Why You’re the Best Mother in the Universe by Inci Anali
inspired by “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” by Matthew Olzmann Because every time we watch a movie, you think we already …
Poetry
Erosion by Andrea Posada
I had a bruise on my shin for three weeks, shaped like the aerial view of a long …
A Holy Guest by June Lee
A Holy Guest June Lee At the bedrock bottom of your staircase, I was baptized into your religion, an unforeseen guest of sixteen sheepishly …
Sick! by Ari Daniels
Look at that tree! Struck by lightning and just toppled over, dead. Her crown has split, her sap is running, her bare roots exposed to …
Nothing (Somewhere) by Cecelia Blum
In a burning orb On a bed of ice At the supermarket for $4.99 a pound Can run Can’t hide May migrate to Mars …
The Tailor Ship by Inci Anali
I pull the thread hanging from the hem of my skin, and start unstitching myself. The split travels fast through the epidermis, revealing every …
Oversight by June Lee
Never mind. Never mind the bedbugs flopping around the burlap sack by your special reading nook. It stings. But you never pay any mind to …
Especially Now by Blake Lapin
Congratulations to Blake Lapin for winning the Poetry Award in the Scripps College Journal 2019 Writing & Art Contest! ~ This human form is divine. …
I took a step with no crutches. by Blake Lapin
I was exalted, For no one was around To pity this wide smile.