Arts & Literary Magazine
Listen to Marianne Peel read “Quarantine Day 15.”
When my mind won’t settle in for the night
we play this game:
Tell me three good things,
I implore my lover.
I took a good shower, he tells me.
And then silence.
I didn’t have a meltdown today, I tell him.… Read more ““Quarantine Day 15” by Marianne Peel”
Listen to M.A. Hoak read “her crown in glory.”
her crown in glory
they had my grandmother’s funeral
on a steamy sunday in august
(she’d died in may
but, given the virus,
they’d all been forced to wait)
i do not know if they wore masks
or if they stood six feet apart
i cannot tell you which hymns were sung—
which flowers they laid on her grave
(i hope they were purple; her favorite color)
what else is there to say?… Read more ““her crown in glory” by M.A. Hoak”
Listen to Jesse Rice-Evans read her poems, “Patron Saint of Lost Causes” and “[Interlude with Essay abt Pain]”
Patron Saint of Lost Causes
after Grey’s Anatomy S01E08
I start a new strain of antibiotics, spend every night you’re out of town in bed fluffed with heating pads, my family thinking I’m certifiable, correlating seizures with visions, chicken with forgiveness.… Read more “Poetry by Jesse Rice-Evans”
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