Some habits are hard to break—waking three minutes before the alarm, having to fall asleep with one foot left outside…
Rebirth in Embroidery
Hand embroidery. 2017. – NOTE FROM THE ARTIST: “I was analyzing fashion articles and images in an early 19th century…
I Will Braid My Sorrow
Mi hija, let me braid your hair. Let the pain and hurt stay between your fine curls rather than spread…
Five Poems
Blind Séance Sears Disordered blind seer’s sight: meaningless pen scribblings and cave scratching shredding all material gains & guns to…
Saturnine Lunation
Mixed media. 2017. – By Ashley Johnson. Ashley was born in the historic Northside of Fort Worth, TX under a…
Half Moons
I. The half-moon knows my whole name and it knows my father’s father didn’t speak to my parents until after…
Sankofa
In my younger and far naiver years, I decided I wanted to get a second tattoo. This tattoo, I had…
Perennial
At the dawn of the decade I was alone in the fishbowl and writing or waiting for someone to remind…