Finishing School by Emma Bolden

Finishing School by Emma Bolden

Finishing School   Emma Bolden     Couldn’t sugar. Couldn’t sweet right. Couldn’t rat- comb, couldn’t tease the boys with a belt and a bra, Madonna   coned. Couldn’t talk lady. Couldn’t coo. Couldn’t bless   the heart of Jesus till he bleached...
Finishing School by Emma Bolden

Sensorium by Emily Corwin

Sensorium Emily Corwin 1 in dappled sun, in wine sap apples I dab prismatic gloss atop my cupid’s bow—the philtrum it’s called, it’s chrome-like. I have a mouth & it stinks— this is where I masticate the animal brisket, the pie pumpkin & red plums, pomegranate...
Finishing School by Emma Bolden

Barn Point by Talin Tahajian

Barn Point   Talin Tahajian   I’ll always be where rainbows are, forever in the Maine-bright stars, when sunsets light the eveningtide, with the moon in sparkling skies, with the rising sun each morning, with the quiet of dawn by the sea, along the beloved...
Finishing School by Emma Bolden

Contributors

Contributors     Toby Altman is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and five chapbooks, including recently Security Theater (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016). His poems can be found in Crazyhorse, Jubilat, Lana Turner, and other journals and...