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The scourge of the decaf fiend: thou shalt be unproductive

“I must confess / I have been sitting at this corner table for two whole hours / writing my Senior Thesis™ / but I was just pretending…”

by Juju Lane on December 4, 2022

On electromagnetism, bodies, and the nature of overthinking

“We sit together, our two bodies close, but not touching. They say that opposites attract, but there is a void between us, a siren.”

by Isabelle Clayton on November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

A Haibun for our Fallen Leaves

“Short breaths are suspended like smoke, naked against the frail air.”

by Olivia Roslansky on November 13, 2022November 14, 2022

Arizona 06/13/2011

“the flash captures/our bodies/in eternal film”

by Alexandra Orbuch on November 6, 2022

Battle With Nature

A poem after Basquiat’s “The Field Next to the Other Road”

by Alexandra Orbuch on October 30, 2022October 30, 2022

once, Chagall

“Jubilation—that is the meaning / of this anti-reminiscence.”

by Lynn Kong on October 9, 2022

Cold Spell

“an indecisive sea that steeps, stains / my shoes, once white, gore-aged /
too far gone.”

by Mirabella Smith on October 2, 2022October 2, 2022

The Flower Rouge

“The perfect flower’s perfection/ is to smooth this funereal mound.”

by Sam Himmelfarb on September 25, 2022September 25, 2022

from a costco gas station in california

“but roots are live wires, and you never saw / that I’m more brick than concrete…”

by Mirabella Smith on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

The Apotheosis of Washington

his brush-stroked / countenance / and plaster-backed / powder blue / dress coat / dragged down / into the crypt

by Alexandra Orbuch on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

Light

“Unaided / my eyes can only see so much / Beauty.”

by Daniel Vergara on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

Songs of the West

“…how will we escape when the sun meets its rise?”

by Chisom Nwadinobi on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022


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