Tag: Poetry

Four Variations on Drowning – Emily Yang

Mermaid and plastic buoys bobbing in teal slide from one toppled prism-face to another.  So obedient. So tiny. Dolphins and pink inner tubes ride back up.  Bubbles are…

fancy feast – Tristen Godfrey

Content warning: body horror. Serve my lips with a ladle, so they may be slurped down like a stew, heart warming and abundant Gouge out my tongue and…

Scarlet – Hailey Mead

Not an injection but rather a stab By a syringe that suckled your veins Pulling venom into the vial That holds the pollution to streams That I’ve tried…