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My Greatest Comfort Song Reminds Me of Death
by Mitchell Barbee | Oct 23, 2021 | Placeless
The song was my fix. But fixes only last so long.
Little Answered Prayers
by Kayleigh (Fongers) Van Wyk | Oct 22, 2021 | Placeless
I’ve always yearned for clarity.
Word Power
by Emily Joy Stroble | Oct 21, 2021 | Croatia
“Does the basement bedroom still hold the amber scent of pipe smoke?”
Snapshots of a Dieffenbachia
by Chad Westra | Oct 20, 2021 | Ann Arbor, Washington
His twig-thin waist cannot support his bulging, leafy muscles.
My Vegetarian Philosophy
by Lillie Spackman | Oct 19, 2021 | Placeless
I can’t remember the last time I bought meat at the grocery store.
Library for the Future
by Ben DeVries | Oct 18, 2021 | Norway
It is growing, the poem, quick as trees.
New Identities in a Sunoco
by Laura Sheppard Song | Oct 17, 2021 | Placeless
“Um, did my…husband…put these here?”
On Earth as It Is & Was
by Katie Van Zanen | Oct 16, 2021 | Ann Arbor
We begin the same way.
Why I Wear Lipstick
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Oct 15, 2021 | Placeless
I identify my mugs by a familiar stain around their edges.
Heaven’s Eye
by Finnely King-Scoular | Oct 14, 2021 | Placeless
It’s safe to say they’re well aware of the power of the stars.
Ghost of Days Unlived
by Olivia Harre | Oct 13, 2021 | Chicago, Michigan, Tennessee
I would have inhaled a rosemary salt bagel with my iced vanilla latte this morning.
“Baseball” Redux
by Klaas Walhout | Oct 12, 2021 | Placeless
The N.F.L. season was just beginning, and Caesars was on the offense.
Fifteen Seconds of Peace
by Lauren Cole | Oct 11, 2021 | France, Honduras, Michigan
There, church bells ringing as the sun sets over Grenoble.
Things Would Have Been Different
by Philip Rienstra | Oct 10, 2021 | Placeless
He would’ve kept carving the crosses, coasters.
Tollers
by Gwyneth Findlay | Oct 9, 2021 | Placeless
Summer came t’ England,
so he danced among hemlock in a wood
Meeting Princeton’s Ghosts
by Josh Parks | Oct 8, 2021 | New Jersey
Albert Einstein strolls through campus regularly, I imagine, on his way back home from running whatever errands ghosts run downtown.
Paper Football Truce
by Susannah Boersma | Oct 7, 2021 | Placeless
I am convinced that he chooses the opposite side just to drive me nuts.
Unrecommendation: Music Festivals
by Alex Johnson | Oct 5, 2021 | Chicago
Distant bass jars you from Adrianne Lenker’s sweet crooning.
Because Watching Favorite Videos with Someone is an Underrated Affectionate Act
by Comfort Sampong | Oct 4, 2021 | England
Jane kept my dreams company as I faced unknowns.
Compassion, Dignity, and Adult Diapers
by Ansley Kelly | Oct 3, 2021 | Ohio
A nurse stood at my head, encouraging me to take slow breaths.
A Floor Might Just Be a Big Shelf
by Christina Ribbens | Oct 2, 2021 | Placeless
I’ve been less decisive about the shelves, however.
An Ode to Half-Baked Harvest
by Juliana Knot | Oct 1, 2021 | Placeless
I’m about to introduce you to my best friend.
Death on the Prairie
by Mattie Hughey | Sep 30, 2021 | Colorado
We are ranchers, I told myself. We are tough in the face of life’s harshness.
Quarter Deposit
by Sam Tuit | Sep 29, 2021 | Placeless
The Aldi Quarter is always in motion.
Voicemails
by Jon Gorter | Sep 28, 2021 | Placeless
“I guess you might still be sleeping and that’s OK, we can talk soon.”
On the Road Again
by Anna Jeffries | Sep 27, 2021 | Placeless
I always find it such a nasty shock when friends of my heart become friends of the road and quickly recede in my rearview mirror.
Walden & Wind Turbines
by Annaka Koster | Sep 26, 2021 | Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan
The whole thing was a real exercise in accelerated bildungsroman.
Rattlesnake in the Hallway
by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Sep 25, 2021 | Texas
I can’t very well store it in my office as usual—five weeks into the semester, I have yet to receive a key.
Simplicity and Music Theory: An Interview with Indie Artist Dashiel
by Joshua Polanski | Sep 24, 2021 | Ohio
“I find solace in letting things go, letting things be silly and not perfect. “
My Life Stages (Seen Through Transportation)
by Mitchell Barbee | Sep 23, 2021 | Washington, D.C.
I’m still afraid I’m boarding the wrong train.
