By Olive Franklin
Loved you since I was little, on the playground break-time
-brawled with you and your mismatched cuffs…
-brawled with you and your mismatched cuffs…
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- By K. IverYou’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi.
Backstage you wear lotion laced with
its chemical imitation… - 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 … - By Ntozake Shangelady in brown
de library waz right down from de trolly tracks
cross from de laundry-mat
thru de big… - 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 airwaves
a time machine, you start to play the air
guitar 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 '…