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home depot by Giovanna Lomanto

October 31, 2022

i pray for the first time in years when i see you on that gurney.

undelivered poem by Sanya Tinaikar

October 31, 2022

spiderwebs of veins of tendrils of blood you disown

Dad, I remembered one of our walks today by Emma Reyes

October 25, 2022

that night made you change your mind about hating the people that lived there

milkteeth by Natalia Sperry

October 25, 2022

where do you go when pink spring outgrows you?

Rosebud by Victoria Buitron

October 25, 2022

A gift from the twilight depths of our yard.

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
Saturation by Claire Oleson
I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.