Isabel Ferreira 4/14/22 Isabel Ferreira 4/14/22

out the window

“aching in the same hard-backed chair / i learned to speak amongst the pains / wrote myself into the lucky one”

Artie Leon 4/13/22 Artie Leon 4/13/22

Vaquero

“Do you see this picture of this vaquero? / He’s my dad / A John Wayne type, the real true grit”

A. Earley 4/12/22 A. Earley 4/12/22

“The laughs, the messes, the missing plate, once resting, / She was too afraid to admit she broke”

Artie Leon 4/10/22 Artie Leon 4/10/22

“My daughters are the gentle drizzle of rain / A blast of an erupting volcano / They are riches of the ground, the gold rush”

Veronica Martinez 4/10/22 Veronica Martinez 4/10/22

“The July heat made you sick yesterday, / your paper back sliding off the hardwood.”

Kris Kennon 4/10/22 Kris Kennon 4/10/22

“collapse into tightest earth / burrow in and fall apart”

A. Earley 4/10/22 A. Earley 4/10/22

“the cracks bleed gold and her soul unfolds / into a beautiful painful collection of pieces eroded”