Four and Twenty

in spite of her bones
she still gets up to greet me
unconditional

R. A. Davis

R. A. Davis of Holbrook, New York, is a student at Mount Holyoke College.

Lineage

Ancestors cannot save you
though your blood may prove
in some double-helix way
that you have saved them.

Marguerite María Rivas

Marguerite María Rivas teaches in New York City. Her work has been published in such journals as The Americas Review, Earth’s Daughters, and Short, Fast, and Deadly. She is the author of Tell No One: Poems of Witness. | margueritemariarivas.com

Spring Song

Blue blue blue over everything
and what branches attach to it?

Branches that divide its brightness,
still unattached to names.

Michael Jones

Michael Jones teaches at Oakland High School in Oakland, CA. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.