Poetry: “SO IT’S SPRING” by Jacqueline Hughes Simon

& the robins are back dozens of them in the park but that spring, our first in this house, when I brought the baby back from (no matter what you think) a difficult morning at the park & our cats, who were new to the feral outdoors, had hunted like cougars amongst what I assume were birds unsuspecting […]

Poetry: “PROCESSING” by Amanda Russell

{As in, ongoing / fluxing;As in, computing and hold please and etcetera; As in, wait 600 minutes, and the anchor we never dropped, and how carefully can a person jump out of a plane; As in, whatever you thought you saw, stand over here this time—think again / shift / mend; As in, what didn’t […]

Poetry: “An Orphanage in the Philippines” by Mary Jerzak

you haven’t cried in yearsnow is not the time to starta fire breathing down your throat and your voice falling three stories hand-sized flakes of paint shreds of paper and ashes in piles and in the airyour own empty bed on fire the night outside filled with starsyou turn to watch the flamesin the black […]

Poetry: “ESTUARY” by Alison Hicks

Released from formal education, we set out, walked until we came to the edge,made camp where river meets ocean. Determined to come only with questions, we asked, Who are you? Marked swellings and diminutionswhile we waited for an answer,cupped our hands and tasted: in places fresh, others briny. Too wide to swim across.Blue crabs climbed […]

Poetry: “Threads for a New Robe” by Rachel Landrum Crumble

I. HusbandLaughter has carried usdown this river. Now, it meanders adagio. Once young and in love,we walked these streetswhile neighbors slept, so joyfulmy heart beat in my legs:Assemble! Chasse! We thought the night was ours alone untilwe heard applausefrom a darkened window,like distant rapids. II. Letting goJade river, rushing towardschange, and the mirror gives no answers. How do […]

Poetry: “Aquarium” by S. Rogers Ellis

They made their home within a concrete sanctuary Some adapted appendages and other parts of human skin To better interface with their watery brethren One small girl I noticed had a dorsal fin Another filtered nourishment from a swim These people were the most unusual I have seen And yet to them, their world seemed […]

Poetry: “Report from Salt Lake City” by Stephen Ruffus

Once there was an ocean here with the name of an ancient body. See the markings on the stone walls and imagine its fullness. Now only a lake remains that one day shall be a vast memory. My doctor reports that tests reveal I am dry as the moon’s craters. Living where things evaporate just […]

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Poetry: “Keep a Few LPs” by John Walser

Keep a few LPs on a shelf in a closet your favorite groups your favorite teenage afternoons with headphones singing so everyone in the house but you can hear. Save them so you can once in a while slip one for its jacket palm hold it by the edges like a child’s face blow the […]

Poetry: “Reckon Rigorously All!” by Saloni Kaul

As light as lonely swaying emptiness, buoying weightlessness all chantlike afloat, the one and only apt appendage, That floats in principle taut right above all the depressed states, revelling in movement for movement’s sake, One’s wildest thoughts and tight-locked bottled up emotions all slide across and dock like dulcet song in glorious homecoming Quite like […]