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The sun was hot, a glowing burst,We wandered through fields, blissful at first.Your laugh, just like a summer breeze,Underneath the shaking trees.We would give all that we know,Whilst watching fireflies … Continue Reading Please, Enjoy the Summer by Blaire Lee
As days melt into nights, swirls of sensations fill my still body.Feet ache, a gentle reminder of a shift full of laughter and a not so secret helping of ice … Continue Reading The Sensations of Summer by Jayannie C Rodriguez Rosario
I can’t pretend I spend my summers staying far from home.Foreign places and strange countries, I have never roamed.But with warm sand and water shifting underneath my feet,I see these … Continue Reading Summer at home by Lyra Carter
Scarlet and Ihave never seen each other in the summer.She’s tan in the fall,I’m flushed in winter,In spring we’re bothGreen eyes andLong weekend drives.She didn’t knowThat since I cut my … Continue Reading For Scarlet, In Our Season by Bebe Cullen
“It’s you and me in the summer time”Except it’s notIt’s just meSummers used to be filled with laughterBike rides down the long dirt roadPushing my uncle into the poolSummers used … Continue Reading It’s you and me in the summertime by Asha Lescault
We were dropped off by our parentsAt a lake to swim inSoft sand and sharp rocksMixed in the shoresBut a gentle tide all the same We swam far, going into … Continue Reading Pond by Neil Iron
Here, at the edge, there is nothing but space,Here, at the edge, there is nothing but time.The lungs, filled with fresh air, are unfulfilled,For, the mind is tired, lost in … Continue Reading The lungs are filled with the image undone by Ivan Leontyev
the miraculous is so the miraculous is soand we so adultywave it awayas if so socomplacency in copious richesanother Edenic dayho huma blue jay featherI seed them dailyone left this … Continue Reading Three Poems by Bill Routhier
Ella Kindt is a poet and writer from South Carolina. She is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at North Carolina State University. Their work appears in Susurrus Magazine, Carolina … Continue Reading ode to the red-tail hawk by Ella Kindt
Old ManThe day started with a sunrise.The farm was wet with dewand an old man sat down his drawing materialsuntil eveningwhen it was time to look for his knife. You … Continue Reading Two Poems by Nick Hilbourn
They walk the streets as if aliensImmersed and blinded in light, tiredGhosts with only sunglasses onTo make them human and children Huddled and body-slammedAgainst ice-cream shop windowsLike fruit hanging and … Continue Reading Florida Summer by Steven Pelcman
Great Fish in the Sky Taroko the whale shark died 18 yearsafter his relocation to the Georgia Aquarium. Acquired from an illegal fish market,he would need a shroud the size … Continue Reading Two Poems by Qiang Meng
INTERLOCUTERHere, cafébound among people with laptopsor grading papers in this university town I read of the 2%of wild things remainingtotal body weight vs oursand the beings we control my animal … Continue Reading Two Poems by Dave Rosenheim
By Adrianna Gordey i read some of your poems her critiques were shrikes impaled me on a thorn savored my self-esteem with … Continue Reading My Mom is the Worst Workshop Partner
By Jemma Emele I stand here, in front of the mirror of the bathroom in my friends house and I look at myself and through the window the sun shines … Continue Reading Here
By Evan Tassin All the eulogies for the horse. All the slack and rambling. All the more reason to fall. On your knees you could drain it down. I won’t … Continue Reading Dead Language