Category: poetry
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A Heart Smaller Than a Man
Poem by Javier Spurlock Art by MacReady Bryd If you wanted to know what a real man is then you should of grown up with me A real man always spends his time outside A real man always puts his family first A real man doesn’t kiss Boys It’s true;…
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Kinds of Kindess
Written by Julian Dindal Art by Lily Anderson a memorial benchmaple leavesskinny twin treesalone with Chachi, rest in peaceforked paths rustling leavescreaking trunksthrashing and bobbing, the foliage rave their fingersstretch out and cross. the creation of adamin the skylike a pinkypromise.distance between, but from this perspectivethey look crossed.tingling like two…
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Church Street Poem
Poem by Audrey Orenstein Art by Hadley Rae-Balmes My new dormitory requires two keysI asked myself “how do I keep track of these?I can’t have them loose in my pocket, no way!”It was then that I realized that I’d have to payFor a keychain to make them inseparableAfter that, my…
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New York Pizza: Rat-Sized Bites
Poem by Sarah Chack Art by Seven Descheneaux A yellow line confines us to this place, keeps our feet racing across the cracks in the pavement; these are the ley lines of a small world, newly founded magic borders that not even the strongest of us dare to cross. We…
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Firstborn
Poem by Abriella Guertin Pictured: Abriella’s Mom, 2009 a month and five days after 9/11 fourteen days before her 21st birthday my mother had a son a miserable baby colic and constantly crying a list of allergies longer than her loan payments first gen but still stuck in the family…
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Lambskin
Poem by Sarah Chack Art by Lillian Anderson TW: Gore Her skin is stretched too tightly; she feels it reaching its breaking point as it strains to hold itself together over bones that are soon to be dust-bound, pounded by time. The flesh pulls itself taught, elongates until it becomes…
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Punk Show While the Cattle Sleep
Poem by Julia Cote Art by Seven Descheneaux I want answers and sometimes I get them, but even then, The truth is only a word. Maybe I always knew this, but, I’ve always liked my music Louder than what Scares me. Moths in the dark farmland, we Jumped around in…
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The Art of Kintsugi as Survival: Stillbirth
Poem by Sarah Chack Art by Lillian Anderson A baby was removed from its mother last night. Its unformed, bird-like, bone fingers grappled for something to hold onto as it wailed and weeped, burrowed deeper into the flesh of her womb: a dying leech, a lost treasure, failure of a…
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The Weight of a Daughter’s Body
Written by Sarah Chack Art by Julian Dindal I was ten the first time I realized my mother wouldn’t look me in the eye, not directly, not purposefully: a two way mirror that had, now, become one way. Sitting on her bed, halfway between child and adult, a weight that…
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November
Poem by Rylie Waterbury Art by Justin Bissonette January was a still month. I recall the smell of vodka sauce. The wind nips hard this time of winter. I hated February. I felt no love. At least it’s short. March was the devil on my shoulder. All was lost and…
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