perfect victim - anureet watta
Pardon me,
I hope to kill you, so ferociously,
you return as a ghost,
And we always touch on the cusp of unfinished business.
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- Jul 21, 2021
speed dial & other poems by shreya sivaramakrishnan
"what if we got caught? what if we died?"
- Jun 3, 2021
october moon & other poems by eleanor colligan
"and everytime i open my mouth,
it only seems to send postcards devoid of destination."
- Jun 1, 2021
a date with death and other poems - nabeel siddiqui
"then one night did not go as he planned, when he stumbled upon an empty land."
- Mar 31, 2021
process - dominic loise
"there is no guest list written out in advance for a funeral."
- Mar 25, 2021
i don't want to be a survivalist - toni h
"if i'm not the chaos, i don't want it. not even with you."
- Mar 19, 2021
why - zoe elerby
"it is a thing of fiction to think that there won’t be anyone after you."
- Mar 3, 2021
grave - palmer smith
"i played with matches in the house. i stole the money from the safe."
- Mar 1, 2021
sharon - shivi dixit
"i found a little white moth sitting on my window sill. it was slow as a sloth and sat seriously still."
- Feb 22, 2021
there are two kinds of emptiness - poems by lydia strohfeldt
"one day we will be nothing more
than loose change, clinking at the back of someone’s memory."
- Feb 6, 2021
drive, darling - rhea kotrashetti
"i ought to remind myself to stop searching for sunshine and morning breeze in places where our love went to die."
- Dec 30, 2020
toxicology - poems by maia vásconez-taylor
"place me back in the ground, cover me in soil. i want to be planted."
- Dec 23, 2020
mirror, mirror - kennedi munson
"my milk cloth dangling alongside the pantry door, longing for you to take me and hold on."
- Dec 19, 2020
pervasiveness of loss - prathiksha
"the years
have cataracted my eyes and images have hardened. nothing ever flows to rearrange itself into metaphors."
- Dec 9, 2020
a collection of poems - shreya sivaramakrishnan
"lived a lie, with grace."
- Dec 1, 2020
death of an entomologist - prathiksha
"the morning that i had
found the summer lilac,
someone had found her
dead in her sleep."
- Nov 20, 2020
at his door - mohaddesah riyaz ladiwala
"and I know, deep in my heart, he’s standing near - hands folded, head low, alert at his door."
- Nov 9, 2020
the falling of his body - palmer smith
"trees can live hundreds of years, even after a branch has fallen."
- Nov 4, 2020
patroclus's lament - cindy tran
"you cannot help but leave behind a mark a scar a kiss goodbye."
- Oct 25, 2020
how to drown a dog at christmas - matthew whisker
“we could have waited till it died but we fed it and we watered it, and we watched it grow.”
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