"Mimosifolia"

Joshua Bennette - Levi

"Ten years ago, the neurologist cast autism like a giant fishing net over his brain.

Took the entire family under the tide with it.

Never said gift.

Never suggested

maybe my Levi’s words weren’t rusty anchors

like the rest of ours.

They’re jellyfish:

You think you can see right through them,

but it’s because you’re only watching the surface.

His mind is more like the world’s most extravagant circus

all trapeze and lion teeth

drum beat and riotous laughter

Every sentence

a staccato hymn

in the midst of a world

that has forgotten how to value silence."

-Joshua Bennette

Our Children - Ramou Jallow

Gardenia - Jasmine Mas & Jennah Bell

"The last quarter has flushed itself into the belly of the jukebox, his lips has released its kiss from the saxophone, but I'm... but I'm still here... dancing... can someone tell me if I've crashed yet ?"- Jasmine Mans

Rudy Francisco

A great start to the day with Rudy Francisco, love this poem.

End Of Day Traffic

Miles Hodges and Carvens Lissaint - "Strive"

“May the days you wish you were somebody else

never return.

May you learn the braille of glory and happiness

until the sidewalks sing with everything you truly are,

and the street corners cave in your name,

and the nightmares are no more.

May the faith engulf depression into ash.

May the choirs of demons be muffled,

silent like the breeze of an explosion.”