This morning the needle in my thigh felt a little more painful than normal An overwhelming weight on the tops of my shoulders Hurting and pointed and important Spreading throughout my body, the fact...

A way to define love I woke up yesterday, the past still                      heavy   on my tongue I thought of the way        my dad   tried to brush my hair pulling...

My professor stated, “Latinx history is more than just male heroes”   ¿Adónde están las mujeres valientes? Those who stand tall against machismo Ésas sí son heroínas Our ancestors,...

Good morning, asphalt acolyte. I would wake before the lecture halls yawned open, before the library doors exhaled their first wave of half-slept scholars, my claws etching hymns into the dew-slick grass....

You will lose them, and they won’t say goodbye. Some slip like fossil-kissed gravel, unchained by the creek, some snag in the throat—a swallowed firefly.   You’ll love a girl whose voice...

I Caught the Moon     Let me remind you… you were raised tumbling through dirt / fighting / chasing siblings with pine / sticks swung around like swords / you were named under...

The Supernova of Old Friends   They stake claim to “zenith,” find home at the peak of its arc, and bask in its brilliance—forgetful there is only down from here   At...

Little girls usually play with dolls, but I had my nose in books before I understood what was on the page. By the third grade, I was reading biographies of prominent figures from Old Hollywood, like Betty...

Table twelve is paid and leaving, they tried to wave, or so it seemed. Too tied up with table seven; three toddlers needing booster seats.   Simple man with a simple task, but the...

After Brynn Saito’s “Love Poem From Another Dimension”   If instead of cutting silence with   accented I lahve you’s,  you  held  your  tongue   each time; if instead of attending...

A step-by-step guide by the author and editor of Sapphics Inc.,  Katie Quigley. 1. Stop believing the other woman will make the first move when you both want the other one to–it won't happen! "I'm...

Symbol Key: +: snap on syllable /: rest on syllable — I must have been a sculptor in a past life. I can’t spend a moving day without studying The faces of people I walk past, And I mean...