Blue
By Sara Henning
“I date a boy named Elijah, Hebrew for my God…From him, I learn that heat is a measure of disorder.”
Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
Restoration
“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”
The Hollywood Glacier
By Maria Nazos
“how the body’s slow melting / is the only way / to open a hardened heart / the glacier you enter with dissolving”
Sand Flats, UT
By Emily Lawson
“but you held me down, just like this, / possessed, alien, godlike, looking at me, outside of / time—”
The Resemblance of Lopsided Appendages
“I look down / at the skew-whiff knobs / of my fingers, each wonky digit sprawled / out toward their stubborn / destinations”
(patos y mojados)
“we studied flight patterns in endless, borderless skies / the way travelers study maps.”
this our reckless exhibition:
“all alone & darkening, the lens / is nothing without its ambient light”
Poetry We Admire: Blueprints
“Anna Atkins, rock climbing videos, victims of expectation.”
Abecedarian on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
By Tan Tzy Jiun
“in murky waters, lotus plants / unbosom their hearts. pink capsules floating in clear waters.”