Poetry

“Violets Aren’t Blue” by Ayana Foggy

“Downing more and more as she began to crave the sight of her eyelids”

“The Tear” by Zachary McMichael

“Yet, still the void grinds at my skull like a saw/The absence of laughter which once warmed my soul”

“Cherries” by Erin Ryan Meyer

“Juice staining lips/Wrapping cherry pits”

“Piano and I” by Grace Hurd

“I could not cheat on Mt. Piano/I could not bring back the pain I caused/I could not tempt fate again/Finally, I couldn’t resist.”

“Seoul” by Soyun Rho

“There will be thousands of sleepless nights./Through our eyes, to me, to them, we say/I am not the only one crying every night.”

“Panic Attack” by Pamela Snure

“A tense skeletal hand/Gripping my entire heart/Squeezing my organs”

“Aerosol” by Melissa Mahadeo

“alone in my/bed i went/somewhere you weren’t”

Two poems by Annie Elizabeth Kreiser

“In my head I try to compose a/Cocktail of sunscreen, chlorine/Cut grass, coca cola/To preserve summer/In a mason jar/To sip from in December.”
– from “Bubble Gum”

Four poems by Emma Gerstein

“Beautiful chaos beyond limits/Life electric/Not for us to see except through tinted windows”
-from “Suadade”

Two poems by Elizabeth Oleska

“Restoring clouded faith,/A soul harmonizing with it’s surroundings.”
-from “A Light in the Dark”