Photo by Angie Shenouda By Angie Shenouda Monday i take a razor to the top of my forehead where the uppermost part of me meets in the shape of a V and the blade lingers above the valley of my worry and with waterfall eyes i flick my wrist and watch dark hairs land on…… Continue reading widow’s peak
Category: Poetry
A Superficial Family: Two Poems
Photo by Brigita Przybylski By Brigita Przybylski Setting Fire to the Family Tree I’ve never learned how to love myself More than I was told to love anyone else And I’m doing alright now, I know I’m surrounded by my mother’s lies I turn away from the anger in my father’s eyes When I started…… Continue reading A Superficial Family: Two Poems
Matriline
Photo by Julianna Reidell By Julianna Reidell Great-Great-Great Grandmother: Egy bones bled, skin seeped, a soul slipped from cracked lips: And she passed, leaving kettő to carry her name — but not her story — over the sea. Great-Great Grandmother: Kettő fled like a fairy tale, for stepmother’s pinches can’t reach across the atlantic from…… Continue reading Matriline
Playhouse Disney
Photo by Kleigh Balugo By Sinclair Adams In the mid 2000sWhen I was 6I’d wake up at 7And tap mom’s arm to wake her upI’d ask her if I can go watch TV in the living room The squat gray cube would lightBleeding bright blues and greens and redsFriendly faces greeting me goodmorningWhile dad gets…… Continue reading Playhouse Disney
Bedroom Lullaby
Photo by Aidan Hurley By Aidan Hurley There’s this little girlShe infests my dreamsShe has a queen-size bedBugs crawl between the seams Pictures on the wallBut they’re not of herPlaces in magazinesFor when she sees the world But she has no planI don’t think she’ll leaveA dusty porcelain dollShe’s barely moved for weeks Take down…… Continue reading Bedroom Lullaby
i’m in love with my mother
Photo by Kleigh Balugo By Emily Coppella walk with her, all over her, beside her, i walk through her every day i (forget to) thank her. lurid memories i wring out again and again like how can i return these favours like how will we create the world when she’s gone crickets at night the…… Continue reading i’m in love with my mother
Be Patient With Me
Photo by Madison Kleinrock-Andrews and Kleigh Balugo By Madison Kleinrock-Andrews Please be patient with me. It will be a while before I let myself believe that we will last. My father left when I was a baby, and the only boy I’ve ever given my heart to didn’t appreciate it, handed it back to me…… Continue reading Be Patient With Me
Labor Day
Photo by Greta Unetich By Greta Unetich It poured all night and all day. The world is blue. I drove over midday and we walked in it, through the gardens and the woods and the preserves. Fog lowers itself closer and closer to the ground as early evening approaches, and it starts to rain straight…… Continue reading Labor Day
forbidden cotton candy
Photo by Angie Shenouda By Angie Shenouda when i was seven i put my lunch where my colored pencils should goon smooth fabric alex the lion roared &sat underneath crayons and crinkled worksheets and candy wrappersuntil summertime.when white fuzz smiled around the corners I knew something was wrongwithout even looking inside i didn’t remember packing…… Continue reading forbidden cotton candy
Fragments of Meals I’ve Missed
Photo by Rosie Lopolito By Rosie Lopolito Even after I had scraped / off the two-hour-old layer / of fluoride, bagels / tasted like artificial strawberries / and glue. Every six / months, a bagel / with a single, experimental / bite / ripped from its pasty side would end up in the / trash.…… Continue reading Fragments of Meals I’ve Missed
Kindergarten 