Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 1 - Poetry

Poetry

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The Spare

Brittney Hatchett

Here stands my brother’s monument.
(The elder of us two)
The gleaming stone that bears his ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Distress

Julia Egbert

I desire
to determine devil from deity
People don't act with dignity
and I can't ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

An Undervalued Educator

Alyssa Goodsell

An essential worker,
that’s what I’ve become
Amidst in COVID
Skyrockets to the sun
No ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

That Hair

Jenna Palacios

He loved her
in her snowy white,
blue eyes, bridal flowers,
and 80s hair. That hair, ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Hallelujah

Giselle Hajir

I never understood those lines about the naked woman on the roof:
roofs are already perfectly ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Drowning

Victoria Kuo

the water slips across my feet
like a blanket.

they held my hand,
protecting me from ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Do You Ever Fall in Love With Strangers?

Rodelynn Yamba

Observation: the freckles that map her body are as limitless as the stars in the night sky ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

yet

Dahlia Breiter

loved to read, yet I always have been ripped from the pages-
choosing oblivious eyes without a ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Get Up

Grace Tanner

Get up
You try so hard to ignore it
The whisper in your head
Because you know if you heed ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Love and loss and disorder and Jehovah too

Kelsey Vita

My father hands me a small box when I arrive for Thanksgiving break. It is from my grandmothe ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Soon It Wanes

Elizabeth Hick

Pain never lasts,
Wounds cannot stay--
Only as fading white lines of memory--
All is ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

What a lovely family

KA YAN YEUNG

Just a winter working night,
Away from the city, away from the light
For sixty years, working ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Great Edge

Jacob Dayton

I walked with you
down darkening stair
and spoke of the Great Edge,
Where heroes lay down ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

War

Savannah Williams

A battle fought, a triumph earned
cost much, for though the tide has turned,
so many here have ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Afternoon's Message

Sarah Soltis

Tarry here a tad
under a sky lavender and blue.
Sit with me, says the day.
I aim not to know ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Post-RBG

Megan Pramojaney

To laugh in the face of death
Means to process the fact that
Someone else is gone
And you ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Division Unites Us

McKenna Chandler

Sometimes people forget
We are on the same side,
We fight each other
Instead of the ... [+]

Poetry

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Dreaming

Brenden Nuttall

The snowflakes of my unbound, unconscious imagination
swirl in oblivious spirals around me ... [+]