Archive (Page 8) • The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael

2023-06-11 Embrace. / Grow flowers with your lungs

2023-06-04 emigration is never an election issue

2023-05-28 Stars are great drops / Of golden dew.

2023-05-21 Whatever / what is is is what / I want.

2023-05-14 now I start to understand her love

2023-05-07 Because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying.

2023-04-30 This rain. / The blues gone gray / and yellow

2023-04-23 The recent buds relax and spread, / Their greenness is a kind of grief.

2023-04-16 There are no curses—only mirrors

2023-04-09 So many of us are breathless, / you know, like me

2023-04-02 There are no good kings. / Only beautiful palaces.

2023-03-26 I stepped outside to answer and rain / Beat my chest.

2023-03-19 Everything’s a testament To life lived on the fringe

2023-03-12 a kind of terror / at the chain / of events

2023-03-05 Empty jar: / I think to grow beansprouts and look into ordering seeds.

2023-02-26 we would speak / in auto-rhyme, the world would echo itself

2023-02-19 I would do it all over again: Be the harbor and set the sail,

2023-02-12 How do you know what you want / If you don’t tell you?

2023-02-05 things that can't be undone come to call, / muttering recriminations at the door,

2023-01-29 7. monster until proven ghost / 8. gone