Noelle Currie – Lyman’s
Lyman’s My date with the orchard wasn’t long today A brief and condensed appointment I immersed myself in the stiff branches I greeted the empires and told them I knew them I held autumn safe in my lungs The hills were getting dressed as I pulled down the fruit from the sky hoarding memories among […]
Diana Chien – Too Fast
Too Fast Dusk fell too fast for me to appreciate the half-light, the trees growing in darkness. Sweet-sour smell of rain-wet earth. Grass a little too long. Golden pricking of pine needles sewing in and out of the dark pelt. I have grown taller since I first knew this place. But the trees outpace me, […]
Laure-Anne Bosselaar – Dusk
Dusk is music tonight — it loiters in long shadows, its notes dim the street, star the sky — even the mockingbird’s call is all melancholy. I stand outside the kitchen in a wistful disposition too — it’s the death of a day, after all. Yet, while time takes its time to steal the […]
Fleur Beaupert – When he said he wanted to call me a race
When he said he wanted to call me a race my knotted answer was not facetious it was throat | silhouette forbidden escape the intruders suggested i write about gender instead of race, race instead of madness madness instead of Blackness (when he said he wanted to call me a race he accelerated the construction […]
