We could live in the body / of a baby shark.
Category Archives: Poetry
Amelia Guillet
We pass Wlike ghosts in Edaylight;
Linda Kohler
An anchorage of baking. Jellyfish blotches of flour drift, yolk swell
Melissa Swann
what it would be like / to find no such shore / on the other side of everything
Samuel Samba
the sun oils the stadium in lilac remorse: sky-angelo
Lucy Robin
Ahorita When you are sick in Indonesia, I amuse myself with words that have no English translation: now, right now, in a little bit, maybe later, maybe tomorrow, maybe never. You eat plain crackers and I open a beer with my belt buckle. When I was young my father used to say he wished heContinue reading “Lucy Robin”
Megan Cartwright
Phantom/Pantoum I lurch toward the bathroom, gelatinous, dissolve into stark white ceramic. The clot slides from my body; an unlikely plop. I wonder if I am dying. Dissolve into stark white ceramic with the crack of skull, a slap of skin on tile. I wonder if I am dying, floating borderless, an unanswered question. The crack of skull, a slap of skin on tile. My face pale asContinue reading “Megan Cartwright”
Clara Burghelea
Dallas, TX The city delivered secrets, gray squirrels crying at wee hours, velvet sun caught in between eyelids while listening to the thump of lovers above you, a slow erosion of thoughts, beheaded gods floating in coffee cups, weird stories gained at the laundromat, wearing grief sweaters to grey campus rooms, the promise of waterContinue reading “Clara Burghelea”
Ellie Fisher
double exposure slick rot. past selves shedding, congealing—discarded, soul heavy. i feel ill; past mistakes. unbrushed teeth. my face feels as if it is detaching itself from my skull / i saw someone today i once loved. something is splitting. i am peeling the past from my heart, revealing the core; a wound. refraction ofContinue reading “Ellie Fisher”
Nnadi Samuel
I run out of ways to midwife safely, the delicate stream that burdens my core:
swim meet lit mag 