Happy #NationalPoetryMonth! For each day in April, we will be sharing a poem from our past issues

"Let me show you the world:
the beating heart
in the depth of the rock,
the shiny quartz
sun mocking."

— Lindy Newns, "Spring" http://www.ephemerereview.com/lindy-newns 

"a group of sharks is sometimes called a shiver
therefore we can name a group of women a coven
a group of girls a quake,
a movement of the earth"

— @chesseaa, "Sharks Are For Girls" http://www.ephemerereview.com/chestina-craig-dulcet

"o brief love of mine we promised each
other the future & we couldn’t even
make it a full calendar year—o everywhere
i think of you book-marks itself in
my chest"

— @TRENDGENDER, "Two Years After the Protest" http://www.ephemerereview.com/l-reeman 

"between jeweled desires & jaded
denials & gossamer hope & cobweb disappointment finally

fades and the cracks / spanning across our spines
blossom into something beautiful"

— Anne Gvozdjak, "A Fountain Aching" http://www.ephemerereview.com/anne-gvozdjak 

"how wondrous to dis-
connect as proof of once coming
together, to ripen, to know
your own name enough to call it."

— Courtney Felle, "Tu-lips" http://www.ephemerereview.com/courtney-felle 

"With my teeth I cut the good
skin of the fruit, reveal the core, and spin a secret for
this dance, a fresh-cut violence I can answer for you."

— @ek_anderson, "Shine Like a Brick in the Dirt" http://www.ephemerereview.com/e-kristin-anderson

"the likeness of love, the shadow aspect. O, a medley of skin trying to / find an answer."

— @lisamariebasile, "You Will Always Ever Be a Tulip" http://www.ephemerereview.com/lisa-marie-basile