【by Sadie Zeiner-Morrish】 The blue blood of the octopus had begunTo spill out and stain the sand whenI found its body on the shore. I …
The Ingrate
【by Maria Korman】 I work all week for forty hours To pay for rent, and gas, and food I lug the heavy bags from Stop …
The Fruit Fly
【by Ainsley Ralph】 Beneath the elms, my weary spirits rest. The crimson poets sigh their sleepy songs, Cooing barely stirring plumes on their breasts. Beneath …
thank you
【by Allie Mikalatos】 to the frogs, to the birds, to the rain on the roof,to the train roaring its sharp horn untilit fades away like …
Sutures
【by Reese San Diego】 Dad is right-handed, so when he cut open his left, it wasn’t a problem. He only needed one to sew himself …
Steak Tartare
【by Izabella Zohreh】 the yolky, yellow sun isswaddled by a sky that’s red,ribbed with fat and blood,only the blood isn’t really blood,it’s this thing that …
someone I sat with at lunch
【by Paulina Campanella】 I Wave at People in the Halls so often I wrote my college essay on it. Little fires spark with every cross-campus …
My Sister Far Away
【Sadie Zeiner-Morrish】 When the late-night dishwater trickles downThe sink through clogged pipes and out the side of the garden,I think about my sister far away.In …
My Mother’s Tongue
【by Aisha Shams】 My mother says, everything that we have can be taken, and what can be taken, will.She speaks many languages, but she was …
Mother of Lemminkäinen
【by Grace Fangmann】 Blessed is the womb that bore thee; bearing aboutA body hardened without bones, bloody without blood.Six-to-seven months spent stitching him together, thenStaring, …