By Uzomah Ugwu The guards did not even give us numbers or sound the vowels in our broken names that were whole before we arrived at this destination that keeps us moving in grief. She asked what I wanted to eat like we weren’t going to die here at any minute, any hour, borrowed moments we could, [...]
By Elizabeth Weaver girl with eyes too large and milky teeth fairies must wait years for in country that ripped her from Mama locked her in metal cage no laughter crosses her howl swells into lost others’ sounds for families babies resounds past soiled dreams strips belonging as those ripping teach children how arms are [...]
By Melissa Reeser Poulin A week before Trump’s inauguration, I began bleeding, miscarrying a baby just shy of ten weeks—my daughter’s little brother or sister. While women marched on Washington and in my city’s streets, I huddled in bed, losing this new life and the last of my false impressions of my country. I wanted to [...]
