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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by Elina Kumra
Rapid tweets across the valleys of the Kashmir,
where murmurs grow to roars, quelled by fog —
the hourglass frozen for the lost child on the lonely path.
Longing to chronicle the rape red-hot incident, the cast-off
gas canisters around their soles, chucked
onto the innocent paths of Dalits. (Go home? I am home. You
go the fuck home.) Continue reading
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by Haley King
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by Mikayla Maeshiro
i am the host to a funeral in my brain
an open casket with no body
a eulogy gratingly carved in sepia
grave-robbed flowers pay their respects
the living are not worthy of mourners. Continue reading
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by Sarah Brockhaus
When I talk about want I mean a seagull
taking flight against a dark night sky in Italy. I am
on my own, craving vicinity more than love, someone Continue reading
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