April 2023

I sit, as stuffed as a sardine, on a city bus.  I sink into the patchy, never-cleaned seats  that possess psychedelic patterns  like the ones… Read More »Remains – Clara McCormick

Gagging and gloomy from the smell of red wine, I sit on the floor,looking up at boys who have taken ownership of my furniture(and my… Read More »My Body Rejecting Red Wine on a Girls’ Night That Guys Were(n’t) Invited To – Clara McCormick

October has grazed  The daisies, among other things,  But the stems and buds appear black, stale, and sickly, Yet unwilling to cease entirely to autumn … Read More »Saudade – Hollen Spain

I watch the Spanish moss  On Port Republic Street.  Carolina curtains, hiding me in robes. Gray ghosts, chained corpses, fleeting flora Dancing, swaying, feeling.  Opacity… Read More »Stories of the South – Hollen Spain

When Strife has worked me through,   Her hands full of profit coat my wounds with wages,   The day by then is nearly done;   Not even… Read More »Polaris – Leland Calistri

I will lose you in my sleep. Chasing fragrant fever dreams,  I find you folded anew in the sheets when I wake.  I run the… Read More »I Think that Angels Master Flight by Chasing the Sky – Zoe Kemp