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Astronaut Barbie Claims Her Moon

By: R. Weisserman

18 Sep 2023

She is leaving the world that is pink with desire, on her gray cardboard rocket ship.

By: Lydia O’Donnell

11 Sep 2023

The remains of a white dwarf will always rot / Too weak for a black hole or pulsar

Someday, I identify as a Prairie

By: Nnadi Samuel

11 Sep 2023

thank the edges for being jagged & improper, thank the blade’s music for making a mohawk of the grasses

By: Peter O'Donovan

4 Sep 2023

Gravity calls you, draws you back...

From Summerland

4 Sep 2023

your robe’s light, long sleeves swimming / with your motion, the trees bear fruit

By: Makena Metz

28 Aug 2023

You sucked on those mineralized / meteorites, eyes shining silver, and they named you / Star Eater.

The Grey Witch’s Haibun: Japan, 1870 - 1871

By: Calie Voorhis

28 Aug 2023

Some scholars of prosimetric charms point to the order of invocation in this haibun as similar to her subsequent summoning of Erishkigal, first lady of the Underworld.

When the Time Comes to Split the Gym

By: Haley Bossé

21 Aug 2023

Here, I’m not the only insect breathing in bacteria / and breathing out whole communities.

By: Mukut Borpujari

21 Aug 2023

making the place airy and less cluttered

By: Kenton K. Yee

14 Aug 2023

Ice, how I want her ice.

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