It’s the end of May

- Andrey Egorov

If I’m transformed by language, I am often

crouched in footnote or blazing in title.

Where in the body do I begin

- Layli Long Soldier

Possible futures pour like loud blues from too-small headphones.

I know mine is not murdered.

Let me say it again: I know my future is not murdered.

- Leigh Sugar

I try but can’t remember

that one last moment

of contented silence,

that perfect frame of

simple, sweet stillness.

- Rick Anderson

am I truly feeling the feeling of suffering

- Cindy Juyoung Ok

When you leave you rarely

think about those left, so

perhaps it is like that for

those who leave you

- Cindy Juyoung Ok

I don’t know much about the future      but I’m offended

To be in it more often than I am not

- Julian Randall

Revelation is not disclosure. 

- Carl Phillips

something inside

doesn’t get too old

for love.

so, when i look

at you

i still have to watch

the catch in my breath.

something inside

still inside of me,

hasn’t gotten too

old, to love a

certain smell or smile,

or grab a certain look or laugh

for my heart’s sake.

something inside my

heart

gets glad

when i hear your voice

- carolyn marie rodgers

I sense something is ending but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s the future.

- Victoria Chang

After I lost everything

lights remain.

- Emi Miyaoka

Here is now only

an abstract line, an

impure movement which is a difficult

fraught speech, erratic

search for meaning delinked in vivo

no more valid than the discourse of a scribbling

hand once illustrated

- Ida Börjel

Life is beautiful and painful

like a feather pulled

from a wing.

- Dunya Mikhail