Mother
By Rongfei Mu
“But I know you’re listening, / From the pale blue waves on the monitor / That I ride.”
By Rongfei Mu
“But I know you’re listening, / From the pale blue waves on the monitor / That I ride.”
By JC Andrews
“I ask you to marry / me there and pretend / my name is Joshua.”
“the women’s heart-shaped / faces like pale evenings cracked / with elegant longing for assignations.”
By Sarah Carey
“In my 30s, I seek // and scan. A broadcast warns / of thunderstorms on the horizon”
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By Holly Zhou
“I bubbled at the mouth. / But you kept me safe, kept my glass clean. / Close.”
By Ren Wilding
“At the pharmacy, I pluck butterfly wings / from my wallet to stop / anything from fluttering in you.”
First, read the following poem; She Spent A Year Hallucinating Birds by Jill Alexander Essbaum https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92035/she-spent-a-year-hallucinating-birds They perched …