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here, no one cares about your fashion. she was the only one in love with it: that gold, velvet durag that shined like ingots polished […]

March 1, 2025

FAVEN WONDWOSEN

Birthright of a nation

jack kerouac comes over to my house for dinner i sent him an invitation in the mail and he responded in red crayon, scribbled over […]

March 1, 2025

IVY TICA

POEM: Pinus Strobus

It could have fallen from any tree. A lack of naming, or perhaps of remembering. But I do remember this pine cone as animals must—not […]

February 10, 2025

AANIKA ERAGAM

POEM: A Letter

For every stamp I’ve licked and locked on my skin. For every darling I’ve mailed myself to. Rubbing shoulders with birthday cards, tax notices, divorce […]

February 10, 2025

CAROLINE HUBER

POEM: Punitive Psychiatry

You stayed the swelling flesh around the ignored gaping wound were gifted the bitterest of blames for your own suffering and never pardoned for the […]

November 15, 2024

LUKAS BACHO

POEM: After Kezia Stiles

At age eleven, Ezra calculated the age of the world by summing the years before and since the Flood. Its high-water mark fell above […]

November 15, 2024