Poetry
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By Jané Dowd Capricorn 𖤓 | Aquarius ⏾ | Aries ↑ which parts of my heart remainedible? it is old nowand withered are there still berries withinblushing and burstingwet with promiseand wantand if how long will they remainvibrant and valiantagainst thedark? you reachfor another morselbend down for one more bitechoke down heartfleshsurrenderedstolengobblegone the black stuff…
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By Rebecca Foltin Sagittarius 𖤓 | Virgo ⏾ | Leo ↑ Do not mourn the winter;that is the job of the mourning dove. Spring came yesterday to show usjust how good life can get, then left in a fury this morning.Spring is the worst woman to lose. I move through the woods, calling her name,baby…
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By Lori Lamothe after Yvonne Lamothe The app promises abundant sunshinein a season of overcast and mostly cloudy– of day after day where rainfalls from clouds and somersaults in mid-air, each drop performing its own acrobatics.The streets have gone gray and even the birds stay quietas if the only thing happening in this town is…
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By Charlie Lauter Cancer 𖤓 | Virgo ⏾ | Capricorn ↑ My foot fell asleep last Tuesday.I was at my desk, right leg folded,foot tucked beneath my left kneeankle pinned, compressed,dangling over the plastic chair. It was just after lunch.I like it when this happens.That moment before sensation returns,before the nerves revolt,holds me perfectly still.…
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By Jennifer Lopez Aries 𖤓 | Aquarius ⏾ | Leo ↑ the churning of soil underneath the tires, the bakingof windshields, the rosemary burstingout of its planter, the sound of my nameon your tongue, like it’s nothing morethan a syllable, nothing more thansound, not the restriction of this body,of this country, of this life. I…
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By Tayla Romance Libra 𖤓 | Virgo ⏾ | Aquarius ↑ look at the birdsfated in formationfollowing the break of dayand tell me that is not love look at the moonbound intrinsically to usthrough tidal ebb and flowand tell me that is not love look at ironwhat flows within our veinsmade only from bursting starsand…
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By Laura Tate Cancer 𖤓 | Pisces ⏾ | Cancer ↑ Driving home from school today, I see no colors,at least none to brag about, just late winter browns, olives, greys,all blended together, colors not wanting to be seenor heard. Fields where soft winter cornstalks blew in the wind – now shaveddown to ragged stubble.…
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By Jacq Schroeder Gemini 𖤓 | Aries ⏾ | Cancer ↑ My cat scratch got infected on October 28th.By Halloween rotten pumpkin gut spills down my calf on the front step.Cinderella’s glass slipper sticks in putrid orange puss,An apologetic candy bar melts in her cavities. A week ago plastic skeletons broke from the branches of…
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By Ella B. Winters Son Daughter for Wren You are changing,and I’m not really surewhat to do with the partsyou no longer havea use for. Thorax crushed,wings unformed,without a cocoonthe slimy mess of itdissolving everythingI knew, right in front of me. Still, the matteris the same. The DNAisn’t altered. Componentsrearranged, but the energynever dies, keeps…
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By Dorian Mackle Bayley Cancer 𖤓 | Libra ⏾ | Virgo ↑ i call the oceanon a conchwho tells me i spitthe rising tidewho tells me, to knowhow a whale tastes,she onceswallowed the moon. i put on starsto introducemy fingers to the rock pool crabsand there she is — tossing night acrossher scapula,biting epidermis cliffs,teaching…
A Curious Moon 