elementia

Aphrodite Defiled

By Farah Dianputri

I didn’t ask for your 

insecurities

Or your hands 

To venerate me.


City in the River

By Jacob Cone

The lights of the city shine brighter than any star.

a cool breeze cuts through the humid night air.

the sidewalk is cracked by too many steps in everyone’s one-thousand-mile journey.


Deli Shop Blues

By Caleb Bishop

clouds

pink and blue smears

go over my head

like the moon

or calculus.

i long to float up there

where i could eat eclipse and crackers

and differentiate my thoughts.


divination for the divine

By Alrisha Shea

look at them,

so cavalier, drinking

future-liquor in a future-