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…