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Elaine

April 29, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Sarahi Lopez

I smile at him, the words “I do” leaving my lips while the image of his touching her’s replays in my head

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April 29, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
marriage, love, cheating
Poetry
Comment

Wind Sonnet

April 29, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Anonymous

Spring 2022

The aspens twitch, electroshocked, and twist

in coked-up gusts—frenetic, finite.

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April 29, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
love, sonnet
Poetry
Comment

Surplus

April 29, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Anonymous

It’s Saturday, and we are so grateful to have a Sunday

tomorrow. We’ll sleep in.

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April 29, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
heartbreak, Poetry
Poetry
Comment

Lecture

April 29, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Anonymous

Wind teaches us our outlines, 

the shiver of skin cordoning 

the self from the world. 

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April 29, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
love, yearning, didactic
Poetry
Comment

How Many

April 29, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Anonymous

I once wrote to you

About a love that split me into two

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April 29, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
love, heartbreak, Poetry
Poetry
Comment

Derailed

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Jasmine Lunia

A life, derailed,

by winter's onset;

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
blizzard
Poetry
Comment

October

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Jasmine Lunia

I was October,

a shot of something unidentifiable

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
seasons
Poetry
Comment

Past of Dichotomies

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Jasmine Lunia

Honey-coated lips

brush those coated with blood.

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
Relationships, love
Poetry
Comment

Projection

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Jasmine Lunia

Achilles killed Xanthos

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
womanhood
Poetry
Comment

Adulthood

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Jasmine Lunia

You have given everything and taken everything.

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
Growing Up
Poetry
Comment

Words Spoken

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Anonymous

While the door closes

The last words spoken

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
Relationships, love
Poetry
Comment

A quiet death

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

By Efe Esemuze

Can I be so bold to say that I don’t believe it?

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
life, Death
Poetry
Comment

living life like a larkspur

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

by Emily Stimac

beautifully blue

skies above

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
blue, Nature
Poetry
Comment

An Ode to Miriam

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Poetry

From Emily

Her arms were around my neck and she was laughing,

She doesn’t do this much so it mattered to me.

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
Relationships, love
Poetry
Comment

The Lamb

January 25, 2025 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity, Mental Health

by Eleanor Dunne

Every Sunday, Juniper would go down to the church and get slaughtered.

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January 25, 2025 /Editor-in-Chief
Religion, Trauma
Identity, Mental Health
Comment
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