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Verse Jumping by Alyza Taguilaso

October 24, 2022

I plot a map of stars using peeled white paint.

Sugar, Baby by Avitus B. Carle

October 18, 2022

One time, she found an old spoon in my purse. I told her mommy likes to collect old spoons.

So Many Clowns by Avitus B. Carle

October 18, 2022

You can imagine my disappointment, being stood up on a date surrounded by children, cotton candy, and parents drowning their misery in overly salted, buttered popcorn.

BEFORE I GO by April Yu

October 13, 2022

We’re sitting with tangled legs, elbows propping fruit-heavy bellies skyward, brushing hair and daylight out of our eyes.

It’s Good to Have You Back by Meg Pokrass

October 11, 2022

When I was sixteen, the year he went to prison, my lips were red and my cheeks sweet-smelling.

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.