Rhymes and Reminders
For when your heart speaks in fragments. Poems and pieces to keep you company. To feel deeply. To remember you're not alone.
by Carmen Giménez
"When I was a girl, I thought my storm would suck me into its eye and uncoil me from what I was."
Be Recorder
by Katie Wismer
"There is beauty in our ability to be surprised, to survive pain, to learn from sadness. What a tragedy it would be to feel only joy. How empty we would be to feel only happiness."
Poems for the End of the World
by R.H. Sin
"There's still magic in a heart that's been broken."
whiskey words & a shovel
When the Stars Wrote Back
by Trista Mateer
"I am still young and I already forget how to be happy."
by Katie Wismer
"This is me. This hopeless, sloppy, pitiful mess is me. And I am so fucking lucky to have her."
The Sweetest Kind of Poison
by Kate Baer
"Pick up your heavy burdens and leave them at the gate. I will hold the door for you."
What Kind of Woman
by Don Mee Choi
“My memory lives inside my father’s camera, the site where my memory was born, where my retina and my father’s overlap.”
CW · Heavy
DMZ Colony
by Sun Yung Shin
"I'm living in the future. I have also left myself behind."
CW · Heady
Unbearable Splendor
by Su Hwang
"한 1. verb [sojourn; something like a river]."
CW · Heady
Bodega
by Fatimah Asghar
"I'm a quiet girl, a rig ready to blow."
CW · Heavy
If They Come for Us
Buck Studies
by Douglas Kearney
"Who among us has not entertained a silence?"
CW · Heavy
Hull
by Xandria Phillips
"I write to you from the predicament of Blackness."
CW · Heavy
Monsters I Have Been
by Kenji C. Liu