When I tell you in the morning just before the sunlight touches the tips and curves of the city, before the water boils for our …
Day 54 by Chance Walsh
I used to say so much but now my words are chalk in my mouth and I can’t spit them out. Lately I don’t even …
Coffee by Odiyl Alfonso
I guess I’ll wake up again, stretch– then sadly remember the little encounter I had with my enemy, Fear. Grab my coffee mug, pour a …
Solace by Sophie Panzer
The performing arts center is too small to hold the entire festival and the spillover is cupped in a stone cathedral. The poets stand in …
the pixies (for everything) by Charlotte Covey
i. black curls, frizzed. make up, faded. heart lips, stern. our spell books on your shelf, covered, dust, candle wax. you never wanted me to …
In Between the Falling by Ionne Gagui
It’s the empty feeling in between That makes me lose my mind. When you’re far away and not quite here, And it’s something I can’t …
Sinking by Daniela Amaya
Cut me open and pour rocks inside Toss me in the water and tell me to survive I’m sinking and drowning under all the weight …
Hung Up by Christopher Rodriguez
you fell in love with long nights and short kisses, exchanging glances, bickering over who should hang up the phone first. you were head over …
Save Yourself by Amy Lauren Jones
From the other side of the table, a father told his daughter to “save herself.” Her head bobbed up and down in quick submission, and …