On folding.

Saying “you be good.”

Girls trying to be women in all the wrong ways.

I’m so uncool.

We’re clomping the grapevine, like molasses.

How does the punchline go?

Romancer? Chancer? Prancer? Is he asking if he has cancer?

"Just something my body needs right now. This song.”

It’s one that refuses to take stock of damages.

Side A: "Brother, Sister" • mewithoutYou "Moveys" • Slow Pulp "No Need to Be Lonely" • Gladie "Solo Piano" • Ludovico Einaudi "Vescia Piscis" • Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys Side B: "Lobsters" • Jenna Crowder for Pithead Chapel "Let's Say This is a Self-Graded Exam and Not a True Story from Your Life" • Claire Hanlon "Tell Me If You Think This Is Funny" • Cassidy Menard for The Ex-Puritan "A Slow Boil" • Adrian Dallas Frandle for hex Literary "Things I thought about while drivin

On moonlighting.

Greatest hits.

Greatest hits.

I want to see the design in everything.

You said I really needed to stop being the security, I was the bartender only.

Here’s something. It will take the edge off.

And I want to be held. And I want someone to hold onto.

When did my life begin to unfurl?

No mistaking when Ray's in the neighborhood.

Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, reviews, and drawings can be found in a variety of publications. Rachel is passionate about immigrant rights, teacher support, and empowering other artists. She is a Writers’ Hour prize winner and Best of the Net nominee. Her photography appears on a few magazine covers. Rachel runs the popular online reading series Poetry (in Brief). She is on staff at Bare Back Magazine