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Jill Michelle

"I hope / to create something / good enough to stay, wait / for that other child of ten / dropped at the local library / branch while Mom runs Saturday errands"

Edith Friedman

"Her sea children, better prize, mid-size / when they sun themselves on ancient rock / she smells the dripping fuzz of their hard heads."

Ruth Towne

"The bones of my ribcage articulate to one / another under my skin, hidden roots / that have yet to produce. I wait for symbol, / for my bones to reduce."

Amanda Bramley

"An imminent storm brewed foreboding clouds. They gathered in future skies. With Ethan’s small body curled on mine, I couldn’t see what was hovering in our horizon."

Kyle Singh

"Did the lilies tell me how to stay afloat? / They swim against the current of my body / And fill my lungs with water / Where was I to go?"

Sanne Bergh

"In these moments in time, I don’t matter. To be insignificant in the scope of it all is my empowerment."

Gyaru

"One thing I also knew about the Aswang, is that it was able to experience the range of emotions all humans felt. When my father was angry, his Aswang, in spite of its search for blood, was experiencing a range of emotions that I had only come to acknowledge I, myself, had as an adult."

John Brantingham

"The brightly colored signs / that tell you the city has condemned / abandoned houses or old buildings / are coming up this spring like crocuses."

Jennifer Brown

"The child believed that it came from the air, full of sky & rain, & from the light, which disappeared but always returned, & from the keening sound the wind made against the sharp-cornered house."