Poetry
Contest Winner
Suddenness Lullaby
This poem won the second 2026 Mini Contest, a warmup round for the 2-Day Contest! / /
Safranal
You stand by the stove, stirring a pot of bubbling rice— sticky, gelatinous—your arthritic fingers stained gold by pinched saffron. Your hair is the same rusty bob, your brown eyes ringed with...
Moving Ruins
after Zoë Keating i am revisiting a common kestrel eating a bat on the ledge of someone’s bedroom window. it’s 2010 again and the chat logs are beaming, teeming with conversion of...
Under the Sun
Rain is the merging of cool air with warm under general conditions of humidity. Try to remember it has nothing to do with love or grief. This is the consolation of philosophy:...
Baseball Game, with Octopus
I want the dusty afternoon sun to sneak up on top of me through the living room shutters while I loll on my couch listening to Buck Martinez lament the modern catcher’s...
Creator’s Favourites
i wake up beside you and check my phone to see if any empire has fallen overnight. dreams polymictically shared between our thoughts in a non-marital bed. the dying embers of the...
Three Apparitions
ONE Wailing in a basin in a clearing in the bush, she pulled me from the rusty water and pressed my frigid body to her chest. When I stopped crying, three grackles...
The Beauty of Furs
At lunch with the girls, the younger ones are talking about furs, & what looks good with certain hair colours. Red fox looks no good with my hair, says one. White fox...