Don’t Expect Me to Die – Jill Michelle
after The Vaselines Jesus was everywhere, Sister Marita Ann Explained to the classroom of straight-backed Second graders lined up like...
Scene with Eyes on Weather – Joannie Stangeland
Aug 9, 2023
In the house of my past I saw them paired on the porch I have wanted all this time, a...
When Bridges Burn – McKenna Wilds
Aug 9, 2023
How quickly she cleaned her knife, your blood now on the cleaning cloth. How quickly she prided herself in forgiving...
Another One – Shauna Shiff
Aug 9, 2023
Chickens once dotted the yard, overrunning the lawn like soft white dandelion seed heads. Intolerable mean girls, the hens reared...
Work Is to Harvest – Shauna Shiff
Aug 9, 2023
I dug, I broke ground, through clay littered with rocks upon rocks. The metallic ring of the shovel hitting stone...
Happy to be Here – Kait Quinn
Aug 9, 2023
I imagined my striptease from silk a color-blue clarity; limbs loudly posed, wing spanned; songbird story that goes with the...
Pangolin – Smitha Sehgal
Feb 28, 2023
nocturnal, elusivearmour of scalesthis is how I grow upeach summer half an inch taller each monsoonpeeling shallotsplucking scram berriesburrowing into...
Notes on Holometabolic Metamorphosis – Lily Anna Erb
Feb 28, 2023
1. The sacrifice is loss of the familiar body. 2. The prize is the freedom of flight, a new face, and...
Autumn Apology – Suzanne Honda
Aug 10, 2022
I know I am the parasite – I pulled those weeds. Tore out the shrubs where the skunk used to...
Anti-Personification – Jay Dye
Aug 10, 2022
The curve of each treeis a record of windand sun, a memory ofwhat the Earth said.Each river winds the same,encoding...