Camila Contreras

“We wander in the sun before stopping
–along the banks of the River Teith
my feet are at rest, but my mind is flying far away” 

Barbara Daniels

“I walked among trees 

every day till I found a swastika
painted on asphalt.”

José Roldan, Jr.

“I’ve dealt with anxiety for as long as I can remember, but it has been a beast these past seven months.”

Kelly Esparza

“I was drawn to a place I’d never been to before. It was like a secret that I’d stumbled upon—one that was special and all mine.”

Daniel Romo

“When you are here, you are always on a permanent vacation from gentrification.” 

Elianna Lippold-Johnson

“We are sorry to inform you
but the house must come down.” 

Marisabel Rodriguez Ramos

A conversation on birds and the anthropocene with Erik Anderson, author of ​Bird (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Helen Bowie

“Around the sixtieth beat, the Twin Peaks music drifts into my consciousness; I feel it in my veins.”

Palmer Smith

Wait about four days to respond
to a short text like “how r u?”
and make sure to write
“everything is fine.”

Adam Chabot

“He gets it. He knows what “sick” means. He’s felt it. But it’s a terrible line.”

Aaron Sandberg

Christmas lights or a house on fire? Depends on how you look at it.

Gale Acuff

“If I was a cow I could moo the Lord's Prayer for all to hear. But still, sooner or later, they'd eat me.”

John Chrostek

“May the good growth, the better way
take its place come the spring.”

Kendra King

“I may not be an artist, but I wanted to record what went through my mind, in the best way I could (with my son's Crayola set) and not worry about what I am, how good I am, or what I am not.”

Noeme Grace C. Tabor-Farjani

“I miss my mother.             I might visit her today.”

Justin Rovillos Monson

“If a race war pops off, we all know what it is” 

Alan Ten-Hoeve

A father finds that the pandemic has let him fall out of old mundane habits, and he’d give anything to have that innocuousness back.