Itua Uduebo

They say enough drops fill the well
Watery graves fill the slowest

Gabriel Noel

“That anger says that it will always be Monday, that the pattern I’m seeing will repeat in perpetuity, that there is nothing to be done but to smash everything in the house and be tied to a chestnut tree.”

Kay Bell

I pray your America won’t be whitewashed in self-hatred
and your dreams more than clichéd metaphors

I also pray I haven’t disappointed you

Sage Ravenwood

BINGHAMTON, NY: Early in the morning on June 1, 2020, someone set fire to the OurSpace Playground in Recreation Park.

We have decided to reserve this week for anyone who wishes to use our site as an avenue of expression or a way to process their understanding of the tragedy with which we are all wrestling.

Elexis Trinity

“The helicopters overhead have syncopated with the birds, but all I can hear is the music of my community peacefully chanting:

I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I (still) can’t breathe.”

Malcolm X

“We have to go to the root. We have to go to the cause.”

Itua Uduebo

“I believe they tried to warn me and turn the plane homewards”

Regina A. Bernard

“It’s becoming murky. The names, the incidents, the actual meaning of our liberties and our injustices and our existences, all muddled.”

Jonathan Memmert

Nevertheless, spring persisted.

Constantine Jones

“The young people just aren’t mad enough.”

Gregory Hernandez

"If only we had access to the balcony.”

Samantha Jade Remigio

“I am not an essential worker. I should be more scared for them, I tell myself. They could bring the virus back home. My mother has asthma. But I don’t feel a thing. The world does not seem real to me anymore.”

David Groff

“Inching closer to death with no notes to show for it.”

Stewart Sinclair

The circumstances under which Memorial Day falls this year have brought me back to the same conclusions drawn by Kurt Vonnegut. “We are here, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

Kay Bell

Beyond the window

where the water brings

the handsome things

a song overrides the wreck

I listen

Hayden Corwin

“I had to tell my mother that graduation wasn’t going to happen. She cried over the phone.”

Dana Gainey

Now I’m here, and I like who I am here, but I find my current position, and this current state of affairs, as unconscionable, if not criminal.

Henny Neustadt

I wish I could accept my own advice. In times of silence all I do is worry, worry, worry, wonder when the next time will come that I can set aside to worry. I should start to put it into my schedule.

Nick Vidal

My mom enters the living room and finds me self-loathing on the couch. She can read my thoughts on my face. She stands there smiling until I finally look up and notice her. “Figure it out,” she says, and exits laughing.