Love Poems

In Your Apartment for the First Time in Months by James Croal Jackson In your red dress you ask what you want me to say to you but Lagunitas sips the words I wanted in June out of me leaving only amber hops & honey to ooze from my mouth. You spit a tumbleweed toward the wall & it sticks. You say all I wanted was to know you. Here I sink into the quicksand of … [Read more...] about In Your Apartment for the First Time in Months by James Croal Jackson

The Vulnerability Accident by Tara Rigg I poured out my heart and it spilled onto the floor. We stood looking at it for a while. Eventually, I wiped it up with paper towels as she watched. Every visit after that We both remembered the mess I’d made on the floor. But she never mentioned it. She didn’t want to be rude. ### Tara Rigg writes … [Read more...] about The Vulnerability Accident by Tara Rigg

Neuroscience by Harnidh Kaur I used to smoke, and a lot, at that, and I quit it, cold turkey one day- it wasn’t easy, my nose still traces the traces of nicotine that stain the air like they once stained my teeth, but I’m okay now, I suppose, I have a list of vices that are presumably under my control, and I count love amongst that them, or I would, if it actually … [Read more...] about Neuroscience by Harnidh Kaur

Blinking is Ill-Advised by Sarah A. O’Brien That joke was not funny, and I am willing to bet Your next one isn’t either. I am terribly sure you do not like me, But I was banking on that to begin with. There are too many places to be right now And deciding is like a plane deciding to swim. Stranded in a labyrinth of self-creation, Turned on only because I forgot … [Read more...] about Blinking is Ill-Advised by Sarah A. O’Brien