Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
“How dense it is, / how it carries inside it the memory of collapse. / How difficult it is to move then. / How impossible to believe that anything / could lift that weight.” — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Inertia by Oladosu Michael Emerald
“He called it rest. I call it a kind of surrender, a way to let the body stay while the soul drifts. ” — Oladosu Michael Emerald
Notes on Beachgrass by Yong-Yu Huang
“Have you ever seen heaven? I asked. / From where, with whom?” — Yong-Yu Huang