Stitches | Marie-Andree Auclair

"Mother teaches me life skills / how to baste, embroider / hem and mend so I’ll understand / about silk and serge / satin, linings, padding / and about the necessity of scissors..."

Selected Poems | jms xuange

"I wouldn’t mind / being dizzy more often, falling down and into things, / spilling other people’s drinks in fancy restaurants. / I’d like the attention—being asked to leave..."

Threshold | Wen Jing

"Threshold is a wall. When you look at those orange bricks, you see smears of blood. It’s from the last woman who tried to go through the wall..."

Fealty and Other Poems | Judy Thorn

"If you should ever miss me, take the boat. / If the boat is stalling, jump and fly. / May strong winds float you, levant kids. / I sing for quarters now, into my hat. / Nothing bad I’ve ever done has been without / melody..."

Selected Poems | CS Crowe

"we have so many words / for the act of sifting one thing / from another / sift, sieve, sort, strain / how many of these words / are gentle and soft / in our mouths / thresh, sever, sunder, winnow..."

How the Fire Must Have Started | Kathleen Hellen

"black smoke charring faded floral wallpaper. / they were old, we didn’t know them. call it failure of occupation. the grass untamed. trackless. / the vines that willed a wall. call it failure of attention..."