poetry: rhymes and reminders
full hearts in small fragments
Be Recorder
by Carmen Giménez"When I was a girl, I thought my storm would suck me into its eye and uncoil me from what I was."
by Katie Wismer"There is beauty in our ability to be surprised, to survive pain, to learn from sadness. What a tragedy it would be to feel only joy. How empty we would be to feel only happiness."Poems for the End of the World
by R.H. Sin"There's still magic in a heart that's been broken."whiskey words & a shovel
When the Stars Wrote Back
by Trista Mateer"I am still young and I already forget how to be happy."
by Katie Wismer"This is me. This hopeless, sloppy, pitiful mess is me. And I am so fucking lucky to have her."The Sweetest Kind of Poison
by Kate Baer"Pick up your heavy burdens and leave them at the gate. I will hold the door for you."What Kind of Woman
by Don Mee Choi“My memory lives inside my father’s camera, the site where my memory was born, where my retina and my father’s overlap.”CW · HeavyDMZ Colony
by Sun Yung Shin"I'm living in the future. I have also left myself behind."CW · HeadyUnbearable Splendor
by Su Hwang"한 1. verb [sojourn; something like a river]."CW · HeadyBodega
by Fatimah Asghar"I'm a quiet girl, a rig ready to blow."CW · HeavyIf They Come for Us
Buck Studies
by Douglas Kearney"Who among us has not entertained a silence?."CW · Heavy
by Xandria Phillips"I write to you from the predicament of Blackness."CW · HeavyHull
Monsters I Have Been
by Kenji C. Liu