Helen Dosedel, Contributing Writer
• February 18, 2026
My bitter yellow comes with me on walks.
It’s a shadow of a past that refuses to talk.
A room in Oklahoma filled with quilted flowers,
A closet with dolls and childhood trousers.
My...
Entre allí y allá, en oeste y este
Hogares . . .
Muchos
Entre allí y allá
No importa si mi brújula está rota
Siempre me dirijo a la casa que nunca voy a olvidar
Otro...
madre mia: you call for your mother as your soul leaps out
le trago el bano: toilet captures you, making you take a longer time in the restroom
mano chueca: the hitter's hand spikes the ball goes...
A 2-milligram size shrimp brain
It can’t remember much
what it ate or what it did the whole day
It takes a LOOONNGGG minute, sometimes even longer to think
needing constant...
I always get the short end of the stick.
Walking is harder if there is shattered glass on your soles.
I used to wear my lucky socks, but one of them went missing.
Now I wear ones with holes.
But...
There once was a young girl named ‘Lucky’
and all of her friends called her ‘Plucky’
but one rainy day, when she went on her way,
she stepped on her best rubber ducky.
‘My...
Luck surely dances here
On limestone steps
Where golden banners wave
And young hearts are kept
A wind chime’s ring, a snowfall’s grace
It finds us all in this heightened...
You hadn't planned to stay but the cold
and my comforter helped you uncover
the shape of freckles
underneath my foundation, and the feeling
of my fingers tracing the outline
of infinity along...
Sometimes I feel like a moth–fluttery,
and unsure where to go becuase
I have been handled too rough before, and
now my tiny scales are damaged.
They only saw dust. You see how delicate
I am....
I wish to be good
With every fluid action
But there are still wicked moments and evil hours
Regardless I still dream of being good
Villains may plague my day, my thoughts, but I still...