your blink-blink-blink Lindsey Warren __________ __________ Lindsey Warren is a Delaware native. She received her MFA from Cornell University, and her three collections (Unfinished Child, Archangel & the Overlooked, and Sentence, Forest) were published by Spuyten Duyvil. She has had several poem collages published in various journals, including Fugue, Miracle…

Written Down Sam Rasnake __________ “My happiness is a documented fact in themind of God.”– Jericho Brown Everything slips fromme as though I were infreefall – I’m reaching upbut there’s nothing there to hold – and then I thinkmaybe I’m being held andit’s the world that’s fallingaway from me –…

But I am Just a Poet Rebecca Dietrich __________ If I were an artist,I’d capture you in a regal pose,adorned in Tyrian purple,edged in gold.A crown of rubies upon your brow,to echo the shade of my lips,when they leave their mark upon your skin.Or perhaps,like a reincarnate of Picasso,your testicles…

Dismissed Bart Edelman __________ You say you’re sorry;It won’t happen again.Attempt a feeble apology,Showing a bit of remorse.Yet I’m not asking for anything,Foolishly deceiving me again.That ticket’s been punchedFar too many timesTo think admission is possible.No, what I have in mindDoesn’t really concern you.Rest assured, you’re dismissed.Expelled from a schoolI…

Let It Rain, London Workers, & Eyes Edward Lees __________ Let It Rain I was the only person in my confirmation classnot to go through with it.I had to talk to the pastor,tell him how I wasn’t sure I believedthe words I was supposed to say.I think it was mostly…