Category: Poetry
Imbalances
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Sara Collie I am 10 or 11, navigating some pre-teen cusp of selfhood when the question rises up, engulfs me, troubling that long sunstroked lunch outside the Cornish pub under the looming cliffs where I watch the waitress...
Read MoreVoyeurism
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By K. Olivia Overton Channel 62 at 2:00 a.m. features naked ladies and a man’s voice that guarantees the second DVD free sent in discreet packaging if you call now. Their shiny skin and soft cries made her tummy tickle like when...
Read MoreLipstick on Gravestones
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Elaine Server It’s my first semester and the local community college has all the gallantry and...
Read MoreEverything That Should Be Mine
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Bethany Gavine Enchanted by the subtle and effortless feminine around me The women in my life...
Read MorePRIDE: Poems by Cheryl Williams, 2024
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
Cheryl (Che) Williams is an artist, poet, singer, and songwriter from Boston, MA in the U.S.
Read MoreI think I might be a chameleon
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Alex think I might be a chameleon my identities are shifting like shades in the light. Maybe I’m a rainbow, or maybe I’m the storm before it, a mix of all that nature is, earth, fire, wind, and water just like that,...
Read MoreBi Umbrella
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Gia Choquette I wonder when the ice began to melt Thawing me into the truth Was it when her leg...
Read MoreUnexpected transmissions from brain to body
Sep 1, 2024 | 2024 Fall - Child Free, Poetry
By Neda Dallal You are blood, muscle, viscera Stretchy ligament and gristled marrow Behold the...
Read MoreEven Though
Sep 1, 2024 | 2024 Fall - Child Free, Poetry
By Bailey Merlin In another universe, I am a good mother; in this one, my mother doesn’t ask me,...
Read MoreUnintentional Mother Figure
Sep 1, 2024 | 2024 Fall - Child Free, Poetry
By Becca Downs I’ve grown strong in a universe dressed as a sharp-jawed man confident in the art of targeted cruelty and pretending to love me, just to show me a boy tugging on my hem to take me naked and whole and...
Read MoreComing of Age
Sep 1, 2024 | 2024 Fall - Child Free, Poetry
By Flare Henry Tieszen You have great childbearing hips The church women told me at thirteen...
Read MoreSalpingectomy
Sep 1, 2024 | 2024 Fall - Child Free, Poetry
By H. Roth I could easily exhaust myself arguing all the finely mapped out reasons I do not want to be a mother Ranging from the hazy hard to pin down and defend I do not want to through the agonies and...
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