by Sarah Mackey Kirby I decided when I grew up, I’d have a quiet house. Where snapping wind-tapped twigs and magnolia leaves traced open window. Where vitriol didn’t bleed through walls, and slammed back doorsdid […]
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Tag: depression
in the end, who are we but little women fused and accumulated and ready to snap apart from the whole of ourselves like chocolate squares
by Amanda Pendley there are envelope poems fistfuls of you in my hands blown away only half on purpose and half by the wind held in and let out like a child’s emission of defeat […]
Grief Fruits by M.L. Rengots
For Cody, for me RECIPE FOR DEAD BROWNIES Buy a box of brownie mix. Set aside the ingredients. Fill the empty box with dirt. Bury the box. Combine ingredients above your brownie box grave. SONG […]
Haiku on Grief
by Grace Gilbert i. the mind is a room, &&&&&a child against the window listening for snow ii. drowned boy, still missing: &&&&&smooth stone in god’s deep pocket this wet, joyless thing iii. a sunken […]
I’d Forgive You If I Could Do It Without Hurting Myself
by Lucy Bishop Each time I try to speak, the urge to shout about the past rumbles in the back of my throat, growling Pacing like a tiger in a shrinking cage Trying to compensate, […]
Rage
by Kate St. Germain I took any advice I could get for six months after Lila died. I meditated, I socialized. I focused on the present; I planned for the future. I was counseled, I […]
Shadow as Time Swallower
by Sarah Marquez I wonder when it will be my turn to introduce my shadow to the family, my mama in her ideal world– of good men versus bad men, us versus them. Or when […]
A Visionaries Dilemma
by Sam Rebrovich The time threads knot Inside my calcium chamber Wild reds, and calm purples, plum blues, and sightful greens Make a mud mess slushy Nothing moves outside like sleep paralysis Yet I’m not […]
Hamartia
by Jordan Williams I didn’t mean to, but I wrote this for you — what started as a reflection on my town the way people here are white and laced scared of things without functionality […]
Three Poems
by Meghan Kilpatrick The Worst Parts of Yourself Find comfort in the unknown Nurture your body Every part of you I hope your confidence radiates I hope you stop criticizing Marathon Emotions Run To the […]
