By K. Iver
You’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi. Backstage you wear lotion laced with its chemical imitation...
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- By Edward HirschTwelve years old and lovesick, bumbling and terrified for the first time in my life, but strangely hopeful...
- By Kara van de GraafThe water was so still I believed it would keep us right-side up forever there in that pool on a night...
- By Gabrielle BatesI am warned against marrying early love. I am also told it works out, sometimes, for saplings can be...
- By David WagonerUnder the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper By the second string of teachers and wallflowers In the...
- By Michaella Batteni. i am sitting in sunday school in a handsewn pink dress and white lace tights i am putting my hand...
- By Wyatt TownleyHere you are forty years later in a white coat examining my ears. All I can think is how your tongue...
- By Brian Tearei. “I am the sign of the Letter, / . . .” No seed. Flat beneath my hand: bone. Pelvis a field, but no...
- By Ntozake Shangelady in brown de library waz right down from de trolly tracks cross from de laundry-mat thru de big shinin floors...
- By Tim SeiblesI remember that first time: the empty auditorium, her voice, the dark all around us, her mouth reaching...
- By Tim SeiblesIt seems insane now, but she’d be standing soaked in schoolday morning light, her loose-leaf notebook...
- By Dorianne LauxAt the high school football game, the boys stroke their new muscles, the girls sweeten their lips with...
- By Sarah WhiteI will not speak ill of Jack Flick. I will rarely look at the scar he made on my cheek one summer at...
- By Yehuda AmichaiMy father built a great worry around me like a dock Once I left it before I was finished And he remained...
- By A. E. HousmanWhen I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart...
- By Ciaran BerryBecause this song’s made of the airwavesa time machine, you start to play the airguitar of memory, making...
- By Nate Marshallon her profile i see she has 2 kids, now 1 she had in high school, now none at all. she unaborts 1. ...
- By William TrowbridgeIt chafed like some new skin we’d grown, or feathers, the cummerbund and starched collar pinching us...
- By Gabrielle CalvocoressiLike the horn you played in Catholic school the city will open its mouth and cry out. Don't worry 'bout nothing...
- By Dorianne LauxBefore the days of self service, when you never had to pump your own gas, I was the one who did it for...