarvis

my teeth chatter inside my mouth,
a cathedral, brute & mutated. prayers…

The Bird in my mouth sings cathedrals

by Amy Jarvis

archaism, like something as an afterthought of holy, like every
dish in the sink…

The Best Kingdoms have exits

by Deon Robinson

Heat makes rabid dogs of boys with sawed shotgun noses…

fire is missing

by Eneida Giboyeaux

Sun Child 

Once, you burned wildly, destruction and chaos embodied…

An Elegy for ancestry & earth

by Eneida Giboyeaux

I remember how strawberries always held an inherent connection to my grandmother…

static and polaroid

by Megan Shaffer

the memories of us have turned into static in my TV set brain and sometimes I can only hear you like i can hear the weather…

Somewhere on the edge of summer

by Kailah Figueroa

my horoscope says that “ambivalence is no longer an option”…

Sex is like eating a lemon candy

by Emily Criswell

Whispers on cracked tongues 

Split from peach pits –…

Miss Daffodil

by Anastasia Farley

hovering over her steaming kitchen sink,

she filled jars with water and yellow petals…