- May 9, 2022
The first night in the city I saw the sticker of a skeleton and roses on the back window of a rust orange Nova, I think, and smelled the scent of jasmine wafting through the open windows of a
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“If I had to describe it, it’s like a connection to a different voltage somewhere, where things happen around me that I’m not even aware of anymore because it’s such a focused, internal experience. External, too, because I’m very fussy about the environments I write in. Some people can write anywhere—I can’t. I need to have a certain solitude and quiet.”
Interview conducted by Nehway Sahn
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- April 22, 2022
This is how it is now in these times. What grows around me matters big time. The sunflowers and the nasturtium seed planted in giant plastic containers. The tiny sprouts in the morning grown taller, little leaves and stems
- April 22, 2022
I feel for the antediluvian forests Being systemically cut for American lumber for building Spreading more civilization, European biomass for burning As factory-made fuel, new Means to spoil the air— Critters of the trees, of wings and paws, Forced
“I’ve been placed on her wall since she was 15. I don’t recognize her anymore, the mid-size teen that once used to put on eyeliner and mascara every day is now an adult who puts on a whole face in the morning. You know I don’t get it, why would she hide behind a façade of make-up? “
Fiction by Erica Escobar
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- May 13, 2022
I. Tess marks time with her daughter’s body: bones grow in cadence to the hourglass slip of sand grains after n overcast beach day Tess rinses soap suds and Sarasota sugar sand from her daughter’s skin Elah: the valley
- May 13, 2022
Would she know this place without apple orchards, bare vines crucifixed, with wires pulsing underground? Would her naked feet sear on the macadam even in late October light when he came for her daughter, who, some said, went all
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