Shaded apartments Flicker nervously As white lights Blink by the stairs Black, gray, white, black   Black, gray, white, black   Black, black, gray, black They tightly lace Hallways that lead To your sealed door It's been a long day You just want to be Swallowed wholeWhen you step in By Amaury Genao

and apparently in a hurry since you didn't finish your mealor even swallow your pills. Where was my reminder?A notification that you would not be coming upstairs for dinner. Why did you leave the house?Your breath exhausted by the exit;a brisk walk in the park taken alone. This long nap is a secret victorythat didn't … Continue reading You Left

Please! Stop! —Your words murderedmy internal monkeys. By Amaury

Teeth of flowers, hair of dew,hands of herbs, you, fine wet-nurse,ready the bedsheet of earth for meand the eiderdown of wild mosses. I’m going to sleep, my wet-nurse, put me to bed.Put a light beside my head;a constellation; whatever you choose;all are fine; turn the light down a little. Leave me alone: listen as the … Continue reading EP: I’m Going to Sleep by Alfonsina Storni

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956.   I can’t stand my own mind.America when will we end the human war?Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.I don’t feel good don’t bother me.I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.America when will you be … Continue reading Ep: America by Allen Ginsberg

Hurrah! to them who do nothing see nothing feel nothing whose hearts are fitted with prudence like a diaphragm across womb’s beckoning doorway to bar the scandal of seminal rage. I’m told the owl too wears wisdom in a ring of defense round each vulnerable eye securing it fast against the darts of sight. Long … Continue reading EP: Non-Commitment By Chinua Achebe

En el camino hay un silencio de palabra imposible La tarde reza en ermita de fuego Sobre el despoblado              hacen penitencia las sombras Las estrellas columpian la escalera por donde bajarán los ángeles a la tierra Mi vida se desangra gota a gota.  La tarde es una sola lágrima … Continue reading EP: En El Camino By Norah Lange

i’ve left Earth in search of darker planets, a solar system revolving too near a black hole. i’ve left in search of a new God. i do not trust the God you have given us. my grandmother’s hallelujah is only outdone by the fear she nurses every time the blood-fat summer swallows another child who … Continue reading EP: Dear White America by Danez Smith