Tag: Poetry

The She in Me

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Kaylee Baucom I’m a pony-tailed girl in church Watching you talk under the cross Dressed in white with no sin I’m a little lamb sleeping on green moss I’m a lipstick tube In the brightest red you’ve ever seen Paint my kisses...

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Strand

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Terese Coe Say what you said in the car last night, say a little more. We are the sea with a crested wave drawn to a distant shore. As once we lived in rivers as once we tumbled to seas, as once we knew by scent and sense the...

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Allies

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Terese Coe I was the spy who came in from the cold and you were the cold, my dear. One day timid and one day bold, and never distinguishing courage from fear. Terese Coe’s poems, translations, and prose appear in Cyphers,...

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Chaperones

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Enjay DeGuzman I forget how it comes up, and I haven’t planned it, but I say something like I’m bi. Sitting on the hotel bed across from this new friend and fellow chaperone in a double room in another country, our high...

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