New Poems in the Nest
“I’ve sat still, hunched / my nails like / animal deep ragged moons..”
from “Swamp Molly”
“Lately, I’ve been feeling like Jesus’s sister. / Who knew that Jesus even had a sister?"
from “Driving Poem”
New Poems in the Nest by Katey Funderburgh
“I have tried / to be good. Pour the wine, wash the sand / from my calves." From “Balm”
“love will play out like rainwater / along the gutters of our street damning / the leaves in their river.” From “November has September hands”
New Fiction Story in the Nest
by Phi Le
“Not once in my life have I ever been considered good-looking or remarkable in any way. I have an utterly forgettable face, and I generally don’t like to say much. That’s fine. I just do what I’m supposed to” by Phi Le
New Poems in the Nest
“There are night patterns and day patterns and / butterflies evolving from moths after being like / what if we’re awake during the day…”
By Fran Matos
”lifted us up / into a multicolored sky. A song did / this, when sloshed into the half-truths / of teenhood”
By Guinotte Wise
New Poems in the Nest by Kailah Figueroa
“Memory does not flinch at my interrogation. I can’t go back. I leave it there alone.”
from “Two Inlets in Winter”
“I make you laugh but not on purpose. I don’t want to be a funny woman anymore. I want to be a good man for you.” from “Our Names Are Not On the Mortgage but We Are Playing Homeowners For a Bit”
New Poems in the Nest
“to scar as a man might.”
from “For Shelley and Stryker, who leapt from the head of Zeus” By Sebastian Ellios
”I am thinking / of sound of the sound of / the clatter on the tile of / the tile on which I shattered.”
from “Restlessness” By Flora Field
