POETRY
POETRY: Lightly

I dreamed I was lying in the garden (its location, I do not know) on a ragged yellow towel with my eyes closed. The sun […]

Annie Yan
POETRY: Black English Major Speaks of Rivers

     

anasthasiashilov
POETRY: Panes

As a child I would open my mouth to the sky each morning at sunrise   before I got ready for school. I’d open my […]

keyicui
POETRY: Iterations

Once I saw a cow die on the street in Bangalore. Lying on its side, it craned its neck toward the sun. Blood leaked out […]

valeriepavilonis
POETRY: Incumbent

I found them resting together in the forest             before new year’s,   the rock a metaphor for stasis and […]

kellyzhou
POETRY: Beyond Dusk

All I can think of are the frogs –– the ones I cupped between my small palms at the creek’s edge. Years later The same […]

POETRY: Homicide #54

On the speckled playground floor, bits of stone collaging our knees, we admired a beam of sun you pointed with your glasses Did you know […]

POETRY: Kumiho

I. Undergrowth: lady in russet, her nine tails sweeping beds of foliage. Earth creaks on its axis as she bays for soft human liver.   […]

zihaolin
POETRY: Like Cicadas

  Like Cicadas It has been a tumultuous night. A smell permeates, a smell that means the presence of a stranger who makes things fly […]

ashleyanthony
POETRY: A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery

Last night I dreamed I was back in the study. I saw the green curtains, my sister’s arm draped around my brother’s neck, Mama with […]

The Shore