Distilled in silenceThe eerie soundof empty spaceencompasses every aspect of life Total sense of reality is robbed when you pass soundlessly through the world Is…
Posts published in “Literary”
Phobos/Deimos
By JULIA KLEINBERG on October 2025
i cannot will not put into words the words which pound through my own veins corrupting lungs intoxicating my very muscle fibers while my limbs…
Soot
By SOL JORDAN on October 2025
It’s a cool night in early August. Just soon enough in the season to shake off what we call reality and not late enough to…
Your Thought and Prayers
By SUSANNE GUIMBRETIERE on October 2025
Content warning: blood, death, guns, school shooting Thank you for your thoughts and prayersI’ll take them to my grave But thoughts can’t stop your bulletsAnd…
bowline
By ZADIE WANG on October 2025
it was easy to lie for a whileto let wind tangle truth back into my throatlike fishing line and yetwhen my name was said as…
In My Mother’s Head
By CORALLUS MEEKS on September 2025
In my mother’s headthe poetry writes itself whether it bethe warm sunlit lake wateror a cooling offshore windagainst her poised figure whether it bethe sharp…
Unknown Brand. $5.
By ZADIE WANG on September 2025
I am beautiful gingham printorphaned for five dollarsat the resale store they love to hold mewhile my hem unravels and call me vintage.
Un-American (adj.)
By ACE DUFRESNE on September 2025
1.to choosefamiliesyou won’t meet.to choose. 2.to breathe inmore smokethan allotted.to breathe. 3.to diefor your child’schanceto live.
Do Me a Favor
By JULIA KLEINBERG on September 2025
Do not pity meFor my qualitiesFor my quantityI’m not yoursTo Judge Do not change meThe core thingsThat make meI’m not yoursTo Mold If you want…
A Fleeting Existence
By CORNELIA YE on September 2025
Most of their ephemeral lives are spent sealed in plastic bottles,waiting to be freed by the careful breath of a child. Their firstimpulse is toward…
Wild Child
By CORALLUS MEEKS on June 2025
Naked she greets this worldso before it dresses her she’ll run freea wild child before she is told by the same world her body is not her own but owned…
With My Last Breath
By SUSANNE GUIMBRETIERE on June 2025
Content warning: Violence, war, forced labor, death, suicide. “Georgina … honey, you’ve gotta wake up.” My eyelids feel like weights as I slowly blink them…
Erysichthon
By JULIA KLEINBERG on June 2025
Content warning: eating disorders, death. I wonder if, and if so, howI stumbled on Demeter’s spiteAnd brought upon myself the curseOf never-ending appetite I picture…
Lucky
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on June 2025
Gold-rimmed glasses fog up.Pearls and diamonds glitter sharply on stubby fingers,Contrasting with the withered life formsBy the side of the road. Dark outer covering, Hurtling through…
Our Flowers Bloom Again
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on June 2025
The flowers bloom again,It hurts.Breeze smells of your perfume –It’s worseThan I ever thought spring could be.Is this the love you spring on me? Butterfly…
Untitled
By ZADIE WANG on June 2025
Content warning: animal cruelty, blood, death, guns. Tell me how a bird learnsTo forgive the gun that shot it down When it first hits the…
Home
By ACE DUFRESNE on May 2025
The cage was beautiful.Bars plucked like harp strings.Stinging imprints on fingertipsSacrificed for sound. The cage embraced me.My cushions custom-made.A letter to my liberators:Conditions humane. The…
Elegy for Pogačar
By NATALIE PATRONE on May 2025
For sure, I felt the call of gods on highWhile reaching forward, smiling from my teeth,I glanced out far and watched the fading sky,And left…
When Fear is Dream’s Excuse
By CORALLUS MEEKS on May 2025
Author’s Note: This poem is a translation and interpretation of “Cuando el miedo es el pretexto de los sueños” by Yanira Marimon. Fear,a trite word.The…
My heart doesn’t fit right, too large for its contentsCompacted by ribs that have nowhere to go nowBut in It’s one step from cracking–an empty…
Part 2: Blood in the Water
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on May 2025
There’s a calm after the slaughter,That no one’s left to witness.There’s blood in the waterThat the earth’s left to digest. But when the wounds run…
The “Unimportant”
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on May 2025
Brown chestnut falling;Catching the little glints,Those sun-kissed ridges of a long-grown shell. Passing aimlessly,Unencumbered by the passing breeze,Uncertain of direction and nonplussed by dissection. If…
Where I Won’t Die
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on May 2025
So long little humdrum worldThe blue dot that I seeDisappears before me Farewell little-known cherry treeFor we won’t meet againUntil final victory Goodbye baby dollI’ll…
the Cliffs
By ZADIE WANG on May 2025
The cliffs were once stoic and shoulder-broadLauded by the deep ocean below forNursing fossils in their stone armsAnd wearing time like armor. But now they…
Art
By ACE DUFRESNE on April 2025
The darkness spread slowly but surely. It enveloped every grocery store and shushed every dinner table. It blanketed the city, obscuring all notions of a…
Dissolution
By CORALLUS MEEKS on April 2025
Come down and snap my dead branches Let summer greet me in my state of amateurity And fully embrace my rebirth Descend upon our wasteland…
Dear Little Girl
By REAGAN JOHNSON on April 2025
Dear Little Girl You are as strong as a tree that survives a hurricane You are as brave as a single mother of 3 kids…