Hat and gloves. Puffer coat over snow pants, over insulated rubber boots painted with little red flowers. Slide down the gentle slope on...

The maps in the gallery are a mangled mess of roots: The east dragon and the west dragon can't seem to work out where their tails should...

to minerva— think confession; think candle wax gospel choir or a hand around my throat how could i tell you that it was not sacrilege but...

if animals could speak how they would plead when caught in a trap! like foxes from folktales praising our lovely furs and our clever work...

Ever since I left Things feel different now Suddenly the air feels lighter The breeze colder The sky remains blue when I skip class For a...

there’s four pictures of my autistic brother, David, hanging in the rooms of the house he is called Chube, Dave, Chob, Chupe, and Buster...

The beauty of the words that first bubbled out past my baby lips I’m afraid I’m forgetting how to speak. I don’t remember when memory...

When the mother tongue flows from my mother’s lips, her words and syllables flow like fragments of poetry, each hint of her accent and...

my eyes are stinging, the lifeless computer screen stares back at me offering no reprieve. my hand is cramping, and the pencil looks like...

they say your body is a temple so respect it and treat it as if you are worshipping a god but they don't know that i would rather set...

what more is there to say? they've said it all. i felt the discomfort, i changed my name. living is easier not easy. sure i have to use...

The world is fractured, broken, hopeless. The snow globe has shattered. The fragments lie wet on the floor. Adina Gerwin is 17 years old...

i like the idea of 1889. phoning you through their public booths. even though i’d have to travel to try and talk to you. hear your...

“I don’t remember” Is what You say about every terrible Word You’ve said to Me and every Terrible thing You’ve Done to me yet when you...

I was 13 when my birth name stopped feeling right The girl it was cut, sewn, and created for was now rough around the edges, burned in...

I thought it would be more difficult, sharing my soul with you, and yet I told you things I had never told anyone, not even God. How...

On the first day of kindergarten, I wore my Yankees jersey ‘cause Eomma said I could be an all-American boy. In the classroom, scathing...

And I saw a whale, Eggshell white shined with Petroleum. I wondered if the Blubber on hus bulging head Acted as a window, where he could...

Beauty is a Trick meant to Distract. A Sly Cat Slinking into an alley, Waiting for a Fool's attraction to be Lured. Social construct...

sometimes i eat away my worries yet i see it on my face. fingers knotted in my hair, butterfly kisses on my chin. it gropes me through my...