Maybe I Hate Your Poetry
BY LILLY SABELLA Maybe I hate your poetry and maybe I hope you drown in your metaphors if you’d step away from your word of black microphones and spotlights dressed … Continue reading
blue…
BY LAURA CUNNINGHAM one, i love you, two i cannot help this hope, the geese spill the season from the river, you don’t look up you just stay squinting and … Continue reading
Why?
BY RYLEE KUHN Why does everyone hate me? What did I do? I look through the window at everyone else and all I see is beauty. I can’t tell them, … Continue reading
Empire of Mind + Three More
BY JOEL ENAMORADO Empire of Mind My mind is a society buzzing in technicolor. Its skies are saturated, gluttonous children, painted in mislaid lilacs and sapphire. They cry gold, showering … Continue reading
Hunting Season: A Personality Quiz + how to be both holy and broken
by FARAH GHAFOOR Hunting Season: A Personality Quiz 1. tiger pelts and rifles. 2. 17% fluent in portuguese. 3. singing lullabies to things bleeding into brown. 4. embedded … Continue reading
My Little Beating Bruised Heart + Charcoal Lungs
BY MADDIE MCLEOD My Little Beating Bruised Heart My little beating, bruised heart oozes blackish blue venom from its chambers. Glass shards, like flecks of confetti, cut my lips as … Continue reading
Cheater
By NOELLE MALDONADO A scarlet letter pinned to me, lips sealed, eyes glued shut I am a cheater. I am cold I am shaking As I write these words, Exposing … Continue reading
Etymology + If I Were a Compass, I Would Point East + Object Writing
BY NATHAN KIPHART Etymology 1 Inconsistency Let this word settle on your tongue Roll it around in your mouth feel its weight its burden Detect its flavor— bitter Feel it … Continue reading
I Had a Crush on Him + He Had a Crush on Me
BY INDIE NIA I Had a Crush on Him Imagination stains Reality For it forgets to follow the beat of my hummingbird heart And deliver you with smiling eyes and … Continue reading
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