emily bernard

Two Poems by Emily Bernard

TAKE A LEAF FROM MARY’S BOOK Virginal – winding as a wordy tour of a world For thrill rides – a four-minute toast to a man There is a limelight and you are green [...]

June 1, 2015

Locked In, Locked Out by Claire Polders

Minnie pushes her shopping cart down the aisles and thinks about getting a car. Not to drive it, for she has nowhere to go, [...]
Four Poems by Sloane Eliot

oxytocin waste of time on the sonogram, our mistake looked like an eclipse it felt like staring at the sun i looked until i [...]
Psychic Mountains Ten Thousand Feet High by Sheldon Lee Compton

Clifton’s home is the same as anywhere; curses and miracles happen in the same small steps, and the difference between the [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

Tightly Packed Sardines Forget the niceties And note the following: While you are tightly packed Like sardines in a can, [...]
Homeboy Chicken Weasel and other poems by Kevin Ridgeway

says he got her digits 13th-stepping at an AA meeting that he was going to try them out after he phones his sponsor tonight, [...]
Stomach language by Ashlie Allen

I don’t want to sit down. My stomach is roaring, but my mind is roaring louder. “Don’t go close to them. They think [...]
Lightwood by Steph Post

There was no one to greet Judah Cannon when he got out of Starke, so he just started walking. The sky was gray, the air [...]
Seasonally Affected and Disordered by Judith Cody

Sky stuffed with leaden clouds seeming ready to suffocate like a soggy pillow feeling like the regulation issue California [...]
A Milton Bradley Game by Hilary Sideris

The object, for a girl eight to fourteen, is to be ready, to swoon if he’s a dream, recoil if he’s creepy, having [...]
Monogamy and other poems by Nooks Krannie

is it ok to not like life but still like you? somewhat i’m proud of my breasts and my nipples are warriors like mountain [...]
Two Poems by Daniel Wallock

Barren Walking in, the hallow, whites of, the moonlight, my heart beats, silent hums. My eyes, shed frozen, tears, and my [...]
All types of powerlessness by Ashlie Allen

I like when I get dizzy and feel like talking about my misery after drinking. I can admit I am suicidal and laugh about it. [...]