Genre: Poetry

Jennifer Brown

"I felt like a bird warming up in the dark. I was so young. Thought every moment was a fractal of forever."

Jasper Glen

everything I do is #love. / Visa, Mastercard, Paypal? The transaction / Is final sale and has gone through. / Extra charge? I don’t care. My budget / Is infinite.

Matthew Feinstein

"No second cycle. / Instead, I suffocate my wardrobe / with a trash bag, make it my hamper’s / neighbor for the week."

Peter Mladinic

"The waxen hands / in the casket looked like hands / that knotted the flowered tie he wore Sundays / he sat / legs crossed in an easy chair."

Patsy Creedy

"Knowing extends / Beyond / The elbow touched / On the bus / The sadness you feel a smell / Reflexive to breathe it in"

Yuan Changming

"It is a landscape newly relocated / Into my heart’s backyard. Then I sit / On my legs, meditating about there / Being no light in the picture"

Megan Waring

"say no again and again to going / into work, to polite smalltalk dinners, to any invitation / that isn’t two cans of spray paint and a dusky overpass"

Natalia Batiz-Blanco

"It’s so loud. / There are no stop signs to cross the street so you run. / Thank you to the driver in the Mitsubishi who let us cross. / Almost there."

Rebecca Thrush

"It’s funny to think we wanted / to be bright enough to sparkle / on stage, in a sea of Irish / twins, all of us vying for stardom / and wallflower glory"

Mariah Thompson

"I don’t remember. / Travis or Kevin picked up a rock and there it was, dark / and poised for the striking. Fascination spilled / into pooled horror. I ran."