Summer ‘25

by Grayson Michael Harper

  I tore into Texas at 12:59 in the afternoon on October 7th, 2005. The high that day was 91 degrees, and the max dewpoint was 77; my lucky number twice over.

by Maximiliano Layton-Aramburo

Bluebonnet spring covers Texas,

flowers so beautiful and pirstine

to the southern state

by Cameron Lightfoot

Armadillidium vulgare, The Roly Poly

& Chimney Rock taught me Isaiah was a protector; bugs are harmless

By Rhea Brennan

i met texas on the roadside next to a cow farm / he kissed me on my cheek & traced my jaw with straw fingers / i realized then, that he was a scarecrow

By Miguel Rauh-Hain

backroads and country you pull me up cowboy  / tip my hat and dance with me over a bottle of beer / i’ve never been one for whisky / but your crackle / pot stained lips / touch mine

By Daniela Matassa

For my twenty-first birthday, I got a sticker of democracy slapped onto my back
When I could legally make decisions whilst craddling Christ’s blood in a flask

by Julian Black

a life begins from

loud bright cleansing

and a wet caul

by Audrey Marilyn

There’s such a nameless feeling that people get inside 

their stomach when they drive through the texan fields

by Samiyah Green

Black girls have so much in common with Mary

They drink from the fountains of eternal life

And pray along the stars of the ghetto

by Juniper Renshaw

i am the gleam of a cumbersome first kiss / shaking the sky and your warm hands / like the fate of forty fortune cookies / white paper folded slipped inside thin creases of my skin

by Lianna Chap

My hair frays and sticks out like weeds / but they are really black silky thread / Slip them through the small hole of a needle, / and sew my holy jeans together.

by German Ramires

Mother Earth made you with a green pigment / the same pigment she used to color herself into / existence because if no one listened to her / she’d make her own ears.