Benediction for Ice Cream by Ana Marie Boyd
I can still hear the slow jam jingle of the ice cream truck gliding along past our yellow house like it was riding on rails Our yellow house that was found sitting casually one day combing her hair with French-braids and neon bangles hanging from her wrists so bashfully that she hadn’t learned yet to […]
Strawberry Creek Park by Christian Garduno
Pick a star, any star & I’ll reach straight up and grab it for you put it right inside your hot little hand we had some times and we had some scares now you act like you don’t care I just can’t understand You’re my Paris Point Zero you go dark on me and I […]
I Miss You When It Rains by Sara Beth Brooks
for Alex — a golden shovel, after Andrea Gibson The sky is still keening and so am I. What is too many tears? I let myself flounder in the grief like a fish out of water, drown in your ashes. Yearn to reach through the veil to hold your seedling heart in my hand, to […]
The Day My Son Googled His Father by Angelica Recierdo
It will probably happen when I’m at work, and he recruits a nosy, but caring friend with an AI-powered search engine. They’ll hush behind a grandfather tree two boys wide as they enter the name found in the baby book sticky with years of unopened pages. All four parts of it with umlauts over the […]
Bruising like stonefruit by Joanne Macias
Your gaze becomes a stare, forcing your views without saying a word. Your eyes tell me a story. One where I fall to the wayside. You think I am soft, that if you say the wrong words that I will easily bruise. That this is my only value. I can see deep within your soul, […]
