Dualities I slept with your glove (maroon, leather) woven between my fingers. It smelled like you. I awoke with your glove (leather, maroon) pressed against my naked chest. It smelled like me. How quickly you […]
Tag: romance
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 […]
Summer’s Smoke
by Sage Leona in the golden hour that lasts three months i smoke a cigarette &&&&&&and fall in love the warmth feels endless, and it is {from the tan on my legs &&&&&to the taste […]
My Love is on Paper Only
by Lucy Zhang My first love taught me how to fold a pinwheel. You need a square sheet of paper, he told me. But I had no square paper on hand, so we snuck a […]
The Storm
by Melissa Chappell Upon his bed of white linen, he laid me down. I was beneath him when the sun looked upon us with its jealous eye through the polished window panes. His hands were […]
Just Not Now
by Kristen Dunn There will be a time and place for me But I guess it is just not now The thread is unraveling And I don’t really know how Life is always moving We […]
Home Repairs
by Hannah MacAfee She stretched out and tried to recapture that multi-layered furnace between her legs, but it wasn’t working, it was dead. She said nothing as she lowered her extended leg back down and […]
Honeymoon on the Volga
by William Doreski This is our third honeymoon and the first on which you’ve spoken to me, to anyone. The Volga flows under our little room. The innkeeper wields no recognizable language. Your native Russian […]
