We pulled off the highway / because I didn’t know how to turn / the windshield wipers on in my grandpa’s truck[…]
TagPoetry
“An Acknowledgement” By Jake Clark
What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you / But what you won’t know always will […]
“A/S/L?” By Esther Chen
tonight i posted in the subreddit community r/ama and called it ‘im stoned and i have a broken heart AMA’ […]
“Untitled” by Koby Braidek
My lizard brain knows it’s beer he’s sipping. Instinct. But soon can and person become indistinguishable—metal and beard, the leather face beneath, his stony eyes […]
“elsewhere” by Amanda Wan
summer has a way of making me feel small and hard. everything that hurts does so more slowly. somehow i become my migraine […]
“When Fishing With A Can Of Worms” by Shivangi Sikri
Go fishing. Open your can of worms. Stick a hook in the “I promise” note, dated 7th September ‘16. Cast the line. Go deep. Reel it in. Remember the first note she asked you to sign. Remember how […]
“things that fall” by Christina Daudlin
(january) snowflakes you for her and me for you (february) confetti made of tiny hearts (march) cherry blossom petals […]
“Begat” by Brenna Goodwin-McCabe
Boiler maker blood popper beat scraper button pusher Badland butchers sourcing downcast trudgers — publicize powerhouses […]
“Upon Arriving in Takoradi” Poem by Joy Gyamfi
I remember nineteen ninety-six, when I had chubby fingers and chubby toes,
and a heart so whole I had no idea my family was breaking.
I remember the suffocation of humidity; sharp claws around my neck, fucking me slowly.
I tasted the salt in my sweat as it dripped […]
“Gin Hip” Poem by Mariah Lynne Dear
This street
makes her cry.
“On my seventh birthday
I was holding an ice cream cone,
and I dropped it.” […]
“Rookie” Poem by Joy Gyamfi
I’ve never been in love, yet you seem so familiar
I’m scared I’ve said too much, I’ve never opened up
I know it’s weird, cause we just met, but there’s something about you
I’d like to hold your hand and kiss your cheek beneath a summer moon
“Zayn Malik Leaves One Direction For Me” Poem by Tess LeBlanc
Zayn Malik tells Harry, “Look, she’s the only thing
that got me through the touring years, and now
I have to be with her.” Zayn Malik calls me a tempting
animal. Zayn Malik knows he had the best voice […]
“Mr. Pither’s House” Poem by Jennifer Irvine
Wizened red cedar siding fades
into neighbourhood at the end of my laneway
as subtle as a home after a house-wrecking party.
I walk through decades of tiny moments with
my eye only on his basement window […]