Two Poems by Laura McCarty
The Home We Will Remember
I am born in the black hills of eastern Kentucky
to a young woman...
Two Poems by Mecca Verdell
My little sister is beautiful.She has our father’s eyes, brown.Her mother’s skin—light, blinding.
Something in her skin draws meand I look like a confused scribble,a Black mask, in...
Three Poems by Chloe Yelena Miller
Mid-Thirties
Toddler, pigtails loosening,hides behind her mother’s legs,two tiny hands around one adult knee.Mother leans down,whispers in her daughter’s ear.Child smiles,tilts her head to one side,knee-grip loosens.
I, too,...
Two Poems by Carol Poster
Sheltering in Place
The desert wind outside my window howls.Tree branches, desiccated by the rainless winter,toss and rustle with eerily sibilant sounds.The wind itself moans as it angles...
Five Prose Poems by Laura Costas
Ariadne Awakens
She smoothed the creases in the bright blue sky, and when he arrived, there was barely time to clear the space between them of ash, coffee...