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Apple Fritters and Ginseng Tea
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Apple Fritters and Ginseng Tea

Maya Cheav ✳︎ Nov 21, 2024

Love, according to the movies your mother watched in high school, is serenading your girlfriend with a marching band on the soccer field, confessing your feelings with a boombox over your head, slow dancing in an empty street.

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The Mosquito
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The Mosquito

Luna Yin ✳︎ May 4, 2024

you’re here in every silence / the restless buzz of summer quiet / you sing no song but the thrum in the brown grass

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Half Off
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Half Off

Dominic Anaya Gulaya ✳︎ May 4, 2024

For a lover under cloths:


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Eternal Grace
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Eternal Grace

Ninh Dang ✳︎ Mar 7, 2024

May we join hands around the dinner table

to pray for our kids who are running across the kitchen

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to trump [verb]
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to trump [verb]

Dominic Anaya Gulaya ✳︎ Mar 6, 2024

rust erodes from the waves roiling against it,

kids who throw themselves into the surf chirping like happy crows

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Stained Pearl & Opal
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Stained Pearl & Opal

Dominic Anaya Gulaya ✳︎ Dec 28, 2023

A sleeve of an otherwise pearl dress shirt;

Dyed at the hands of a laundry cycle

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白云苍狗
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白云苍狗

Stephanie Hu ✳︎ Dec 26, 2023

My tongue is on the verge of falling off. Blackened and blue, soaked in some sort of ice bath, my tongue is drowning in a pathetic stutter

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/doppelgänger/
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/doppelgänger/

Ninh Khang Dang ✳︎ Nov 30, 2023

we were kissing on the floor

somewhere screaming, and i

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the brave women who served
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the brave women who served

Stephanie Hu ✳︎ Nov 29, 2023

today i am Lily-Rose Depp. not Lily-Rose Depp like my father is Johnny Depp nepo baby Lily-Rose Depp or bonjour i wear only chanel no5 l'eau and have a sexy french accent Lily-Rose Depp.

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the lost rattle
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the lost rattle

Dominic Anaya Gulaya ✳︎ Nov 27, 2023

he is so angry, so mean, lashing out like a rattlesnake with a rattle cut off,

stretched across a desert suburb’s road, sunbaked and alone,

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when it became poetic
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when it became poetic

Luna Yin ✳︎ Nov 25, 2023

in the static of empty air outside airplane windows, the swaddled silence of shadows beneath thin blankets, i wrap the little lost girl

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/the fall/
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/the fall/

Ninh Khang Dang ✳︎ Nov 17, 2023

sweet

as the leaves bleed

autumn lies down on me

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in Red
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in Red

Stephanie Hu ✳︎ Nov 7, 2023

It’s 10:32 PM on a Wednesday night. We are already in bed — dishes washed, teeth brushed, matching pink and blue sleep dresses clinging to our skin.

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ode to a carcass in his throat
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ode to a carcass in his throat

Dominic Anaya Gulaya ✳︎ Nov 3, 2023

the gray brush invites in: a tongue with still fresh mouse bits

i can smell Coyote howling in the distance,

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saltwater daughter
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saltwater daughter

Luna Yin ✳︎ Oct 30, 2023

it is she who ached to

run with rivers but

cried in currents

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