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Girlhood by Emma Bolden

October 11, 2022

…the past / now an anthem leaking out of car windows, / grief exquisite as a teenage tenor out of tune …

October 7, 2022

We conjure Easter, / camaradrie, rebirth, and flirt.

October 6, 2022

“incandescent with rage / pure and pelagic”

October 4, 2022

This is the part of the song where you wish you knew something about music theory

September 29, 2022

Life revolves around someone else’s gravitational pull, and it’s never enough.

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.