POETRY | Puerto del Sol

5 days ago
2 min

Wanting to Know Why

when my son looks up at the beautiful clouds we name anything we want he says he sees a gun then asks why I don’t reply because ever...

2020 Poetry Contest Winner: "American Sonnet for My Medical History"

Babette Cieskowski

Nov 7
2 min

2020 Poetry Contest Winner: "American Sonnet for My Medical History"

I’ve had more than one silver tooth, had hair chin-length, blood orange, dyed deep blue. I’ve opened the mouth of a woman I barely knew. ...

Kieron Walquist

Nov 1
2 min

Here at FEARFEST in Columbia, Missouri

I’m rather unimpressed by the monsters that’re supposed to be scary: the hick with a toothless chainsaw & Budweiser-belly, the freaky gir...

Emma Aylor

Nov 1
2 min

Three Poems

Last night’s dream is the size of a thumb. I woke with the print of it, an arc unexplained, imperfectly pieced, the remaining mouth openi...

Renia White

Oct 24
1 min

aurify

in her town, A buries a yellow bird refers to it as a gesture of care because she can see the world in the small knows that a bird ...

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