Amanda Adrienne Smith
“10. 10. Upon arrival at the dentist office // a woman, later identified as ‘Amanda’”
arushi (aera) rege
“but not in that cutesy english way, more / as in your face reminds me of a sunned out / lebron james OR teletubbies (twink style) sun”
Billie Sainwood
“The dream of my body gathered / slow and deliberate as lichen / smoothing and stippling the oak of my skin”
Calla C Smith
“Take a seat at the bar, have something sweet, something bitter, or something that burns as it goes down.”
Devon Webb
“I can’t keep telling my secrets on main / but I’m intoxicated! / LOOK AT ME / THE MOST TRANSPARENT THING”
Daniel Lukes
“The location is a bus station, a hospital entrance, or some other public area where people come and go, and where two guys, two random white guys, can pass relatively unnoticed.”
Justin Carter
“Retweet if you’re ready for Game 7. Retweet if you think about the e.e. cummings phrase puddle-wonderful more often than you should.”
Nhat Huy Nguyen
“These boys are ditchin' prom, leavin' their girls behind. / These boys got a plan, they're ditchin' that plan too.”
Kyla Guimaraes
“Before the forgetting began, you were afraid. / It was summer and we still thought we could / become young again.”
Matthew Bullen
“The best way to make a landscape / interesting is to slap a bear in there.”
Jane Bloomfield
“These days I go to bed to stay awake half the night but I don’t feel alone”
Parker Logan
“I like Drive Away Dolls, but the rest of my friends are split / between Bottoms and Love Lies Bleeding, the age old / debate on whether murderous juicers beat punch drunk femmes”