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River, river, I’m broken/sinking down

It’s 4 in the morning and you’re pulling at my bedsheets again. I’d like to think I’m the boulder willing river water into a million little Vs, the shapes of teeth on parted lip, buzzing. In my memory, you appear … Read More

by Isabelle Clayton on April 16, 2023

Spring March 24

I   Now daffodils bloom in watercolor spirit Skies of tender pastel blend into the lingering warmth of caramel breaths in the air. A girl sighs in the distance, going somewhere, smiling occasionally, scowling sometimes at the cherry blossoms or … Read More

by Ayse Basak Ersoy on April 10, 2023

wearing weighted blankets

first semester, i read and wrote and p-setted, claimed dual residency in forbes and ncw so i could eat until my mouth and stomach begged “no more,” got home everyday to lovely humans who never fail to make me laugh … Read More

by Avery Williams on April 2, 2023

Au

Last night I ingested my mother’s gold in hopes it would bring value to every worthless part of my body   I brought her bangles to my teeth and bit them so hard I drew blood holding them under my tongue … Read More

by Hiba Siddiki on March 26, 2023

Prufrock’s Letters

Mente mia, che presaga de’ tuoi damni, Al tempo lieto già pensosa e trista, Sí ‘ntentamente ne l’amata vista Requie cercavi de’ futuri afanni   1. Let us go now, til it be that all you and I can see … Read More

by Daniel Viorica on March 5, 2023

A dream of mending

Our skies sink further into dust and while we wait for cloud-made seams, the earth tears limb from limb, and trusts that we will mend her — so it seems.   As fires rage through forests deep, we find ourselves … Read More

by Marie-Rose Sheinerman on February 26, 2023February 26, 2023

After the Beast Within

In the Earth, Cicadaboy Has an Out-of-Body-Experience Sweat on slate like spilt brain ejaculate, like old sun god’s been plugging holes with lead again, old dog dying of heat stroke again, it’s Thursday, and a series of freak thunderstorms   … Read More

by Charles Nuermberger on February 19, 2023February 19, 2023

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


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