“Close your eyes and open your mouth,” he says.And I do as I am told, because I’m a parent. I close my eyes, open my mouth, and wait. Everything is dark and I can hear my son breathing, close to me, w...

I t’s the moment you wake up in your dorm room on the floor, your clothes on, your shoes off, a sleeping bag draped over you. You don’t know how you got there, to your dorm room, to the floor. You rem...

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Sumitra Singam Listen to Sumitra read her prose poem The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on over the speakers and they remember studying…

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

It's that time of the year again! Time for the feral DLP drabble contest! Deadline: Oct 18th midnight Word limit: 100 words Theme: corrupt writing groups/associations (don't use real people's names ...

I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

“Stay in bed,” I sing to you. A line from our favourite song.“Stay in sheets,” you reply, and we laugh and tumble again, tangle in white cotton.When my breathing slows, I lie back under your arm, eyes...

“And then one fairy night, May became June.”I have always liked that line by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is the sort of thing you notice only when you pay attention. It is like one day the air changes and...

The waterfall doesn’t care that you’re here.This is the first true thing anyone has told you in years.You drove nine hours. You ate gas station bread. You pissed behind a lava rock that had been cooli...