Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 12 - Poetry

Poetry

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For a Black Girl

Aria Austin

"You’re pretty for a black girl".
A qualification
for your racial equivocation,
as if my ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Deadly Sin

Taylor Bitton

My eyes are brown and
my belly is swollen.
My mother always told me
"Everything in ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

O Wretched Man

Kyle Remund

Here I am, o wretched man
Sins broad and virtue fleeting
I kneel down and I cry for help ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Massacre Storm

Jeannette Coleman

The usually sunny day was interrupted by eager clouds bombarding the scene
The immaculate streets ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Two Ways to Attempt the Murder

Aster Yan Cheng

One is to wish that she hadn’t been in bed,
(But she was, which is the other way)
Then she ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Address

Lucy Draper

I remember where everything is without a single photo.
The wall of masks behind that horrid ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Dreaming

Noah Summerhays

All it can take is a look, a glimpse
For mind, matter merge to magic
To explore the worlds we ... [+]

Poetry

Romance Nature 1 min

Field Guide for Park Rangers

Chelsea Stockham

How Yosemite can fit
within these four fragile walls,
stretched across the bedspread
with hip ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

In the Books

Annika Carlson

This life
was not the story we were told from the crib side this is not
what it was like on ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Rush

Brandon Muzyka

Rush not my child
For the road is long
When the world puts you down
Sing your lost song ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

happy endings

Melissa Robertson

you found heaven.
welcome to paradise, to ever
after. you made it.
you really did.
... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Truth About Angels

Magda Pfunder

My mentor came to take my hand
And with a voice so kind,
Said, “Come along and we shall ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

In Another World

Vamsi Katta

In this endless dream, there is hope
In this endless nightmare, there is fear
If beauty is ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Saw You Today

Gabriella Coronado

I saw you today.
This feeling will never change.
No matter how fast I walked away,
staring ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Flying Fire

Brennen Serre

To experience a Southern, Summer Night
Is really quite a treat
From the crickets, to trees ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

IMPACT

Samuel Cook

At once both compelling and
Macabre,
I quietly taste the image
Roll it around in my ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Yesterday

Monasa Lo

A slow chill
From my head to toes
But I’m immune
Cause it’s like my heart’s already so ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Tik tok on the clock but the party dont stop ohowoowo

Angela Larson

Oh, you want me to do this now? And in how long?
TICK I don’t think I work well under pressure ... [+]