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In Princeton with You

“Your clothes are spilling from their drawers / It seems I’d rather stay indoors / When I’m in Princeton with you.”

by Peter Taylor on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

Once Kin

“Now / she / shrouds / her / s k e l e t o n / in / oversize / d / sweatshirts.

by Alexandra Orbuch on October 10, 2021October 9, 2021

Gingko Leaves

“All / Cicero said we need is a library and a garden, so I’ll keep / little brown pots on the windowsills.”

by Lucia Brown on October 10, 2021October 27, 2021

Night-Blooming Flowers

“The sharp tenderness of Night’s long sigh / leaves the drunken hawk moths / dizzied from delight.”

by Nathalie Charles on October 10, 2021October 9, 2021

Christ, Sympathea

“Every door was a chilling / tile of a mosaic / made of the sins / we have yet to commit.”

by Nathalie Charles on September 26, 2021October 4, 2021

On My Way to You

“Are you there yet? Hello, dear. I’m on / my way, lost myself at the intersection /
between the bottomless sea and the swan / that wanders between the traffic lanes.”

by Lara Katz on September 26, 2021September 24, 2021

Family

“so entwined /they appeared /one fruit / blossoming from / the green earth”

by Alexandra Orbuch on September 19, 2021September 18, 2021

35 Ways to Say “I think I could love you but I can’t tell you yet”

“It’s like this: carving rivers into your palm lines./How many times I’ve tried to wipe tears with remnants of the sky.”

by Melody Choi on September 19, 2021September 17, 2021

metamorphosis

“A flower waves its children as wind ruffles grass like children chasing butterflies”

by Alice Jimin Lee on August 1, 2021December 8, 2021

Abyss

“Hypnotic / In the crayon-colored blue of her womb, a / Pale body bubbles and floats.”

by Alexa Marsh on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

Ars Poetica

“Brought back to the smooth oil, our skin so platonic in the bathroom light. / Enough secrecy for love, enough ugliness for comfort.”

by Sabrina Kim on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021

Please Don’t Touch

“For who would not want to /
stroke the smooth plane of her face?”

by Kristiana Filipov on April 25, 2021April 26, 2021


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