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Pieta

Print. for Mickey  a spluttering birth.  matter and hope, all  poison or ponzu – all recycled.        polished clone.  Crown,          knoll. seasoned  with milky weed. skin,  ours. sin,    Everyone is.   Prrint. worm, … Read More

by Heidi Ukyung Nam on March 28, 2025

Será tu nombre

Vals peruano

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

Names for a blackened stove

Hear it this evening, rusted lace fingers and remnants of dirty flame. It has a    large mouth, though never eyes on that gaping   face. Sings with empty room voices: oil and metal,   dustrag fumes, wood polish shallows. … Read More

by Daniel Viorica on February 28, 2025March 2, 2025

Pearly Whites

As my pearly whites crunch  into the powdered sugar, chew  it like thick, hot sand, as my tongue  melts it to stained glass, as I pray to baby Jesus  sucking on his lollipop, as his first molar waits  to come … Read More

by Lily Hutcheson on February 28, 2025

Crook

After Robert Frost

by Lily Hutcheson on February 21, 2025February 21, 2025

At the movies

Tissue paper face held over a match. Night dangles from rafters, perfume   chemicals burn. Daylight burns like faces on the screen skin-soft, bleached   and bloody. Picture this: grey background, rose buds flailing. Narrow angles   abstract and brief … Read More

by Daniel Viorica on November 21, 2024November 22, 2024

Sacramento, 2018

The sidewalk outside is wet. So is my swing hanging from the orange tree branches, and my pink boots by the door that hurt.  I like to draw the same picture over and over, a different bedroom from mine scratched … Read More

by Juna Brothers on November 21, 2024November 22, 2024

it is late october and i thought i was falling in love three weeks ago

(There’s something off about this moment, a beauty mark on the day. I’m feeling small and alone, far away from home and homesick for my car.)   it is late october and a discarded napkin  swirls in the wind, imitating … Read More

by Callisto Lim on November 21, 2024November 22, 2024

Sentence Starters

We haven’t learned the right tense: the cliché of red leaves falling, your choice  of hazelnut cold  foam atop my cold brew, that dead squirrel we mourned for because despite the newborn tents we couldn’t have brought her back. Why … Read More

by Wendy Wang on November 21, 2024November 22, 2024

Said, softly

Said, softly   October crushes down, squeezing the juice of summer and all the faces are new fresh new Mouths fallen heaps of gloss and lips  Sit. Sleep.  October crushes, and leaves curl on asphalt like fingers.    The leaves … Read More

by Jemima Smith on October 31, 2024November 1, 2024

We need to arrête

We need to arrête    all of this liquid: bridges lawns psets towels gmail  caffeine with the face of   a dog  barking in  the north  courtyard alongside    teeth digging  into flesh like   that subtle ascent of  adjectives … Read More

by Wendy Wang on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

After zooming out

After zooming out this afternoon    that held focused possibilities like a hand reaching into the backlit arteries of a bokeh   I filtered my reflections through your shutter and tore off Fuji film rolls from your skin   still … Read More

by Wendy Wang on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024


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