A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life by Rose Cook
“Be still sometimes. / Be still sometimes.” — Rose Cook
Elegy for My Ninth Grade Natural Science Project by Sarah Brockhaus
“They didn’t know what their wings were / for. I’ve made my life an apology ever // since.” — Sarah Brockhaus
My Mother’s Hair by Nancy Holmes
“Two years after my mother’s death, I walk / in the soft, searing claws of the sun.” — Nancy Holmes
not a perfect person by Kristin Lueke
“i’d like to be loved. / just not too much. lord, let me never / be needed.” — Kristin Lueke
Center of the Universe by Hannah Emerson
“Please try to go / to hell frequently / because you will / find the light there” — Hannah Emerson
Bathing by Allison Seay
“Inside my mind it is dawn. A wolf appears with a bird / in its mouth.” — Allison Seay
The Three Birds of Milky Way by Donika Kelly
“What wind blew me / off course, took me from heart and home?” — Donika Kelly
This Year I Meant to Be An Elephant by Wendy Xu
“Do you / feel like a straight line? I worry about how / I don't” — Wendy Xu