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Contrasts

“stars and stripes / color the flag of my birth country / and I am found buried in the pages / of its history”

by Alexandra Orbuch on March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

Ex Post Facto

“…I’ve become a spy for mankind.”

by Kyle Singh on March 20, 2022March 25, 2022

To cleanse

“I consider cleaning it / But a marble pattern of the last remnants of you is reassuring to stare down at ”

by Hiba Siddiki on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

On Orange Juice

“…poetry ploughshares tombstones and headstones and footstones and no-stones, makes suffering beautiful and tasty…”

by Brittani Telfair on February 20, 2022February 20, 2022

Ding dong… hello?

“Go back to work, you miscreant.”

by Juju Lane on February 20, 2022February 20, 2022

Nature’s Favorite Hue

“When are you going to honor the body that grips your soul, and bask in being whole?”

by Chisom Nwadinobi on February 20, 2022February 20, 2022

The N is Not Silent

“My name commands the full tongue, the breath of a whole lung”

by Chisom Nwadinobi on November 20, 2021November 21, 2021

ON WAR AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE

“the human can only know themselves to be human /
because we condemn the three dimensions /
of our thoughts”

by Brittani Telfair on November 14, 2021

camelot (2021, elastane)

“you were always guinevere /
and jfk, and i arthur of the cul-de-sac”

by Brittani Telfair on November 14, 2021

Effect of Fog

“I can’t wake up from the things I wanted– / I can’t ever bring myself to come clean.”

by Hope Perry on November 7, 2021November 6, 2021

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

The Subway Car

“Jacob and / the angel / jostling in the / subway car”

by Alexandra Orbuch on October 31, 2021October 30, 2021


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