Kylan

She wears pearl studs, lobes made softer by freshwater edgelessness. Her lips break open like a bottle christening when she laughs. She has two good haunches in blue jeans. They ...

Pain Today I learned two things: that Dr. Jack Kevorkian died early this morning in Michigan and that there are bison in my state— a blue creature I thought reserved ...

Reminds of William Carlos Williams as only a simple poem carrying the weight of the world on its shoulders can. It seems to me that here you attempt to tackle ...

A/N: It's about that time of year again. I'll be posting poetry here throughout the summer. Feel free to comment on one or all, at random or recent. -- Swahili ...

Prompt: Your story is about an artist in 1984 forgetting names. / I cannot, for the life of me, recall your name. The swan frightens the bear away by spreading ...

Apparently, when you use the search bar, it fetches threads only with the keyword from 2007 and before. Nothing from 2007 to the present. Kylan

A/N: Draws heavily from the book Falling Into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature (which I highly recommend). Two Way Mirrors An Essay Discussing Various Reading Models &Their Implication

This poem has strong sound and rhythm, which is fitting, considering the title of the poem and the reoccuring motif of cicadas. Also fitting is the play between the words ...

i pick jovian fruit in the santa anas bodies so seeped with gravity and tugged cells of sweetness that they gather an orbit of bees like a retinue of moons ...

We are proud of our indigenous populations. The Cayuse, Klamath, Chetco, Umpqua, Ahantchuyuk—all belonging to diverse linguistic stocks and defined by the sediment poetry of a salmon's cycle. We are

heroes may paps through dogwood; the apple-blossoms collapse like colonial capitals against a sugarcane uprising, or ways of life which included churning butter, hooping barrels, ordering goods from a

asl you get to examining the mouth, how lips pull to make vowels muscles dragging the weight of the face into the deep coral of a consonant like the ribbony ...

death toll The first man to die in Kentucky in a long time in tulips placed purposefully as maneuvered troops. roofs peeled back like pool-side skin; in the wind, hammocks ...

what is found after rain in it fragments of blue shell like a tortoise's age— the fallen nest woven out of alfalfa, ribbon, twine thorned together with the same mud ...

on drugs a fourth thousand years in the old ram of a skull, a spine that tongues up to a white drought like canvas months sliding into bubonic autumn. you ...