Poetry
Blood Quantum
when you look at me do you see my blood quantum? / the quantities of who i am poured down / from generation to generation / / do you see the...
I let my younger brother use my headphones, and he used them for evil.
I let my younger brother use my headphones, and he used them for evil. He listened to the absolute worst music on the planet, and I am so ashamed. He stole me...
Or, Perhaps You Have
Morning, early September. Still dark, / a proper chill reminding me how / short our summers really are, how / much good can come from a thermos / of coffee. We’re sitting...
Lion and Tiger
while you were entering the wu tang we wore our jeans low, taught our bodies to pop and lock a love song that flows like water, hits beats like bamboo sticks on...
Kaiteur
It exists on a frayed embroidered map, where I pulled at gold threads, searching for the first stitch. We trail over roots and rocks next to the unbarred water, until we reach...
metro
and then she emerges / on the corner of peel & maisonneuve, her / city legs tired and out of kilter. / she has been lost in the forest: / picking blackberries...
Delilah, tonight
It takes so much out of you, / not the living, but the space between. / When it’s so cold clouds can’t form, / the sun sees everything. / His hair...
Contest Winner
startled shut
you draw winter near / with gnathic aptitude / the lockjaw of late autumn / startled shut, rivers grow covers / smothered, lifeblood slows in the veins / / beavers in...
Contest Winner
Vermiculture
When I think about dying, I think about worms, / how their bodies churn dirt from decay. Comforting, / perhaps, the resurrection of human use. / Kim’s roommate worm-composts, sells bins /...