P O E T R Y


My Hicks

“An // American gun trumps your Purple Heart prayers for American // times”

hadley volner

last words of a california mother

“phantom-moss girls // with seaweed bangles & || birdbaths made of granite.”

ema bekic

 

June in Nanjing

“Screaming rain, blood-warm rain dancing // against the tin roof.”

juliana pan

Green Yaksha

“When I was little my cousin would pick // me up and tell me I was brave to look // Yaksha in the face.”

alisha mcmillan

 

This Is Not A New Story

“feels the gold’s weight // the cold creeping down his hand. // Poor wife, he thinks, poor, poor wife.”

patrick keedy brown

sixteen

“such // pursuits aren’t fit for this lineage or // genetic code, whatever. hey! || i // heard you the first time // can you let me breathe now?”

aisha weththasingha