Poetry

"prep_re_ness" by Lindsay D'Andrea

"_ _ the game is to draw one / or the other to the end in pieces / until someone made whole / can swing _ _ "

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"I DO NOT REMEMBER THE FIRE BUT I WAKE UP SMOKING" by Joshua Walker

"My hands were not meant for prayer but they fold anyway not to God, but to gravity."

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"Oh no" by Corey Mesler

"Oh no, it’s one of those days when all the music sounds good..."

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"Women who ring" by Cathy Ferrell

"Women who ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies. We ashes. We fall down. We call. We shoot the shit. We gab, we idle."

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"The First Time I Saw Girls Afraid" by Erin Pinkham

"Mama won’t let me watch One Tree Hill / anymore. Ever since that one night / we saw Peyton and Brooke tied up / in the basement of Peyton’s childhood / home and they were screaming

/ through a cloth gag tied to the back..."

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"another naming" by Erin Pinkham

"you taught me how to say mozzarella / like the way your mother did and the way I too / was supposed to teach our children / i still can’t / say your name / my therapist says it would do me good / write you down..."

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