epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Blythe Baird [Baird, Blythe]

TAXIDERMY I learned love as taxidermy the careful art of keeping alive a dead thing this is the part that always hurts to write but how could I not when ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Emily Byrnes

(TICK BITE) We’re out of sync. Call it a rut or blame Mercury in retrograde— whatever makes you feel better about the tessellations we have become. Whatever makes you forget ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karyna McGlynn

FUN FACTORY Time packs my Play-Doh back in the trunk of his Fun Factory. The bright clench of our first apartment: old grease & rose spritz. The tight asterisk of ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:C. P. Cavafy

He’s lost him for good, as if he’d never existed. The boy wished – so he said – he wished to be freed from the stigma and reproach of that ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-25 | Author:Calvin Arsenia

I said not a word and I followed. I would have followed him into the center of the sun. When he stayed at his mom’s house, he slept in the ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Cyrus Parker

notes 7/23/19 6:09 a.m.: the sun burns when you’ve convinced yourself you’re not worthy of its light. i’m drunk and the lights are out. is this divine intervention? a sign ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-26 | Author:Franny Choi

I’m distance-skinned. No one can put a story inside me but me. If not even my memories love me enough to stay, then fine, cut off the hands that keep ...

epub |eng | | Author:Henri Cole

THE HORSEMEN After the flag juggling and the reading of a challenge, two horsemen charged the effigy of a Saracen— striking his shield with their lances. He, then, rotated, threatening ...

epub |eng | | Author:Saeed Jones

In our coolness, we birth anthems only we can hear. Hunters mistake the chorus for a Black woman alone in a bathtub. Let the pale reporters and their pointed questions ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tommye Blount [Blount, Tommye]

Bareback Aubade with the Dog Thicker than its master’s thigh, I saw that dog gnawing its leash— and didn’t I know better? Knowing my fear of dogs, I thought, “If ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Hafizah Augustus Geter

TESTIMONY FOR SANDRA BLAND, 1987–2015 After the miscarriage, she moved to Waller County wearing the ghost of motherhood and wanting to make old wounds foreign. In my bedroom, I read ...

epub |eng | | Author:Megan Falley

COCONUT VERBENA My father gets discounted tickets for being a senior citizen at Six Flags Great Adventure. The theme park assumes, because of his age, he will skip out on ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Rachel Wiley [Wiley, Rachel]

There have been too many fathers buried in poplar tree neckties, too many mothers in hangman’s pearls, for me to be run from my own home, for me to laugh ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Gibson

You are here listening to me tell you I’ve been stung by a bee twice in my life. Both times on the mouth. I still carry the stingers under my ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:June Jordan

A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters A few years back and they told me Black means a hole where other folks got brain/it was like the cells ...