Main Squeeze Literary JournalWe are Southern Oregon University's student-run literary magazine organized by Creative Writing students! For the 2024 issue, we are looking for works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art. Submit today!
I love you most in mundane moments—making my morning coffee.you ask what mug I wanteven though you knowI pick the same one every time. I’ve always been one for constantsso please, stay a whilelet’s drink our coffee long and slow,we have nothing but time. Siena Falzon is a graduate student in the Clinical Mental Health […]
the world would be little more than a UV-Vis Spectrumas seen through fogged-up goggles and stuffy lab coatsconcocted in a laban excess of oxytocin and octopaminelove would simply be 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diolit fluoresces at 450 nanometersa deep blue colornothing morebut love is redunless Taylor Swift wants to change her songand love is 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-dioland that doesn’t rhymeand so […]
i met myself at a gas station. it was just past twoin the morning and the air tasted different then. atjust past two. like lightning and diesel. thebright yellow of the gas station logo reflected in apuddle by the sidewalk. i couldn’t stop looking atit. i asked me why […]
Stuck my heart in a birdcage— except it wasn’t my heart that’s too cliché I’m sorry Stuck my— Stuck my head inside a birdcage because it can never give me what I need never the right energy at the right time at midnight / at noon its screaming but it never hurts when I want it too. […]
Izel goes to Bridgewater on Wednesdays wherehummingbird trumpets vibrate down chimneys,where the shore fills light bulbs with monsters andrubies. The air freezes clusters of bat icicles and fliesthem across feathertop. Fabrics of rue dry on clotheslinesand dangle over golden bird feeders. Orbs and spiritguides intrust the wisps with the task of creatingbridal wreaths. Mice skitter […]
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