@WriterLDavis It’s a gorgeous poem, Lauren! Thanks for sending it our way!

If you’re on the other place 🦋 please come find us there. We’ll drop by here on occasion, but it will never be home again. Be strong. Write as if our lives depended on it.

@realLEXcalibur It’s a beautiful, heartbreaking poem - Thank you for entrusting it to us, Alexa

!!Issue 29!! Martha Rhodes Angela Arnold Daniel Brennan Marisa P. Clark Shome Dasgupta Lauren Davis Abbie Doll Alexa Doran Charles Douthat Taylor Franson-Thiel Karen Hildebrand Jill Klein Justin Lacour Suzanne Langlois Emily Light Sam Moe Sara Quinn Rivara

@andrewbertaina Well done, Andrew!

"'Do flamingos have a pancreas?' my father asks, reaching for a cup of crushed ice. He moves gingerly, as if he’s afraid of breaking himself. I Google it. Yes..." from "My father is obsessed with the Flamingo Cam at Zoo Miami" by Beth Sherman

@tcboudreau @Stanchion Congratulations!!

"Dream. My mother is covered in dust, clawing her way to the surface, she’s still alive and struggles to find her way out. She emerges, clumps of dirt hanging off her silver hair..." from "There Is No Ordinary" by Rebecca Tiger

"I was a math major and didn’t know anything about generational trauma, but my grandmother fell through the ice of a pond she was skating on, drowning when my mother was five, and I was afraid of water." from "Comfort Zone" by Liz Ross

"It was in the air when she woke; the dog was delighted to see her of course, but the windows dribbled condensation. The kitchen was too thick with silence for breakfast. Her apple blinked." from "Her Story" by Eleanor Porter

"I uncap a bottle and watch the snake from the lawn chair I dragged inside after the storm warning. For a while, I’m mesmerised by those two dark pink eyes on a flat skull." from "Something Cold in the Grass" by Catherine Roberts

@AbbieDollWrites A fabulous poem! We’re so pleased you sent it our way

@abairrud2021 It’s powerful and lovely! Thank you for sending it to us, Catherine

"he’s never wanted her. As a baby, he only took a bottle from her husband. Learning to walk, he fell rather than reach for her hand. When other moms complain their toddlers need them for everything, Joan stays quiet.." fr "Mama Bear" by Laura Leigh Morris

@yallaalia Thanks for submitting it to us, Ali! We’re proud to publish it

"...the mother had once dreamt of a cat flattened out on the sidewalk. She remembered this dream now. It was a dream she had when she first suspected her husband might leave the family for the younger woman..." fr "The Terrible Bed" by Carolyn Mikulencak

@AM_a_writer A fantastic piece, Anthony! So glad you sent it our way!

"...on an empty bus headed to my evening shift he announced: Chadwick, here only for a time. Like cicadas. Just us there, gray sleety hellswirl outside..." fr "Boy You Wonder" by Anthony Martin