“A philodendron sat on his windowsill, exploding green leaves and vines halfway to the floor, like a tired firework. He didn’t have much furniture, or anything, really. I left my coat and bag on the hardwood floor. My shoes were already off.”
Henry Hua
Image: Grace Hauck, Blurry Lines (Spring 2017)
Read More“I am the dogbirth tree with deep, twisted roots and thick skinned leaves that make sounds when you bite into them. I bit them often as a child in the years before the fruit bloomed, a ritual enacted in both sweet curiosity and feral greed.”
Jerusha Crone
Image: Charlie Lewis, Hunger: Crushed (Fall 2018)
Read More“Fall descended on campus like a cold dream and I felt like I was losing myself in the transition.”
Chandler James
Image: Victoria Constant, Washington Park (Winter 2018)
Read More“We sit and soak in rain. / Below us, the city spreads, / a sea-locked soggy legoland.”
Alia Shahzad
Image: Emma Smith, Fire (Winter 2018)
Read More“All the love that can’t be returned / has pooled to level.”
Marco Harnam Kaisth
Image: Jessica Hwang, Fishermen by the Discoveries Monument, where the Tagus flows into the Atlantic (Winter 2018)
Read More“and when it is July / and we are trying to get to Riis Beach by counting train cars / at Utica Avenue so we can all get on in the same place / and somehow, we are all there because of you…”
Sofiy Inck
Image: Geoffrey Baring, On a Wire (Spring 2019)
Read More“I fell in love with you because you take ants outside. / The first time you were deep in a crouch on the kitchen floor…”
Claire Levin
Image: Nathaniel Bolter, Cold Spring Park (Spring 2019)
Read More“Before the bright, little worms get to dance in the corners of your vision, / and before the tinny flute gets to whistle just outside your head…”
Sofiy Inck
Image: Jessica Xia, Restless (Winter 2020)
Read More“We all lived a halflife in the bodies of our mothers. / She carried a whole half of you before you arrived.”
Sofiy Inck
Image: Amelia Frank, Native (Winter 2018)
Read More“Flags throwing haymakers/ at a salt flat sky/ Streets pachinkoed by people and/ siren heat…”
Miles Mikofsky
Image: Andrea Tábora, Fog (Spring 2019)
Read More“Girl sees godly bodies drifting/chit peng,/har peng /asks if they’ll fetch her back to Penang,/where she might eat the haram meat/in the wonton mee, no questions asked…”
Alia Ai-Ming Tehzeeb Shahzad
Image: Víctor Almaraz Argueta, Eckhart Hall, May, 2019
Read More“…As she walked, she noticed the concrete sidewalks matched the coloring on the sky above her. She took comfort in feeling like she was embraced by one collective, the sky and city working together to curate a concert themed gray. She figured her grandmother must hate the cloudy day…”
Sasha Diaz
Image: Dasha Aksenova, russian blues 5 (Spring 2019)
Read More“…Alone in a church,/I feel like I have/To reflect,/On principle/If nothing else…”
Theo Belci
Image: Afreen Ahmed, Water Mirror (Winter 2018)
Read More“Swinging so long/ That my brain becomes soup—/ Spinning like a swatted fly,/ Dizzy like a screaming siren,/ Dizzy like a dentist’s drill,/ So dizzy that I’m out of breath…”
Renee Kenny
Image: Carolyn Hammond, 蜻蜓, (Spring 2019)
Read More“floors/caressing, caressing floors, floors/caressing, caressing floors…"
Aaron Capelli
Image: Teis Jayaswal, Chamber of Ignition (Spring 2019)
“Burt ate all the fucking bees. He said the last time would be the last time…”
Abby Estes & Rachel Wurstner
Image: Adrián Mandeville, The Blob (Spring 2019)
Read More“this is the fourth poem/ i am writing about you. none of the others have/ blossomed into an orchard. the roots are choked/ underfoot with rot. the soil is stillborn, drained/ of meaning…”
Anonymous
Image: Victor Almaraz Argueta, Color Studies 19/01/18-6 (Spring 2019)
Read More“Mama is coming! She sucks each one up,/ gulp gulp gulp, for cannibal breakfast…”
Victoria Constant
Image: Alvin Shi, Triangle Mountain
“White satin coat—/ And pillows for our heads…”
Felipe Urrutia
Image: Haley Wellman, Evolution (Winter, 2018)
“I want to grasp your thumb in my whole / hand. I want someone to see me, / loved…”
Elizabeth Fierro
Image: Elena Whitney, Shadowed (Spring 2019)
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