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