Parenthood

The dentist is now the same
age as me, which is troubling,
mostly because of what I
have and have not done…

The money of  the mind is attention, maybe.
Which is not, initially, where I thought I’d begin,
but we…

Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
A stranger…

By Kate Partridge

By Joshua Bennett

Keetje Kuipers on becoming a single mother by choice, gardening topless, and leaping without looking.

The sea, I mean. If you walk out into
its maw without thought, you will die.
I don’t care what kind…

By Kirsten Kaschock

Morning in the city and the performance
that is Madison Avenue wearing diamond
studs for breakfast, my…

If, even now, I am excited about it: every cow & horse,
every canoe on the surface of Pyramid Lake—…

This morning, the wind whipped the trees
so hard one sycamore head snapped,
its leaves strewn on my…

By Serena Alagappan

By Miguel A. Vega

Another word for father is worry. 
Worry boils the water
for tea in the middle of the night.

Worry trimmed…

But I love the I, steel I-beam
that my father sold. They poured the pig iron
into the mold, and it fed out slowly,
a bending jelly in the bath, and it hardened,
Bessemer, blister, crucible, alloy, and he
marketed it, and bought bourbon, and...

In Francisco Oller’s El Velorio, a child lies
on a table as if sleeping. It is covered in lace

and blossoms…

When the purple snap peas in the garden
couldn’t find anything to grasp onto, the shoots
ferned into…

By Jordan Pérez

By Blas Falconer

Elisa Díaz Castelo on vertigo, breaking a chicken, and her grandmother's advice for a good life.