Two Haibuns
Airily, you asked: “Do you think it’ll be hard coming back up?” and I replied yes, maybe, we’d see.
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our literature
Vien Santiago
- May 7
- 3 min
but will mine?
starring Vien Santiago in a conversation with himself (and incidentally, the rest of the young world).
Sukriti Sinha (Shea)
- May 7
- 1 min
ode to entropy
"i told you my town was twenty seven miles away as the crow flies, / it mattered in the moment, / and you laughed"
Sukriti Sinha (Shea)
- Apr 24
- 1 min
me and my dog
"for the hundredth time that year, we made ourselves a promise to create a house that my dog would be proud of."
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Feb 1
- 5 min
VLOG OF THE THURSDAY IN WHICH YOU GET YOUR U.S. PASSPORT PHOTO TAKEN
"These days, your finsta is only a slideshow of half-blurry photos of the horizon. Telephone poles arching in dark swathes."
Eunice Kim
- Jan 14
- 1 min
TURING TEST_ANATOMY
"saying girl / girl / girl / girl to a sleek / silver god. i stay ambivalent. bored / and bordered. hyphe-nation. am bivalent."
Mithila Rohit Tambe
- Nov 5, 2023
- 1 min
Good Tupperware
"Perhaps he could have created / Tupperware for someone like me. / Then could I have enclosed my rotting, / And shut it away"
Samira Abbey
- Nov 5, 2023
- 1 min
Luck
"Gems, crystals, stones / Red threads around my wrist / and powder between my brows."
Chris Fong Chew
- Nov 4, 2023
- 2 min
I hope this finds you well.
Subject: Message Failed to Send Message: Message to Ellen Failed to Deliver.
Samira Abbey
- Nov 4, 2023
- 1 min
Sunflowers
Today’s destruction will never be solved
/ if today's flowers leave the problems unresolved.
Mithila Rohit Tambe
- Nov 2, 2023
- 1 min
Warm Regards,
"I got COVID at a concert last week, and am still / recovering. / I inadvertently drank rotten milk last night."
Sukriti Sinha (Shea)
- Oct 2, 2023
- 1 min
happy
"my paper butterflies / crumple like your eyes when you're hurt / and when my feet remain cold / after hours under the blanket"
Chloe Lee
- Oct 1, 2023
- 1 min
if my eyes were blue...
as a child,
i longed to be blue-eyed.
with eyes like the ocean
or perhaps the sky above,
my life would be golden,
maybe at last i’d be loved
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Oct 1, 2023
- 1 min
Lilirose's Goodreads Page
Four new poetry reviews on Lilirose's Goodreads page!
Mena Minhanh Vo
- Sep 12, 2023
- 1 min
Human Nature
"i am in need of your callused, leathered palms / to sprout me where the soil rakes fertile"
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Sep 10, 2023
- 3 min
a letter to my past august selves
"There are two really big truths in life: 1. Ma was right—a cup of tea always helps. 2. Everything will change."
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