The Room Right Next to Mine
Where did it go? Where did my happiness go? The gray clouds moved in, chasing away the blazing warm sun and bringing the cold sharp...
Emmy Bitonti
Mar 11, 2022
Growing
A strand of hair Connected to you like a root in soil. Growing long and strong as the years go on. Being moved, put up, let down and...
Angelina Akdas
Mar 10, 2022
A single yellow rose
It was a peculiar place to leave a single yellow rose. On a stone bridge, built over a small valley, in the middle of a hiking trail. The...
Molly Dugan
Mar 9, 2022
Luna
I admire you on thick summer nights, sprawled out on wet grass, happy belly upwards, facing you. Through tired eyes, I see you framed up...
Jaden Lantier Stark
Mar 8, 2022
For when one door closes, another must open.
She stands alone in the street staring at the wooden post, staked into the ground as its hanging sign sways back and forth in the wind,...
Gianna Conte
Mar 7, 2022
Fish in the Sea
“Come on, Sylvie,” she started, “there are plenty of fish in the sea, I’m sure you’ll find a boy you really like at some point.” I...
Hannah Albert
Mar 6, 2022
Permanence
Why is it a human thing to love and cherish and lose and suffer? Why do you keep the company of precious people if you know the hole they...
James Boccone
Mar 5, 2022
Disregarded
You never said thank you. Like a keychain to your backpack, I completely completed you. The perfect accessory— appreciated by many but...
Alexa Beaubrun
Mar 5, 2022
Masterpiece
I’ll be a masterpiece. I’ll change the way you see. I’ll jog your memory of how beautiful the world can be. I’ll be there to point at–...
Haylee Caserta
Mar 1, 2022
Coconut Crab
The last time I found myself here, I was in a dream. It was not a nice dream. I awoke in a cold sweat, a stupor even. The coconut crabs...
Neil Palmieri
Mar 1, 2022