Abbey Gate – Brandon Marlon Feb 21, 2022 By Abbey Gate did they wait, hives of humanity confined in a makeshift holding pattern, their hopes in hand, desperate...
Counter-Enlightenment – James Miller Feb 21, 2022 I remember to request no straw at lunch. The waiter asks whether I’m doing so to save the planet. Yes,...
Things You Don’t Think Of – Judith Pond Feb 21, 2022 2021 I’m sitting in the impossibly white waiting area of South Campus, Calgary’s new state-of-the-art hospital. My husband of two...
Gone to Ash – Tom Barlow Feb 21, 2022 The flowers lose themselves in grieving and each petal falls like a day that never was, but we all agree,...
Rings – Heidie Raine Feb 21, 2022 In Byron, Illinois in 1989, young state scholars and linebackers and thespians communicate their affection for their girlfriends with opal...
Youngstown, NY – Nathanael O’Reilly Feb 21, 2022 Kids ride bikes along the paths in Falkner Park on a warm spring day as parents watch from nearby benches....
Peaches Water Blue – Emily Kate Hastings Feb 21, 2022 She wanted the world. She wished for the first crisp bite of every red apple. She sought to paint a...
Two Poems – Amanda Roth Feb 21, 2022 And Now, a Word from Violet Beauregarde I told you I was more of a gum girl. But you offered...
IF ONLY YOU STAYED—IF ONLY I ASKED IT—IF ONLY THE WORLD WEREN’T ENDING – Jessica Blandford Feb 21, 2022 Red drips from the moon, like water off the glass leaving wet rings on our moving box coffee table—I’ll buy...
Big Daddy – Jim Ross Feb 21, 2022 One Friday in July I knocked off work early because I was seeing someone later in the West Village. As...