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This Is Not A Love Poem

I don’t know how I know that but I do. The way turtles / Return home to give birth. Not really like that.

by Aron Wander on October 3, 2014October 5, 2014

The Swamp

They breed in drains. A tinful of groundnuts. Fist in the honey pot. Can’t. Cultured, in a bad way. And bloom into quintillion coils. Theft at midnight, errors in the yard.

by Chris Littlewood on April 6, 2014April 6, 2014

A Memento of Nintendo

When one thinks of a ‘game,’ hears its notes playing and effects sounding,  Like a pot smashing or a brick bashing, When one smells a game,  The cellophane of a case, or the rubber of an analog stick, When one … Read More

by Oliver Berke on October 3, 2024October 7, 2024

Voyage

“Yesterday evening, / life coalesced in rain: dripping streetlights, storefronts reflected / onto glossy black pavement. Liquid incandescence.”

by Daniel Viorica on November 7, 2021November 6, 2021

How to Live in a Single

“5. Spot your ex-roommates on campus. Remember their erratic sleep patterns, what they looked like in the mornings. The sounds of their alarms. They’ll ask, how’s the single? You say, great…”

by Jimin Kang on October 6, 2018October 6, 2018

Será tu nombre

Vals peruano

by Francisco Alejandro on March 28, 2025March 28, 2025

Dirge

Something about the engineering of stairwells / makes you want to push someone down one. / Vertebrae snapping against all those / edges straight as rulers. Too violent,

by Eliza Mott on March 30, 2014March 30, 2014

Milk cum laude

“10 o’clock peek-a-boo
12 o’clock Looney Tune”

by Somi Jun on May 8, 2017July 20, 2017

Enfleshment

“If the body cares not for itself, / who would care for it? / What is the use / of wasted breath?”

by Juju Lane on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021

Stained Glass

We always have so many things to do but time stilled in there, like the quiet between heartbeats.

by Serena Alagappan on February 19, 2017July 21, 2017

Sure

“I’ll take any reason, / absurd to God, for something new. / That’s why I stood up, no doubt— for a little color.”

by Andrew Zacks on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020

Elegy

Imagine horses at night, their terrible heat. A field torn open by hooves.   Or slumbering in a great circle. Hair. Haunch. Lilacs moaning in the dark.   Fires moaning in the dark. Morning gropes like a mound of hands. … Read More

by Matthew Brailas on April 25, 2013April 27, 2013


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