Bids slowly wish.
With camellias.
With rose hips bee
balm with honey.
George Rapp 4th of July
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
Issue 23 Poetry
Public Fishing Dock
May 2, 2022
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By RALPH BURNS
We had to leave because someone saw my
father set his bottle down. Because
of something in us we leaned into one another
Breakfast of Champions
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
By TINA CANE
I woke up in a panic this morning thinking what if my love language
is granola? I found a quiz online but was too chicken to take it having had
Russian bots once read my face and place me alongside a woman holding a mango
or some bullshit in Gaugin
nothing exotic for me today
To My IUD
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry
I’m halfway home to Bed-Stuy
when I feel the cervical cramp.
I was told they’d be getting worse
A Letter to Leena
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
I came when you were born,
but soon the flying stopped.
By the time I came again,
we drove in private cars
Questions for the Night I Said I Love You
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
By ALDO AMPARÁN
Is he a saguaro burning in the desert’s shadow—or a sidewinder’s tracks on sand—
Have I left footprints in the snow of his dreaming—
Drop Your Coins From The Skyscraper of Love
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
And if you have no coins or skyscraper,
then parachute from your mind into blossom,
From Lockdown Garden
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
Left untrained,
the bitter melon’s taken over
the mulberry, dusting it
Adoption Day
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
Even if the sky collapses, there will be a hole in it.
Korean proverb
Our cat died before the towers fell.
Letter to Emily Brontë
May 2, 2022
Issue 23, Issue 23 Poetry, Poetry
I’m writing this from lockdown on a day
when the dogwood throws out its dose
of darker pink. The schoolyard
