After we slung our rotten insults, after we slammed every door, after we clawed the headboard paint instead of saying, sorry, after I dropped the tea …
Reasons Why Loving You Was More Entertaining Than Watching Prime Time Television by Talicha J.
You once walked around for two weeks with a broken hand calling it a sprain, before I could convince you to go to the campus …
On the Queensboro Bridge by Kait Burrier
Long Island City isn’t really in Long Island and the East River is technically a tidal strait and our date was actually more of …
Cohabitation by Kathryn Merwin
There is a humming time. Morning slips through the slats of the blinds, stretches sleep from grey heat across his face. Breathing in, breathing out …
Now This Is Love by Carissa Cicchini
I never imagined waking up happy on a foggy Monday morning until you came along. It’s just the sky seems really beautiful right now, and …
The Lightness by Kathryn Merwin
The fields were green and brown, speckled with horses and bales of hay. We drove with the windows down — cigarettes for fingers, black ash …
Celeste (For Her) by Seanna Pratt
I like her hands because they are her hands. Small moonlight basins. Spreads them along my knee careful; a glass telescope, a nervous comet. I …
Monday by Briana Harley
“It’s the end of the week, you wave goodbye and say, ‘Okay, see you Monday.’ But you don’t see them again.”
It Wasn’t What I Wanted, Clearly by Maggie Bowyer
How can you admit To that kiss in your car But then come out and say It was just one kiss, And a kiss means …