Poetry, CNF, and Graphic Essays.

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Ellie Francis Douglass

Anthropomorphizing the Orchid Lowering my nose to the waxy petals, I’m kissing you goodnight in the hospital again. Your lips smelled faintly of sour milk, those protein...

Delia Rainey

Bird of My Past If I touch you but you do not wish to be touched, I may feel ashamed. Bird of my past – I imagine...

Kathleen McGookey

I’d Like to Think Someone is Listening Why else tell what it’s like in my house full of machines? I like being alone but my...

Brenda Miller and Lee Gulyas

Come Closer A collaborative essay So come closer, come into this. There are birds beating their wings beneath your breastplate gentle sparrows aching to sing…. —Anis Mojgani “Feb *...

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Dear Ms. Rankine, I am reading Citizen amid a whirlwind of a road trip, travelling from Florida all the way up to Wyoming, and everything...

Mathew Pereda

Chasing The man looks uptown, spies the alphabet ducking into a cab, watches as it goes north toward the river, then starts to follow. He feels in his...

Karen Craigo

How to Kill a Mouse The cat emerges from beneath the couch, between my feet, with a mouse in his teeth. It is his fourth...

Helen Wickes

Secret Lives of Trees January afternoon, the wind puts its nose on its paws, sun shining gamely through a sky the blue of purest gold—seven geese nosing...

Amorak Huey

Nocturne with Poor Decisions That time, say, you shoved me against the wall and we pretended we liked things rough. We don’t have to live in separate...

Jennifer K. Sweeney

On Not Being an Axeman Swing the apple blade, maul the ash. A cutting of late honeysuckle in a penny vase. I have romanced hawks and fieldstone and the notion...

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