Rena Shapiro
Oct 12, 2019
Blackberry Hunting
I was walking with Jasmeen in the grassy fields beyond the lake. We had brought a plastic container to collect wild blackberries in. We...
Lauren Gotard
Sep 26, 2019
The Lonely Tabernacle
Mississippi air wafted through the open window, along with the sunlight that dappled my exposed feet. Mother left it open hours ago...
Sara Crapanzano
Sep 24, 2019
Good Intentions
To be in your arms is to be a Monarch butterfly captured in a jar by a child. Meant to be preserved in all of its beauty but only...
Jaycelyn Ruotolo
Sep 24, 2019
Granulated latitude/longitude
I want to know where you have been, Where you have journeyed from. My shoes detect your past location, As I walk in your remaining...
Garrett Aadal
Sep 24, 2019
Baby Blue.
I am the unkept waves crashing at every edge of land, over and over until the end of time. I am the Twitter bird that harbours opinions;...
Priscilla Alonzo
Sep 24, 2019
Sober
You leaving, was like striking a knife in my thigh. But having you in my life was like pulling it out. You made poison become my oxygen....
Billy Collins
Sep 24, 2019
Interwoven
I would like to thank the toothpick sized sword and woven thread that follows, for the thousands and thousands of items that I use as a...
Aleena Ali
Sep 24, 2019
Guitar pick
Soft on my fingertips, small, strumming like a brush on paper. A piece of art. Thank you. For being there, through the hard times and the...
Rena Shapiro
Sep 23, 2019
Thunderstorm
I rise from the electronic portal of distractions splayed on my bedside like an extra sheet kicked off in the night. Summer's hot, damp,...
Sebastian Rosa
Sep 20, 2019
Thoughts made physical: Ode to a pen
Click and it began. My thoughts were made physical, Molded to ink characters on paper. Slowly the fine point stopped, Scratched and...