White Sky
Right now is the sweet beginning It hasn’t come in yet It’s all descriptions of light, land, branches, I’m oblivious to posture,...
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Poetry
This is where you’ll find a wide array of poetry.
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
Aurora Huang
May 30, 2023
Untitled
From the start, they urged me to see, "To believe is to know. Perception is truth." But then they silenced my curiosity, "Hiding is...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 2023
two pieces
i have the overwhelming urge to move away, but the problem is that i don’t know where to, and i don’t know where from i can’t move by...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 2023
radiator
i think that the radiator in my house may be broken the temperature gauge is way off, its either much too hot or much too cold; cold air...
Ethan Allen
May 30, 2023
Possession 1981
Bloody on the blanket And bleeding out Sopping wet and pathetic And you want to hold it You want your arms With cuff cuff muscle Muscle...
Mingzi Ma
May 30, 2023
The Wait
The man chair is in great pain waiting for the arrival of a loved one The boundaries are set and no one can come close At night, blood...
Mingzi Ma
May 30, 2023
Bring Your Umbrella
It’s raining. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’.
Melanie Juarez
May 30, 2023
Sundays Pass Quietly Now
There is cooking, and washing dishes, and every afternoon the bed gets fresh sheets, crumbs from the past week swept off the surface of...
Nathalie Rozanes
May 30, 2023
Love
Love in triangles Love in pairs Love in opposites Love in equals Love retroactively Love the future Love in circles Love in waves Love in...
Sidne Kate
May 30, 2023
Lessons From Beneath the Soft Dirt (Autumn)
Autumn 1. The leaves are far more interesting than the house. From the front yard, the house seems grand. But from your fixed position in...
Hazel Meerson-Hendrie
May 30, 2023
A discussion between artists
She asks me What do you do and I tell her Pick a word from the library of everything you know and make it real and Find the greatest most...
Xiran Sunny Sun 孙熙然
May 30, 2023
Garden in the Wild 野外的花园
The concept of “Self” is an incredibly fragile one, resembling a wool-soft slime with a hint of vitality. Just like a newborn, it blinks...
Ezra Agustin
May 30, 2023
If this is the end
if this is the end, then when did it start? Life is eternal – infinite I am the sun the soil the water the air purify what is unclean and...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 2023
Envy For The Trees
I often find myself feeling envy for the trees Their roots reach down, deep down into the earth — Grounding them to one place forever I...
Kira Palmer
May 30, 2023
Cirrus
Pinching lightly Against my head Your head pulses Against you I lay softly With you I fall Clenching you tightly Against your chest My...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 2023
Cicada
When I was younger I lived in an area Where the cicadas sang loudly and vibrantly The trees seemed to vibrate and buzz during the summer,...
Ethan Allen
May 30, 2023
Brick and mortar
I wonder about your shoes Did you save for them Bit a fingernail, clicked purchase Were they a present from your mom Practical, wink wink...
Adia Cupid Davis
May 30, 2023
Beautiful Decay
3:00 pm: Still no signs of resurrection It has been so long since you last departed. Another hard battle fought and won A professed evil...
Ceilidh Birkhahn
May 30, 2023
AM / PM
Sometimes I wake up and I’m empty, ribcage hollow, And I take a pill and I think I should be able to hear the capsule clattering down, a...
Els Deitz
May 30, 2023
a salt shaker for so many past unkings
It is that I should learn so much of a soul backwards, snow rising off the mountain trembling air sprung and singing, singing, shoulders...
Isabela Ortega
May 30, 2023
Stages of Sainthood
candle wax dribbles Finish the last box of multiplication as the sound of howling gets louder. A man’s muffled screams and a dog’s...
S. Mark
Jan 22, 2023
Specimen Poems
A drawing of three poems pinned into the wall: each follows the structure for labeling insects in collections, with a species (or title)...
Bonnie Kim
Jan 21, 2023
obsessed with love
we hesitate to stray away from fixating ourselves to another person or dive in too fast too deep our heart sways with emotion fast...
Aurora Huang
Jan 6, 2023
He
He stands in the red hall, Follow his arms, asking you to complete the tasks in his call. He builds up a high wall, Worship his charm,...
Steven Hou
Jan 6, 2023
Nothing Happens
Each room is a miniature for some larger doll house. All pleasure. Every room is devoid of air—just objects—not lived, but performed....
Ava Marie Hockey
Jan 6, 2023
God's Country
I am not anywhere, Somewhere in the south. Somewhere in the south, You said I’d be a good mother. That, And another, still. Holy, Pouring...
