Chiseling limbs in the wind, laughing. Willow, willow. I get married there, amongst the prime rib and dahlias. But even as I don the white dress and honeysuckle down the aisle, you are inside of me, singing of ancestors. I’m counting up your bones,[1] you start, before dropping all the dishes. Bride white bones. The […]
Poetry 100
Abraham Smith: They Paint
themselves with mud and the afterlives of certain pondy ass plants and they accomplice ‘at with a whole lot of throwing stoop and pitch stoop and pitch it stoop pitch hey what you can’t see can feel it falling but there again you threw it so you are it just […]
Owen Torrey: Tidal
As seen through the skimming Lips of the mesh rimmed catch. Caught Up in it. Left for too long. It being Tree tips shaken off to meet the much stuccoed Breast of pool bottom, breaching. The last time We left for the summer was the first time The earth began to turn. And after all, […]
Sadie Shorr-Parks: Good sleep
Tonight is wonderful, considering. Earth is never urged to be so indigo, so chilled. Two crows settled in my tree, a boring mutt of oak and pine outside my kitchen window. I see their rainbow necks twisting while I eat breakfast. Naturally, my dreams are no longer good thinking grounds: swooping shadows on noon sky. […]
Erin Kae: Q&A: (of World’s Anatomy at the End)
True/False: It is required that the Earth crack open, burst its yolk before the end. Is there a certain sound you need to hear? An anguish of language melted down inaudible—or fevered droning spread over all corners? True/True: Disregard the temperature, it’s only going to get worse. You avoid the sun, bed into the […]
Daryl Jones: Not Your Ordinary Doppelganger
In my teens, my father liked to wear my hand-me-downs, anything I’d outgrown: a lime green pullover sweater, pilled, stretched out at the neck; a gold-buttoned blue blazer, sleeves shiny at the elbows, threadbare at the wrists. His favorite, it turned out, was my high school letter jacket, navy wool, white leather sleeves, a big […]