Selected Poems | Alex Behr

"The body is the skin with the new spit across it... The pacifier: to shove something in a (child’s) mouth / and hope nothing will come out..."

Don’t Worry, Be Happy | Melanie Friedman

"too many notifications but waking up to an empty phone is vacuums / sucking butterflies I am the same thread flushed and forgotten by the space / I used to occupy..."

Selected Poems | Daneen Bergland

"Let this make us safe / to kiss and wake in the bright light / of science. Let us place too much / stock in our own resilience. / Let us experiment. Let us embrace / and make pets of our differences..."

Itchy | Turandot Shayegan

"let me know if you plan on borrowing my skin it itches sometimes when you pull it off it itches / and i can’t itch it when i’m so naked sitting here without my skin i’m so naked it itches it itches..."

Sounds Like | Jennifer Lang

"I read one syllable at a time first-grader fashion: ga-go-a-im, which makes me think of the game charades—sounds like garinim, Hebrew for sunflower seeds, a common Israeli snack..."

Selected Poems | Patrick S. Rogers

"Suppose a use or even a slipping through, and then think straight toward a shadow. The double of the thing is always coming. Silver, but no shadow..."