From the Archives: The Dog

By GABRIELLE BATES

How easily / I could imagine a version of our lives / in which he kept all his suffering secret from me. / I saw the beer on the counter.


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7 May 2025

POETRY

Image shows a close up of several differently colored river pebbles scattered across a white linen cloth. Sunlight shines from one corner, illuminating the stones.

Ode

By FUNTO OMOJOLA

I wanted to stay forever in / that rocking place.

16 Apr 2025

POETRY

Image shows a window in the center of a building. The light from the window is warm as orange light shines through pinkish curtains. Plants can be seen on the inside windowsill. The surrounding light in the image is dim and bluish gray. Leafless trees stand around the window, coated in snow. The building is made of light colored bricks. The top of a chain-link fence can be seen in the foreground.

Those Winter Evenings

By ANNI LIU

I’d come home from campus in the blue-black / dim of dinnertime, the air pummeling me awake from the daze

2 Apr 2025

POETRY

Image shows a flock of several greyish black birds flying away towards the upper left corner. Many of them have their wings spread wide. The background is a solid greyish white sky.

So, After A While,

By TIM SEIBLES

which made the poem / feel pretty far away, / though it was standing / in the middle of everything,

5 Mar 2025

POETRY

Image shows a close up of long, bristled, and tall purple-pink flowers clustered together, with bright sunlight illuminating them. The background is blurred but emerald green grass and coniferous trees can be seen. In the rop right corner, the bright blue sky is visible.

Drama

By STEPHANIE CAWLEY

This could be my play where I am watering my sibling’s tomato plants in the morning and the play is / me thinking about you watching me water the tomato plants, which you aren’t doing.