In an age before this dreary time When all made sense, the words would rhyme We knew each other well back then Speech came easy, …
Cloud Painter by Lotus
I used to think a giant painted the sky. Sometimes, as I watched the sun sink its claws Into the horizon, or kiss the earth …
you promised me i was art by Mehek Boparai
i bled shades reflected on prisms and you held your paintbrush all too eagerly smearing my words across your canvas rearranging my thoughts to fit …
The Nameplate by Rowena Taylor
The hospice smells too clean. Nurses wheel around heavy carts of grief. The immensity of our love makes us ill with sadness. How imposing that …
I THOUGHT IT HAD GONE AWAY (or, a poem about anxiety) by Madeleine Christie
Oh, there’s something coiled around my chest again. I did not know that snakes could hibernate until this one woke up. Have you ever heard …
you have boobs now and this means… by Lydia Wang
men sometimes stare means there are sizes and colors and you look in the mirror and barely recognize your own body morphing and growing. this …
Unwanted Thoughts by Kerene Ng
Do the insane care too much? When they think of something And they wonder how others might feel Ricocheting back and forth between thoughts like these …
A Prayer for My Imaginary Little Sister by Shannon J. Curtin
Congratulations, Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, little sister, here’s my wish list. My litany of lessons, my book of prayers, the incantations I say in your …