An Invitation by Noelle B., Tenafly, Nj I want to charm snakes in Bombay, rise in caste and mimic the Portuguese prime minister. ... Continue...
bob dylan biography by Danielle S., Youngstown, OH when you bump into her at the public library looking for that book you’ve been meaning to read (no direction home the bob dylan biography) ... Continue...
Dancing by Brittany B., Charlottesville, VA Disappointment is pink tutus, glowing sequin-y bright in the stage lights. Matching slippers pirouetting perfectly to the melodies ... Continue...
Grandpa Russell by Russell C., Versailles, KY That picture of you and me on the fridge Grandpa - Grandson I remember that day Watching the family play baseball I don’t remember who won ... Continue...
Horizon by Ellie T., Salem, OR Further than the horizon do heaven’s gates await A step beyond the broiling sunset’s auric eye There, in a palace of pleasure, all life’s troubles abate Cast yourself not into a grave; to reach bliss you ... Continue...
I wasn’t manufactured: by Amelia G., Grosse Pte. Park, MI a doll for you to hold and bring home, only to find myself broken, forgotten in the corner of your attic, wishing you’d remember what I can’t let myself forget .. ... Continue...
Migration by Noni W., Worland, WY My bones, like the frozen spheres of winter. Chatter against the empty hollowness of the bleak color white. Though some may find love within the barren trees and dangling ice, ... Continue...
Rhythm of Blues by Lauren M., Cincinnati, OH A purple film of harmony Breaks Like glass And Pain’s song drums, ... Continue...
Shattered Drops by Anonymous, St. Petersburg, FL There’s an enormous puddle at my feet. Each drop that created this puddle has to do with what we all don’t want, what all of us around this world don’t need ... Drop: Shame Drop: Hurt Drop: Pain Drop: Loneliness ... Continue...
The World Divided by Allie G., Fairfax, VA The world divided into the words on the page, empty and colorless, and those unwritten, undescribed, ... Continue...
This Love by Sayre W., Missoula, MT My nearly five-year-old sister handed me a colorful mess of glue, dry beans and magic marker. ... Continue...
To Be Said In Math Class by Emma L., Congers, Ny The once-exotic American Settles an old debt with ambition And forgets she once laughed among The cigarette-smoke-swirled bars Where withered, old men with flowered bags ... Continue...
vagabondia by Joan B., Marietta, GA this is the nation of the nationless its capital shifts from bus stations to bridges to subways, below overpasses, ... Continue...
Write the Snow by Tamara S., Rancho, CA Inspired by Erin Jaeger You’re ready; I can feel it. Rubbing words through linen paper with a fountain pen and colored ink, ... Continue...
Yellow Words by Amelia F., Califon, NJ Dissonance rang through the summer. Every night I slipped farther under the sheets. The heat wisped, blushed until it split a crack in the sky. I forgot ... Continue...
Yesterday by Christine T., Irvine, CA Yesterday we drove for miles, down A road that stretched dream-far, and As we sailed by cracking walls I Saw you in the freeway-ivy. The sun was in the sky that day; ... Continue...
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