Category: Poetry

by Jazzib Akhtar
“Defeated an empire only to return to a different empire.”

by Aris Kian
“knots, cornrows, two-strand flat twists and drips between my legs, i’m taught to keep my girlhood”

by Aris Kian
“I am penned as dust and dawn, as sunlight
and pink horizon, mixing cement”

by Aris Kian
“Black girl be the best assistant / with how she falls / victim to a show / she never asked to be inspotlight
spotlight”

by Aris Kian
“furling, sucking air into his chest, & I thought, ‘that! that is the language I want for myself.'”

by Aris Kian
“to be unraveled under a moon”