Sonnet Containing The Word Blue by Jennifer Espinoza
"I think I can hear the river in the distance
or maybe cars, or maybe birds, or maybe
the sound of my heart fishing for itself in my chest.
Pulling into the driveway after a long day of work,
I imagine you inside, conjuring up light, making
beauty from the inbetween minutes of dusk."
we do not talk about charlie by Tramaine Suubi
"yes, little else to do but delay
the decay & fit him for a stiff suit from the cheap fashion
district, while his mother thanks Almighty that she will bury
her son proper. nearing the end, he pens silent elegies for all
the selves he kills for a bought dignity."