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

Poetry

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sweetener

Jodi Bosin

i did a drum lesson on facetime
today, everything clumsy

i think i’m doing Okay™ but ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Finding Spring

Claire Petersen

Life rings of eternity

So stuck in fall I didn’t see if before,
rebirth after rebirth ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Redeem

Jacob Tammara

The journey to the sacred realm,
That years ago I had explored,
Was something that I could not ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Click to Enter

Shoshana Bockol

I am in / the laboratory / with my hands / pulsing / under nitrile sky / I swipe / my tongue over / ... [+]

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

Oasis

Cameron Noval

The sun is setting
Or is it rising?
Who’s to say

Is this the end of our day, ou ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Gen Z's Strange Fruit

Isabella Piacentino

We grew up glued to grains. Chipped pixels depicting clips and pictures. Last minutes of the latest ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Want

Becca Kruger

To soak –
in bathtub, in dish soap.
To marinate.
Remember –
one must be tender
before ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Panacea

Rachel Fields

If only empathy came in pill form.
A vitamin to flush the toxicity from our system
and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

shower

Drew Bell

this shower comes at night, before the heat has sputtered on and the oven hisses gas with dinner— ... [+]