I'd like to study you in stillness

If I could brush my memory clean, I believe you would be the only thing that would remain.

Not one soul dares to doubt her.

He appreciates a good pun and a quality sandwich.

I don’t remember if they, on their own, let the balloons go.

Between one lost creature and another, it makes no difference.

I might be a pretend stripper but I know about striptease.

To record Harper singing would be a double-edged blade, a means to preserve a moment while at the same time focusing my attention on something other than the moment.

Major 7th Magazine: Your literary mixtape. Curated weekly.

Saying “you be good.”

Girls trying to be women in all the wrong ways.

I’m so uncool.

We’re clomping the grapevine, like molasses.

How does the punchline go?

Romancer? Chancer? Prancer? Is he asking if he has cancer?

"Just something my body needs right now. This song.”

It’s one that refuses to take stock of damages.

"Just something my body needs right now. This song.”

On folding.

You said I really needed to stop being the security, I was the bartender only.

And I want to be held. And I want someone to hold onto.

Five stories, five albums, one fave.

Here’s something. It will take the edge off.

Five stories, five albums, one fave.

When did my life begin to unfurl?

You think I’m a sick puppy?

Five stories, five albums, one fave.

No mistaking when Ray's in the neighborhood.

Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, reviews, and drawings can be found in a variety of publications. Rachel is passionate about im...

five months not speaking twenty generations of fruit flies

Five stories, five albums, one fave.

I’d put faith in our bodies—four tall boys to one small girl—to keep time.

Every day there’d be new content of me scaring the bejeebies out of her in unexpected places.

Five stories, five albums, one fave.

When did my life begin to unfurl?

On acts of resistance.

Five stories, five albums, one fave.

Five stories, five albums, one fave.

Five stories, five albums, one fave.