Strolling with My Grandmother in the Center of a War | Rebecca Evans | 2nd Place Poetry Contest Winner
She warmed chicken soup all day— ready for the hungry, the empty She popped popcorn on movie days for seniors saying, I’m more able than...
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- May 2
- 1 min
Incisors | Hannah Yingst | 3rd Place Poetry Contest Winner
And I’m left to wonder if your betrayal was the desperation of a starved dog or a practiced knife slipping between my shoulder blades; is...
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Perfecting Imperfection | Philip Lisi
The routine starts on Sunday with a tiny flake of skin, barely detectable, separating itself from the sturdier flesh just underneath the...
- Apr 19
- 1 min
The Power of the Placenta | Eloísa Pérez-Lozano
"The placenta is the least understood human organ and arguably one of the more important, not only for the health of a woman and her...
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Six Questions to Ask Your Therapist Instead of Responding to Whatever it was She Just Asked You | Hailey Spencer
1. I feel it in the calcified spaces between my ankles and my ribs, underneath the porcelain of my cheeks. Can you tell me what...
- Mar 30
- 2 min
The Gray Drawer | Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison
“You will find every day, that the gable of every house has its own particular look, its own special lighting.” Herman Hesse’s 1905...
- Mar 24
- 1 min
Check, Mate | Laura McDermott Matheric
Your mind-fuck questions demand answers without sourcing the heart’s own database, bypassing what you really want to know. Is your chess...
- Mar 18
- 1 min
Data | Lisie Clark
Instagram thinks I'm still pregnant strollers stretch mark creams leggings that grow as your belly expands spend your money on that which...
- Mar 9
- 1 min
Las Vegas | Lindsey Steffes
5am and the broken strap of a white dress it’s ghost pain hanging at the Tropicana chest pain in a white line with a bald dealer I was...
- Mar 6
- 1 min
Strangler | Meredith Boe
Head lolled to the side like a dog. Sweetly pollenated air on a nature walk. He picks up a feather and says, like this one? A book told...
- Feb 26
- 1 min
In Doubt | Lydia Trethewey
After Berlinde de Bruyckere the way we hang together, limp as a pair of bloodied antlers, anxiety bodied-out. he is a growth of ribs...
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Ghosted | Holly Fine
He told me the truth using no words, leaving me to walk alone at twilight. Enveloped by choking air, I saw colors in peripherals like the...
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