emotional depth
— A prose poem imagines the inner life of a crab—its loneliness, fear, and anger—questioning whether people remember the being they've hurt after mounting it on a wall.
— Hope personified as an ambiguous companion who guides the speaker across treacherous terrain while knowing them intimately.
— A nine-year-old city girl boards a fishing boat and watches Hyannis dissolve in the distance like a homeland she's never visited.
— A bored car ride to Cape Cod transforms when the window frames a night sky full of stars, glowing trees, and the canal that signals almost home.
— A child's plea to be forgotten transforms everyday details—soup, Fruit Loops, a voice that travels through walls—into a meditation on presence and erasure.
— A cat's protective fury over its belly transforms into a meditation on violence that no one—not Earth, not people, not even the cat—truly wants.
— A young poet's urgent plea for environmental action warns that without animals, 'the world is a joke' and challenges readers to reconsider who is truly foolish.
— A young poet confronts fear as a physical presence, describing its effects on body and mind before declaring victory through direct combat.
— A young poet imagines a love drawing that awaits completion when the right hearts find each other, expressing patient hope for connection.
— Saturn leaves the solar system sobbing, returns later transformed—gray, shriveled, solid ice where gas once swirled, orbiting differently.