by Avril Shakira Villar
Will you take a moment to look around you?
Countless of injustice stories to be told in this little town.
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by Yuan Changming
Above this wild wild world covered
With layers and layers and layers
Of red dust, my selfhood
Has long been tired
Tired of flying
Flying alone
Day & night
To the Citrus Trees in Kambos
by Eriana Ktistakis
hazy hues of summer wrap around
me like a blanket, the world tinted shades of
amber. bare feet in gentle earth,
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Leaving Was The Hardest Until It Wasn’t
by McKenna Ashlyn
It was the winter everyone was moving east,
chain smoking cigarettes, snorting cocaine.
Trying to curate a museum of themselves.
I’m sorry, I’ve been writing anything but myself.
The Bus
by Jessica Tan
The long, yellow bus screeches to a halt next to the curb as you lift your eyes up, watching the doors fan open for the first time this fall. You spent all morning organizing your school supplies, thinking of what your new schedule would be like. But first, you have to make the journey there. And if you had it your way, you would drive there yourself. If you were old enough.
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Summer, 2008
by Rachel Nicholson
Walking barefoot on the pavement, my soles begin to melt.
It sings of the dirt that came before it—
It hums with heat and memory.
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