Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
The Voyeur by E. Marie Gray Poetry Winner of Christopher McKean Memorial Award “You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman.” —Margaret Atwood From the mirror on her wall, between her tacked-up movie posters, my glass eyes watch her tie her shoes. I can...
Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
i pressed flowers in my diary on the chapter about you by Reeya Gandhi ivy vineschamomile leavessweet whistlingfollowing the midnight morning breeze. emerald greenstarlight eyesyour skin warmagainst the touch of my thighs. smudges of inkbelow the line of your...
Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
An Unbothered Cat by David Moneymaker An unbothered cat Stretched out on the road, yawning. Traffic is...
Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
Throwing Rocks at My Own Window by Abby Hanks in the evenings in which I am reduced to the matter of my own changes I lie in the green grass outside the house I drew and colored with My own hands to throw rocks at My own window trying to have a chat with the Woman...
Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
Muddied Roots by Keara Huson To my parent’s daughter, who dances stillin privacy of kitchen walls – glow of door agapewith harmonized hum of icebox B flat i ask you not forget from whence you camehowever tempting so to trade the rain-soaked earthin which your...
Apr 21, 2022 | All Poetry, Issue 5, Issue 5 Poetry
A Dream for Abreaction by Grace Barnett Eyes bore holes into themselves,trying to collect enough courage.They grip my nose like a handrail thatguides them downward andslightly to the left. There, eyes latch onto fatty tissue,deflated, sagging, stained whereindents and...