Sometimes her hair is blood-moon red & even / her pill bottles seem filled with moonlight.
dearest was raptured away, and wouldn’t you know it, the remote was still in his hands, and now he’s taken all the cable with him
The glue habit started a week after you saw the woman. It was born of simple childish equivalence, but what can you do about it now? Your brother, Benjamin, once told you that soap cleanses impurities. He had seen someone’s mother stuff a bar of Dove soap into their open mouth because they’d said naughty words—“curse words,” Benjamin called them.
We wish all our readers a 2024 that brings justice and peace a little bit closer, and look forward to our shared task of finding the words that are meet for that task.