Hiding from the crowned virus, and my landlord half waves, a downward motion, to the lemon tree who’s called the bees and small white moths to the once-empty yard these years in Kaimukī. “Has to come up.” White-teeth smiling as he speaks, and he hides behind dark...
from V ASH The palms were burned to make the ash. On Sunday, V tucked the palm behind the frame of the print of the old man praying. On Wednesday, she went early for her ash. On some plain Tuesday, when trees were reaching erupting arms to a sky tinged with impending...
DEWY BRUISES Blinking in a cusp of jump. My pupils are the welcome wells to ink’s inaugural drop. Having been the bee, awe-struck and humming in amber, having swum still in the slow, gold honey bridging time and eternity, having sat soundlessly atop the vibrations of...
At first, I loved the attention. Everyone at school had a sort of hushed concern that I had a serious health condition. The school was unusually permitting in their allowance of my absences for the doctors’ appointments. It was all of the spotlight and concern without...
Shipping Charges -For two-day poem deliverythe cost goes up over ten linesA poem overnightis even more expensiveThe UPS man is a limerick Load In Quarantine -When we took walksall we did was look at our phones.Trapped inside, there was infinite timeto hurl...
Laura Ingram is a tiny girl with big glasses and bigger ideas. Her poetry and prose have been published in over seventy literary journals, among them The Cactus Heart Review, Gravel, Glass Kite Anthology and Voice of Eve. Her first collection, Junior...
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times/2017), Coffin Bell Two (Coffin Bell/2019) in print: 2River, Adelaide, Genre Urban Arts, Gravitas, In Parentheses, Kansas City Voices, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Night Picnic...
Emily Reid Green’s poetry has appeared in various publications, including: Gravel, Khroma Magazine, 1932 Quarterly, Moon Magazine, and The Ekphrastic Review. Her first chapbook Still Speak was published earlier this year by Writing Knights...
Amber Wozniak is, above all things, an eldest child. She has an English writing degree from Seton Hall University and currently works as a healthcare program manager and editor. Her time outside of work is devoted to her true loves: her daughter, literature, and...
I thought I’d be happier to step onto American soil. It was home, after all. I thought it would be comforting or reassuring or something. I thought it would feel like home. But looking at the giant ass American flag across from the escalator came with an emotion I...
