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[after Louise Gluck’s “Grandmother in the Garden”] The dirt below your tomb has bloomed with earthworms, and the sun still keeps time in lines […]

February 9, 2024

YALE DAILY NEWS

POEM: Our Rituals Were Not

By Hudson Warm I. Your Room is a River & along the red riverbed I find myself & you, resting. The day’s toils flock […]

November 14, 2023

DU NGHIEM

POEM: Drift

October 16, 2023

MAIA SIEGEL

POEM: Little Green Peaches

I missed you while you were beside me / and the feeling filled me like a gas, ballooning / me into a mascot of myself.

October 15, 2023

ADIN FEDER

POETRY: Breakfast at Savta’s

There was a time / I loved to watch your hands / setting in against the stubborn pan.

April 3, 2023

IDONE RHODES

A Hunter’s Eulogy for Coyote

He invited us/the hunting dog and me/into the parlor. The old dog/streaked with grey like Coyote/cracked stale tea cookie/against his molars/Crumbs littered a fray-edged rug while/Coyote brewed peppermint tea.

February 28, 2023

CINDY KUANG

Sonnet

Yesterday, I found a dead sparrow with/no legs, stump body left on Whitney street.

December 9, 2022

DAVID DERUITER

The Real Thing

"Look, though, you can play this quiet kit! / Crush these pedals like thirsty leaves beneath you / or tease them apart like the hairs of a handsome boy."

December 9, 2022