Tethered and Tied

by Holly Day | Dec 23, 2019 | Poetry

The little ships fly off and disappear like the seeds of a dandelion head / carrying with them the wonder and dreams of the people left behind.

Lesson Plan

by Holly Day | Dec 9, 2019 | Poetry

I light the classroom up with the map of the night sky and point out / some of the more recognizable stars clusters to the children in the room.

Kirby; Or Everything I Needed to Know About Consumption

by Michael T. Smith | Dec 5, 2019 | Poetry

I’m buried in hypocrisy, to look like a pink and innocent toy, acte clair — the good guy, a pillow for those in need to lie on, but instead bequeathing labor, when working hard is just a yarn that was told, to those not too old in the brain to mold

Talking in Circles

by Holly Day | Dec 5, 2019 | Poetry

The automatons in the manufacturing plant express themselves with lightning, / send messages in blue and white fire from one end of the warehouse / to the other.

Social Media Manticore

by May Chong | Dec 5, 2019 | Poetry

Now you rest, I chuckle, / the world kindles and kills / itself without us.

Litmus

by Shirish Gopal Deshpande | Dec 5, 2019 | Poetry

I am but an inconspicuous bubble, / at the tip of this burette. / failing all your titrations, / as I grow/ towards your eyes, / speck by speck.