Fast-Forward: Fat Fuck & Full of Grace by Omotara James
"You will remain unlovable / to those who cannot love you." — Omotara James
Evening by Kuhu Joshi
“On the bridge, people are carried / in the body of a train, nodding like peonies.” — Kuhu Joshi
In the gloaming, in the roiling night by Ruth Awad
“Let me look at your face and see a heaven worth having” — Ruth Awad
Everyone Has Lint and Other Tiny Things That Stick to Them by Leia K. Bradley
“crying myself awake / to water my roots, deflowered” — Leia K. Bradley
On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel by Justin Lacour
“plot get harder the further out you go” — Justin Lacour
Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke
“Whoever has no house now will establish none,” — Rainer Maria Rilke
It’s November Again by Talin Tahajian
“It’s November / again & most of us are still alive. This makes me so glad except / for the fact that it has to be said.” — Talin Tahajian
Notes On Staying by Hieu Minh Nguyen
"If joy is what tethers us to this life then most days, my mother & I float above the pavement, tied together by the fraying threads of her nightgown." — Hieu Minh Nguyen
Long Poem of Loneliness by Garous Abdolmalekian
“He stands up / to go sit by the window / realizes he has been sitting / by the window for hours.” — Garous Abdolmalekian
The crow cawing at night by Li Po
“Through her gauze window she could not help but hear / The bird, which sounded like someone talking. / She stopped in her shuttle, thinking of her absent lover;” — Li Po