Ode to Growing Out My Hair Again
B. Hannah
I learned how to braid hair
at a friend’s eighth birthday party,
crossing thick chunks
of golden yarn over a brick wall.
My...
“He said he didn’t have long to live.” The library was far too silent, as if all discussion paused the moment Aubrey opened her mouth.
“Well duh, if he’s sick enough his brain is shutting...
Parentheticals
Rebecca Knight
In the supermarket midmorning checkout
In a hoodie that read COOS BAY
A thick purple crescent crater-
Impossible not to catch-
Seemed...
Velella velella
Rebecca Knight
The moment I leave the threshold
I collect a faceful of thin rain.
The sky is so soupy, so full of water
That it just hangs there
Waiting...
Family Tree
Flora Snowden
We forgot to
keep using
the swing,
rope wound
so sure round
willow wood
they learned
each other‘s fiber
Smooth wrist
held by
rough hands
Maybe...
Homeward Bound
Kae Ranck
4/12/24-
He nods absently, waving the Father off as he turns back to the statue.
It takes a lot to bring a demon to its knees, but he sinks...
Pieces of Canis
Dharma Delahanty
It's 12:34am on your drive home.
Two boys are riding their bikes in the lane opposite you,
one with a terribly bright, strobing light.
The...
The sun will be setting soon
Gabriella Grinbergs
The sun will be setting soon.
Yet, It shines relentlessly. Between parting gray clouds, hanging heavy in the late afternoon...
When she came into my garden, my soil was in terrible tilth
She put her tools in my hands and taught me how to sow.
(This ruined my garden for some time
But I was too naive, too young to know.)
“We’ll...
You were too big. A mahogany
dipped circle that would slide off
my little fingers, making me giggle each time
you met the dusty bark.
I never thanked you for validating
my labors under the...
DO IT AGAIN
Rhys Hodson
This morning is like every other. Like every other, sunlight filters through my dull-sage curtains as they ruffle in the breeze, ruffle my hair....
Inside Joke
Natalie Nafsinger
You punched a hole through the door
with the need to talk.
We’re not under the graffiti bridge
so shut the door, I’m in your pocket and...
