It’s been twenty years since you kissed
Madonna at the VMA’s.
And I saw on TikTok that you did it again
at your wedding last June.
(But maybe that was deep ...
where Tim and Wendy White haven’t cut their hair
in seventeen years & Tim is a bass player in a never found
fame band & Wendy struggles with her 1989 ...
Tonight I drink merlot from the depression
glasses Grandma collected from the EM Loew’s Theater.
I wonder what her fave movies were in 1925.
I worked a...
After Sonnet 59
William,
In this miracle composed of your frame,
I am here writing over your sonnet in spring 2022.
On my TikTok feed someone is trying to...
Not the Hi-C Orange Lava Burst version—
But the real deal 100% fruitless
kind they doled out in yellow Igloos on field day or
at your 7th grade dance where t...
You sip your Fit Vine wine from your filled-to-the-top Yeti. You don’t want to get up to pour more. Or, maybe, you want to say you only have one “glass” a nigh...
Then suddenly, one day in 1925, success. John Logie Baird transmitted the first ever recognisable TV image across his attic workroom. The image was of his ventr...
As I watch Love Island,
as I partake in my Rosé and Cheez-Its,
as my daughter scrolls through her newsfeed,
as she tells me she can't believe
that I watch t...
In 1804, Ignaz Troxler made the discovery that rigidly fixating one’s gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary images to seem t...
Victoria Nordlund's poetry collection Wine-Dark Sea was published by Main Street Rag in 2020. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee, whose work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Rust+Moth, Chestnut Review, Pidgeonholes, and elsewhere. Visit her at VictoriaNordlund.com