Ghosts by Briar Chisholm

I knew you through crumpled bed sheets With tired eyes and morning views Crawling under blankets and intense teenage blues It was fast and rough and passionate and yet it was nothing at all Pushed lips folding together to create a melody that I never learned the notes to One that never quite caught in […]

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Wanderlust by Dana Li

Won’t you come, and walk these rugged roads with me? We can drive that beat-up van through stretches of golden cornfield, dappled with dying sunlight, listening to the tired hum of the engine and wondering breathlessly when it will sputter and give out. Dusk descends and the crickets come alive with their calls—a song to […]

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Falling by Kiernan Norman

The past few weeks have been mounted in hot pink and mahogany. Hot breath, sticky and drooling, fogs up the glass and I resist the urge to outline my name in a one-finger, window-fade, Arabic script– I can’t keep my giddy heat and roasting hands to myself. My thoughts pirouette a coconut, slippery-sweet meld of […]

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