Memorial in Spring
April flies in each year with a cape of marbled pink and white on its shoulders. The outstretched limbs of magnolia and cherry blossom...
Rena Shapiro
Apr 24, 2020
Lonely Respite
Upon cracked, tectonic earth, a row boat sits on a ledge of sand, still unclaimed. Brackish barnacles line the boat in constellational...
Lauren Gotard
Apr 15, 2020
Bloody Blue
Look at you— so high and mighty. Your royal robe soaked in the croaks of your rivals. Not drenched in red, but in blue. What a king you...
Jake Iaccino
Apr 15, 2020
Vulnerable
Ohio like a breath of fresh air. Too many tears can't go back. Toy pig happiest day of my life— Hit my head, dizzy feeling Loud music— me...
Tamia Lewis
Apr 9, 2020
The Game
You roll the dice You pick up a card. You'll move two spaces ahead, and then you'll pick the wrong card. You'll make one small move....
Cassidy Giudici
Apr 7, 2020
Falling
One quick kick, and down I go. Tumbling further and further away from your light. My reaching hands give up, as I enter free-fall. As...
Brady Mondry
Apr 2, 2020
Grandma’s Bicycle
She simply picked it up out of boredom— its rust-kissed frame, deflated tires, and that chain that made it sound like an orphaned bird...
Madison Fulcher
Apr 1, 2020
Sunday Sauce
I am the warm smell of a Sunday sauce Paused in the thought of yesterday— I hear loud voices, yet not angry ones. I see hands flying, not...
Jake Iaccino
Mar 10, 2020
Working
Throwing a dead cat into a freezer, cleaning the blood off my shoes, getting stitched up at Syosset Hospital. Leaving an old house for a...
Lily Robert
Mar 5, 2020
Time
It takes time before it means something. Time before reality hits and time before you realize that local pizza place has become a place...
Nathan Blank
Mar 3, 2020
