Jaden Fong __________ Eviction Notice from the Tooth Fairy I fear that I have offended my teeth. They are as loose in my gums, bucking broncos in a gingivae stadium, but please, do not abduct them yet– these teeth do not know what is good for them. They have been…
Read MoreQuinton Okoro __________ jesus lost his milk teeth all at once. he placed them, still warm, pulp still clinging to crown, into his mother’s hand. she bent over him, her palm flattened with expectation. these will make a great gift for your father, mary said. jesus thought of joseph, his…
Read MoreBoudin 2023 All Poetry: June ’23 Managing Editor: Mayank Manchanda “Tonight” by John Brantingham “Sagittarius A*” by Rohan Buettel “Sixteen Rounds of Chemo” by Sara Pirkle “A Typical Day in the Life of Love” by JC Reilly July is the New June: July ’23 Managing Editor: Michael Horner Letter from…
Read MoreTonight John Brantingham __________ It’s 2ambefore I noticethe snow in the streetlight coming downin fat wet flakes.It’s an inch thick on the road, and no one’sdriven this way yet.Sirens are whining and so far from methat they’re soft as birdsong.The blue light of my neighbor’s televisionis playingoff his curtains. I…
Read MoreA Typical Day in the Life of Love JC Reilly __________ Love crawls from a holelike a mouse in the pantry;beware its droppings. Love seeks its shadow behind its back but can’t turn fast enough to see. Love hangs its sheet ona line in the morning sun.It snaps with the…
Read MoreSagittarius A* Rohan Buettel __________ There is a hole in the heart of my galaxy;supermassive and black; no light emitsin any event from below the horizon.It sits in the snowy wastes of the Milky Way,dense with star clusters and interstellar nebulae.The absence keeps growing —no matter how much falls in,…
Read MoreWhere is the Answer? Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg __________ Is it in the speech of the streetlight,so determined to streak its starof orange insistence in the fog? Is it wherever the hummingbird goesto stillness on a perch in the forestacross the street from the old houses? Or is it the houses themselves,…
Read MoreJohn Grey __________ Submitting We could all send blood,a few drops of the red stuffin a tiny corked tube.But how would the editorisolate the worthy from the doggerel?Not a pound of flesh.Editors aren’t Shylocks.But maybe an ounce or two.Like a little fingersevered from the hand.Any editor with a half-way decent…
Read MoreThere’s a Strand Dustin Radke __________ There’s a strand of uncurly hair that weaveditself through your bandana and fell just tothe right of your smile. Not to be too poetic,but it disobeyed the river of your hair and ledme straight to your smile, and now I miss you.I wonder how…
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