Tag: Poetry
At the Funeral
By Karen Schnurstein Her childhood church was exactly as she remembered: flooded in red carpet,...
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A Transition Tradition
By Laurie Wolfe Repeating your name Repeating your name to yourself ‘til it’s second nature ‘til...
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Pool Party
By Caitlin E. Price fourteen was puberty pores, fuzzy pits, oily pimples, and homeroom chimera...
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Sappho is dead
By Samantha Pious he said to a seminarful of nodding heads “I know you feel strongly” (he lowered...
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This Bird on My Back
By Emilyn Kowaleski If someone would have told me years ago that I was staring at the girl in...
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Two Poems by Cel Sanel
Plant Baby Compost me I know you read the ingredients as you kissed my back and can judge...
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Little Tornados
By Jess Berg A singular right hip— aches dull and constant like a toothache until it doesn’t (I...
Read MoreMiddles and Other Spaces Between
By Gabryelle Iaconetti Rocking the boat, I fell into the sea The confinement of the vessel was suffocating me I move through spaces between one shore and another They boast soft sand but hidden beneath are sharp rocks Treading...
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When I Am Old
By Skyla Allen When I am old with violet veins Like the purple petals in the garden My skin akin...
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Three Poems by Elise Salsman
Our Lady, Star of the Sea I, the derelict and the mother You, the faithful The oblation of my body is common thought And common law. All this hungry world does is affirm me, My breast buds, your eucharist; This immaculate heart...
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