New Poems in the Nest
“"i let it drown, you know. sometimes / i don’t care what the ringing / means.” from “#17”
By ceara margaret hennessey
“"kissing those tender-most junctures— / the ones implying permanence.” from “our moment under the sun” By Kelsey L. Smoot
New Poems in the Nest
”plastic bags about to burst with empty / bottles and recyclables. / I think of my mother as a child.”
from “What One Does for a Living” By Lorenzo
“Have you ever pulled into the driveway / of a waiting house? An entire house waiting for you?”
from “Location, location, location” By Maria Santa Poggi
Read both poems here.
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
