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What comes after when -- poetry by Tanvi Nagar
When love begins, people question- how long, Will it last for infinite lifetimes ahead? When the shadows of love are outlined in the...

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Jan 29, 20211 min read


What we made -- poetry by Tanvi Nagar
I made stardust. Rather, we made it together, We mixed the ashes of our ties, Along with time-the famous healer, We simply let go. The...

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I built a rocketship -- poetry by Nikhita Makam
I built a rocketship, with kraft cardboard and Elmers glue that stuck to the pads of my fingers the epoxy of eternity on my epidermis...

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Jan 29, 20211 min read


digest -- poetry by Nikhita Makam
Words have never satiated me so I tear the pages out of the thesaurus I let the synonyms synergize my sins and the antonyms antagonize my...

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Jan 29, 20212 min read


coil -- poetry by Mackenzie Morong
how come the longest conversation we had in the past month was about snakes? what do they know about how to talk to you that I don’t?...

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Jan 29, 20211 min read


lunch break -- poetry by Mackenzie Morong
we ate 7/11 hotdogs together the first day we met sprinting back down the street stuffing them into our mouths laughing and praying we...

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Jan 29, 20211 min read


To the Strawberry Plants in My Backyard -- poetry by Claire Haindfield
It is a marvel that you grow, For the days I forget you occupy the same property as me And for the days I forget how custom it is for my...

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Jan 15, 20211 min read


Just a comment -- poetry by Luke Leonardo
A million comments are made every day ideas meant to be passed on A lie masquerading as a truth, a guise for what they won’t say out...

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Jan 15, 20211 min read


My Locker at School -- poetry by Madeline Shea Boccone
There’s a moldy granola bar in my locker And that sweatshirt that I forgot about The granola bar was in the sweatshirt Gross The mice...

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Jan 15, 20211 min read


Girl. -- poetry by MacKenzie Taylor
Girl. Fix that damn shirt— girl. Do your fingertips pass the end of your skirt? girl. You’re making their eyes lurk — girl. You’re...

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Dec 31, 20201 min read


Sometimes the Protagonist Needs to be Weak -- poetry by MacKenzie Taylor
If I ever finally open my book and read you the pages of my story I’ve left untold— do not praise me; do not dare say “you’re so strong”...

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Dec 31, 20202 min read


Nidhogg -- poetry by Zhihui Zou
Born from the same flesh, fed by the same tree, The gods, giants, humans, elves, dwarves sing— While he curls into the small space...

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Dec 31, 20201 min read


They Say About You -- poetry by May Lafer-Kirtner
“She has a tendency To hate all signs of clinginess” This is what our friend says about you. I think, You have a tendency To hate all...

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Dec 31, 20201 min read


Mother is a Good Storyteller -- poetry by Rumaisa Maryam Samir
Mother is a good storyteller Like when she says Daddy is dead But I know he isn’t, He stands in the corner of our little room, Littered...

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Dec 31, 20201 min read


It’s a sad world -- poetry by Rumaisa Maryam Samir
It’s a sad world Where the broken teeth and blood in my mouth, Eyes mottled purple-blue, Are no excuse, and I’m small minded For turning...

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Dec 31, 20201 min read


i am sick -- poetry by Tejal Doshi
i am sick of cutting away pieces of me that don't fit their mold of sewing on fabric over patches that are too ugly or too honest of...

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Dec 31, 20202 min read


rose -- poetry by Madeline Wadsworth
i am not a dainty rose painted dusty pink like sunsets and afterglows —rather the pink of dried blood from where my thorns jabbed you and...

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Dec 31, 20201 min read


The Second Time I Cradled the Dead -- poetry by Amanda Kay
the car is just scrap metal by the bend in the highway, where rock meets rock formation. how a raven first taught us that a skull is a...

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Dec 31, 20201 min read


Waiting for Invisibility -- poetry by Avery Russell
The blood drips down my thighs in fighting harmonies. Disagreeing on the weight in which to debilitate me, its desire to hurt me. My body...

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Dec 4, 20202 min read


can we get through dinner without choking on my guilt? -- poetry by Maitreyi Parakh
i’m not even human anymore, i know / i know this isn’t normal, that everyone else’s liver grows back overnight / that everyone else frees...

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Dec 4, 20202 min read
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