To the Beloved Moon
By Nu Yin ● 2025
For our lives
placed within
boundaries of darkness ,
She is …… a beacon.
Accustomed
By K.T.M (Mimi Oo) ● 2025
Came back home in the dark one night
Parked the car and sat still
KS 95 playing an Ed Shearan song
embraced the little cocoon I was in
Baye [or Baay]
By Oumar Dieng ● 2025
Sama baay demna
Demna ag pussiéru Sahra-bi
Ci kaw géej bu réy bi
Solitude
By Mugu Ganesan ● 2025
Tanha dil pyaasa hai phir se shayad yeh sham dhalne ko hai Saje mehfil mein mai ki dariyaa behene ko hai!
Since the beginning
By Mugu Ganesan ● 2025
Ek baat keh ni thi aap se shuru se
Aap acche lagte hain mujhe shuru se!
An international student, detained by ICE in Minneapolis, buys lilies for Easter brunch
By Sook Jin Ong 翁淑君 ● 2025
I want to walk to the grocery store, the one that gives me that big box experience, to pick out lilies, berries, and hot cross buns. April is approaching, and
My Mother Smoking a Cigar
By Loren Niemi ● 2025
It was on her 80th birthday That I offered and she accepted A Cuban. Her first. Her last. It was Mother’s Day And I had come to plant flowers To
Fighting B(l)ack Pain
By Davida Kilgore ● 2025
no gain no pain in the ass fast forward 2 inflammation swelling inflammatory response telling the body you hurt real bad pain prowls sidelines lounging hard words scrounging up adjectives
How the Body Wears Its Sorrows
By Joshua Preston ● 2025
limbs like vines reach for sky but find only themselves to climb the arms make a ring the legs step through & twisting bending writhing a man ties himself into
Upon learning that an angler fish is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand,
By Kait Quinn ● 2025
I finger the hard knob, now slightly larger than a pea, beneath the flesh of my right forearm, which the doctor told me was nothing to worry over, but now
Alive in the Mississippi River Valley:
By Marge Barrett ● 2025
bald eagle rises, climbs, settles atop an immense nest; cormorant; peregrine falcon; murders of crow ride fearsome black sky waves; vulture circles; red-tailed hawk hangs out; red-headed woodpecker drills tree