Dear Andie, Are You Still Pretty in Pink? by Amanda Hawk
When you woke up in the morning with the popular kids’ approval crumpled on your bedroom floor and your feet aching from a stare-way of gazes, how did you feel after the audience had ghosted you? Come morning the headline gasps disappeared, everyone’s gossip draped over your prom dress, and their pointed tongues tearing apart […]
Forest Fragments by Jillian Stacia
I. Rocks chip away sleep from their eyes. Turtles snap their shells, broken necks, and scattered shards of forest floor. I see your face floating in the water, youth reduced to ripples. Faith falls through my fingers, washes me awake. II. Golden orbs circle tree tops, operas screech out rusty throats. Transformation can be terrifying— […]
Extinguished in America by Carson Elliot
There are things they want you to believe— that lie: I am not here. But I am here in the way I have spoken the names of living things to your children. In the way I show them how to feel rage and grief in their body ask them is it in your heart? Is […]
A challenge to America to listen to the land. by Anonymous
After Mika Westwolf Walking on highways is a crime, in these days we have been born into. But there is no other way home. Here, in America you cannot walk home. Even if you were born here ten thousand generations ago, even if this has always been home. In these days we […]
Wherever the body is by Tristan Richards
after Joyce Sutphen What have I learned from joy, other than how to run from it? Tonight, a single poem tells us everything we need to know about presence and I feel the past weeks peeling off of me, the skin of an orange in one piece. If this moment is fruit, I have […]
