by Haley King
The mirror reflects your gray
eyes and freckled bridge. I can smell the beer on your breath
from your last drink. The one that went to your organs Continue reading
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Liver Window
Filed under Poetry, Young Writers Edition
Ivy
by Marcyn Campbell-Ogbunezu
Growing over my dilapidated ruin, once there was only disrepair as far as the eye could see
A lost cause, doors that wouldn’t open, windows that wouldn’t shut
I was a house that was a ghost of a home, within just remnants of what had been
An iron tea kettle rusted over a brilliant ochre Continue reading
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Self-Portrait with Nissan and Failed Romance
by Connor Watkins-Xu
I’m fingertips interlocked on the console
like an oyster. What is our pearl?
I’m an embrace that halts your heart and
I hope to be the vessels of wine-aged love. Continue reading
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Seek and Ye Shall Find
by Shawna Ervin
Lost
1984. Scott Hamilton won the Olympic gold medal for men’s figure skating in Sarajevo that February. He trained at a rink near where I lived with my parents and younger brother. I was nine, in third grade. I hadn’t paid attention to figure skating before, and probably hadn’t paid much attention that year either. My parents were conservative Christians. TV—like the radio, movies, alcohol, smoking, dancing, and anyone outside of our small, fundamental world—was to be feared and avoided at all costs. Continue reading
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Lahaina, August 17, 2023
by Dr. Edward J. Kame`enui
My Hawaiian blood is from Hilo,
the Waipio Valley, and Kamuela
where gobo grows vertical
in soft brown dirt.
Not Lahaina. Continue reading
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