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what do you get a man for his birthday

what do you get a man for his birthday “what is your love language?” father hugged me mother kissed me that is what you say when you don’t know how to love. I never had my room four eyes blinked … Read More

by Aina Marzia on August 3, 2025August 3, 2025

воскресенье

the sun sets its sorry self behind the dining hall & the clouds above the roof are pink like gently-used gauze. i close my eyes and try to remember how it feels when things are beautiful. on the widow’s walk … Read More

by Nell Marcus on August 3, 2025August 3, 2025

namo buddha

the other night i dreamed of a door that opened to a hill on a hill with one thousand prayer flags tied to the trees and the sun burning the earth making your lips shine iridescent with spit or something … Read More

by Sarah Park on May 25, 2025May 25, 2025

Quiet Soul

I am the empty stadium in your dreams, warmly lit by orange peel flowers, domes flaring. My flesh swells in Quiet bloom.   To see the infinitive ceiling while it’s dry, I jump into the hole  of the Joyceian dog’s … Read More

by Heidi Nam on May 25, 2025

The Immigrant Daughter Speaks

I’m not going to force your name–– Mother → Mommy → Eomoni → 어머니 → Eomma →  엄마–– because I never called you that. I never called you anything. For all your shifts    you were the same, twisting every … Read More

by Juna Brothers on April 28, 2025

aubade for egg time-lapse

after Alan Michael Parker it starts as a rash  hungover  past the yellow  line i blur into a  stroller on the far platform we threw out  anything remotely half-used: my bedsheets lay limp, like  bedsheets egg whites crease on themselves … Read More

by Ziyi Yan on April 19, 2025

Pantoum, (pantoum) pantoum.

Yes to the catchup, I saw your text,  I’m just not sure about which day I’m free yet, but I’ll reply soon No, of course. No worries. Looking forward!   But I’m just not sure about which day  My hands … Read More

by Heidi Ukyung Nam on April 19, 2025

Howling in this Moment

after “Howl” (1956) by Allen Ginsburg   I saw the best minds of my generation  locked-in scribbling syllables at desks  in the basement C floor of Firestone library  covered in a lifetime’s layer of dust, who skipped last month’s Labyrinth … Read More

by Elena Eiss on April 19, 2025

Treatise on Believing in Yourself from Elizabeth Holmes

To diagnose someone means  they’re already sick. We need more time, I tell my investors––Kissinger and the other men. It can only happen in blood. I don’t give stories or specificities. Silicon Valley means you create the outline and let … Read More

by Juna Brothers on April 10, 2025

Anthracnose: An Exodus

Leaves cascade from the oak,  to which my parents swore,  stems diseased  by my sins? I trace the veins anyway,  hoping they will lead me  to their quiet, promised land.   It lies within  a barren forest.  where whispers linger, … Read More

by Davina Thompson on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025

Auction

introducing the body  size thirty-four B tits, forty-four round hips slim twenty-nine-inch waist  thick thighs I used to once hate  a gap so spaced that words fly out of it a forehead so big you could play chess on it  … Read More

by Deity on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025

Blackness in Residence

The Amistad sails a silent scream across the sea.  In its wake, a dark tapestry woven with violence.  Mouths in the hold lie open, inaudible, begging for the nothingness that is everything.    On this ship, terror lurks.  A violence … Read More

by Christopher Butcher on April 5, 2025


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