Jay Fiedler
Jan 6, 2023
Funerals are for the Living
I think a lot about my funeral When I was a kid, I had a ridiculous fear of death - Which I later discovered was a symptom of childhood...
Alex
Jan 6, 2023
Homesick
I wish there was a boy to write poetry about me I wish I were a boy to write poetry about
Alex
Jan 6, 2023
around 9PM
I can not see the moon and I want to be dead (someone else) Not so that I could see the moon, but so that I would be someone else...
McKenzie Fitz
Jan 6, 2023
Just A Thought
You & I are covered by blankets In nothing but our underwear My head is on your chest Your face is buried in my hair Whispering sweet...
Bella Koschalk
Jan 6, 2023
Aphorisms for In-Between Souls
A soul can get stuck walking up and down the stairs of an old house. Sometimes you will feel like you are squeezing past someone who is...
Fiona Duffy
Aug 10, 2022
Anathema
Now that the light is fad i n g the south stares from across the earth. The north has already been d r a w n of its color. As I go...
Alexa Nodine
Aug 8, 2022
the dictionary i will bury with you
concave (v. kon-keyv) 1. to allow myself permission to languish into the cavity of my chest and hide amongst hollow bone. 2. i wonder if...
Penelope Gerdes
Aug 8, 2022
Bitch Broken on Anger at the Top of the Mountain
Will I be seen through blurred eyes i cant see me me is unseen to mee I am what is was will be be be repet itiion on drummmm bed snore...
Fiona Duffy
Aug 8, 2022
Dream #5
Azure smeared blush. Morass garden. Confusion. Foraging. Heaviness. the question wades against her lips awaiting the tongue’s surrender....
Pascale Jarvis
Jun 14, 2022
Untitled (Whelks)
I. LONG BLUE BODY I named my habit the White Lady [death loves white] two years ago: nineteen. The White Lady and I, we thieved we stole...
Connor Fenwick
Jun 14, 2022
Domain of Queer Sexuality
Vision is abstract, touch is figurative. The Female and the Almost. Or eye, a sense of space, as a specter on a coffin (and falls in the...
Mayra Sanchez
Jun 14, 2022
My Mother vs. America
My mother has the kind of celestial tongue that is too pure for English. First time going to Miami – one small bag in one hand and hopes...
Pascale Jarvis
Jun 14, 2022
Psalm for the Eve of Election Day
Don’t let the rest of us become white crosses decorating your lawn. Our bodies are not meant to stay whole— we are steeple-top...
Penelope Gerdes
Jun 14, 2022
Queer Messiah
Where will our ark disembark? Will there be better lands stretched forth where we can hold all our siblings? I want to have that hands-on...
Diamond Woods
Jun 14, 2022
99 Writing Prompts
1. “I confused today with last week. Who did we lose?” 2. Write about your fist fight with God. Who will win? 3. Write an article from...
Chloe Cottom
Jun 14, 2022
Amen
I can feel the sooty soil rolling down my crooked spine. There are a million tiny particles contributing in its filthy composition, each...
Isaac Hart
May 14, 2022
Gum in the Works
I. Cranberry cranberry Van nearby hands of god— Given Ron Livingston Wrong bitters, gone with his sled, Bong giving head. II. Honored,...
ai chéri
May 14, 2022
IRIS
the darkness begins beyond the horizon forming a choppy skyline beneath your lash line upon blinking the singular cilium parading as a...
zsa zsa helmin
May 14, 2022
untitled (my God is not a man)
my God is not a man in my mind He can’t be anything. for i can’t comprehend what would lie at that edge of Knowing could forgiveness not...
Briseis Schreibman
May 14, 2022
Iamb Alphabet
aa aum aa aum ba bum ba bum ca cum ca cum da dum da dum ea eum ea eum fa fum fa fum ga gum ga gum ha hum ha hum ia ium ia ium ja jum ja...
Fiona Duffy
May 14, 2022
postcard from wood street
this swollen september grazing against hurriedness and possession. walking past half-gnawed apples made my stomach bright with nostalgia....
Sam Donnell
May 14, 2022
Jigsaw
I hold no ill will towards my thirteen doppelgängers. Their minimal existence is a piece of me now, Each another collected story this...
Peyton Sauer
May 4, 2022
2 the consequences of missing an eyetooth
baby angel teeth bath tiles shiny and stacked in a row inside a velvet-lined silver tin with a name engraved on the top the...
Peyton Sauer
May 4, 2022
1 a birthday in may is so fortunate
catching a robin as a promise (a birthday in may is so fortunate) a small porcelain face presses through the stained orange slats of a...
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