crip wisdom ghazal

By Tala Khanmalek unbound pages carry my inheritance from Baba
a strategy to get around the system, like Baba

Apokaluptein

By Hayan Charara The Arab apocalypse began around the year
of my birth, give or take—
the human apocalypse,
a few thousand years earlier.

By Caridad Moro-Gronlier if i should
take you
to that spot
by the water
you can’t pronounce
but love

By Arianna Monet I say Well, it is a compound word, so..

Code. Noun.
A system of marking things with different colors
as a means of identification.

By Joselia Rebekah Hughes Black able rack able
hack able tack able
lack able slack able

By Liza Sparks When a ponderosa pine
is over one hundred—
it sheds a layer of bark.

By Michal 'MJ' Jones You are [found] in
cherry blossom trees / heron bird flight /rib-
bon of night / space between stairs / rose

By Jessica (Tyner) Mehta Conductor drives us, the cow-
catcher barreling straight into the teeth
of Memory’s harshest winter.

By Kateema Lee She grew up hearing about girls
who never made it to womanhood, girls
whose names wore away with each decade

By Juan J. Morales Like two hands pressed
together, they are twice as large
on the island. One feeds