Poetry

TWO POEMS by BEE LB

I DOWNLOAD LEX FOR THE SECOND TIME and wonder if anyone will recognize me / hope not / hope so / hope i delete it again in a few days / after the reality that these are real people / which means / i’m a real person / settles in and i can’t help but itch // i make...

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ITHACA by Mabel Tang

what did the gorge look like?               thrashing water,                             boulders and pebbles smooth,                                            leaves rustling under the street lamps?                                            were there monsters in...

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THREE POEMS by Hannah Stewart

elegy for august’s sunflowers sand hasn’t filled between our toes in years now, hot under the late summer sun that coated every flower yellow. nearly dead and dry, but yellow. it was like a fire, our friendship that summer, raging harder than you’ve ever seen....

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TWO POEMS by Jaden Smith

Heroes in Tutus are Better   Let’s make a movie called Heroes in Tutus are Better. The Book of Henry meets My Sister’s Keeper meets Castle in the Sky. There should be a kid wearing a rainbow Jojo Siwa tutu & a Metallica shirt making rhino-shaped chicken...

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PENNIES by Justis Powell

I’m cashing in my pennies. They weigh about as much as A single heaved breath. The rickety kind of sigh That leaves a shadow of dew On the windows of every room I’ve ever inhabited. And when you scrape away the copper, You’ll find glittering pools of ocean tide And it...

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TWO POEMS by Chloe Rohl

Stained I peeled your body from the floor. Stained floor. The same floor, in the same room where we made you read us C.S. Lewis. So clueless, then. To think, we thought we had so much more time. Your time. A Wrinkle in Time. The wrinkled pages pressing flowers flat,...

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