poetry
Wendy Kagan | After Costa Rica
“the untamed we coax / with tongue and skin.”
Lily Sadighmehr | Ceremony of Sugar
“You taught me the pet names only a lover should utter”
Lora Robinson | Contractions
“the aubade / of our shifting topographies”
Brayden Norris | Getting Over You
“I would watch through the darkness”
Leticia Priebe Rocha | Higher Power
“How desperately / our species has begged to be told how to live”
Brayden Norris | I Plant No Flags
“I / plant no hands in your hair.”
Georgia Hertz | In dreams my ex-lovers show up unannounced
“Still you keep coming.”
Michelle DeRose | My Son at Eleven
“Now all the quartz / he found trail-side weights his pack”
Ellen K Fee | scattered
“we watch the bluffs / become sky”
C. C. Rayne | Sex/Love/Movies
“they’re all out of Milky / ways”
Ellen K Fee | sonnet from the winter bedroom
“you tell me about each fire / you build”
Kylie A Hough | Total Immersion
“You are words on a screen / a day and a half behind me.”
nonfiction
Taylor De La Peña | Right Reasons
“But “Third time’s the charm” sounds better, don’t you think?”
nat raum | stoop kiss
“we waited for each other.”
fiction
Sadie Chernila | The Last Dry Moment
“he takes off his glasses to tell her she’s perfect”
Reneé Bibby | Mood Booster
“Listen, hon, you have to cultivate other dimensions of health and well-being beyond the job”
Sharon E Ross | The Paint Job
“She refused to fork out a cent to cover her walls with fresh coats of color.”
Maria McLeod | Where I Write You
“Forgive me, you’re waiting at my door”
visual art
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