• High Stakes

    High Stakes

    Yo, how do I make a grilled cheese sammich? Seriously, I need you to tell me. My parents kicked me out months ago. I…

  • JO

    JO

    Hey, listen. Before she was a war bride, before she was your mother’s mother, before she was Jo, she was Johan, daughter of Willy…

  • Rotten

    Rotten

    “Get a job, Brim!” my mother screamed at the top of her lungs. You could tell she was mad  because her eyebrows were furrowed,…

  • Wonderful World

    Wonderful World

    Talia rises before the sun. She never uses an alarm clock—the one beside her bed doesn’t work anyways, perpetually stuck at 12:00 pm. Rather,…

  • Spirit Bead

    Spirit Bead

    Every Wednesday after class, I got on the 88 and rode 45 minutes to Noohkoom’s house. She lived in a small beat-down community situated…

  • A Summer Job

    A Summer Job

    A circuitous route brought me to Carleton University in the summer of 1958. Spending money required a job, so I found work at the…

  • Fate Lies In Red Thread

    Fate Lies In Red Thread

    Two people, connected. Connected through two lives. A life that could have been beautiful Was hard and exhausting instead. You cut it short in…

  • Well that’s Rich! (2020)

    Well that’s Rich! (2020)

    I stand       in line for the        fruit punch  boxed juice        and straws to pierce the         plastic  clutching three          new…

  • generic vampire poem

    generic vampire poem

    I sink my teeth into your text. I scroll through vineyards of unskippable ads and wonder what I’ll have for lunch. Simon Turner’s poetry…

  • EXERCISING WONDER

    EXERCISING WONDER

    I go for walks like I did at age 6 6-year-olds don’t follow one path,  They don’t regulate themselves Or know when they’ll get…