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"Cult leaders for starters" by Christian Ward
I met a man who swallowed goats whole — horns and all. I know this because he lifted up his pale blue Oxford shirt and pointed to a pair...
Dec 15, 20241 min read
"Second generation" "Portrait of a Woman in Bed" "Hokku Written at a Food Market" & "Hokku Spoken Before a Winter Sleep" by Tim Thiện Nguyễn
Tim Thiện Nguyễn (he/him) is a Vietnamese American scientist whose Ph.D. research interrogates how genes shape our face in the womb. He...
Dec 15, 20243 min read
"on what a negroni could taste like", "it’s a terrible life!" & "Michael, I—" by Erica Leslie Weidner
on what a negroni could taste like i think a negroni tastes like sweat / i think a negroni tastes like blood i mean come on it looks like...
Dec 15, 20242 min read
"I ask half a bivalve shell some questions but end up answering the questions myself" by Jane Burn
Do you crave your other half? Yes, when the storms come and the animals have spread themselves far from the croft, out across the dark...
Dec 15, 20242 min read
"The cost of living…" by Poetic Dad
What’s it cost? The cost of living, that is. How many of us are struggling? Why is my life considered valueless? No matter what we do,...
Dec 15, 20241 min read
"famous monsters of film-land" by DJ Wolfinsohn
the last time anyone saw her she was smoking Pall Malls in the back of a town car and ashing into a green glass brick. now, rising from...
Dec 15, 20242 min read
"Driven" & "Absurd Ode" by John Repp
Driven What a strange word “driven” is, none the stranger for being hummed in a dream of driving a DeSoto with three on the column, the...
Dec 2, 20242 min read
"The first time Audrey flies a kite", “Last night”, & "The first time your first child bleeds" by Brian Baker
The first time Audrey flies a kite from a tweet by Audrey Burges Across a tract of wireless sky ...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
"Waiting on the train" & "Saudade" by Arlo Arctia
waiting on the train. i missed my stop on the metro about five exits ago, somewhere between Pentagon City and King St., but i have no...
Nov 17, 20241 min read
"The Choreographer" by Anne Whitehouse
for Ohad Naharin You can listen to music with your eyes closed, but you cannot watch dance with your eyes closed. When I was young, I...
Nov 17, 20242 min read
"I, Too, Am the Face of Humanity" by Andrew Buckner
I saw the true face of humanity– Masses gathering, phones alight, Recording, photographing the scene, Loudly, excitedly chattering about...
Nov 9, 20242 min read
"Rochester", "The Mass Marketing Email Says We Will Miss You After I Smash That Unsubscribe Link" & "Home" by James Croal Jackson
Rochester We walked across the bridge to Genesee but didn’t walk into the brewery. Then we walked further, a little later, a mile...
Nov 9, 20242 min read
"To Fill Their Glasses Once Again" & "The Poem Escapes Me" by April Ridge
To Fill Their Glasses Once Again Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman and Frederico Garcia Lorca walk into a bar. That’s all. No joke. Just one...
Oct 13, 20242 min read
"Lady Liberty arrives belting Bruce Springsteen" by Julianna Reidell
and by the time we order drinks she’s lit two cigarettes. She says, (while breathing in smoke from harbor fires), Glo-ree days! Says,...
Oct 13, 20242 min read
"Into the Land of Nod" by Alex Stolis
Into the Land of Nod Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them Her...
Oct 13, 20242 min read
"Snowscape", "White on White", and "The Bronze Bust" by Mark Belair
SNOWSCAPE Flakes gathered on a stone, on a leaf, on the arm of a lawn chair left out. A coating of snow, I suppose I could say. Yet ...
Oct 13, 20241 min read
Five Haikus by J. R. Wilkerson
birthday toads children laugh singing sapo verde to you, some green jumped-up gringo from the top rope hit with a steel chair when the...
Oct 13, 20242 min read
"non-BINARY" by Maxine Moriwaki
my body [01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001] is only 2 states of being a 1 or 0 follow my line of symmetry & it becomes [01100010...
Sep 30, 20242 min read
"Hallowed Be Thy Shape" & "tomorrow, please" by Terri Gower
Hallowed Be Thy Shape After the Lord’s Prayer My body, which art on earth, Hallowed be thy shape; Thy touch come; Thy body be loved In...
Sep 30, 20241 min read
"Like a hair-tie or a gas station receipt" by Kit Steitz
Make me a bookmark. You can leave me folded in, forgotten, because one woman’s trash is another woman’s bookmark. And I will spread ...
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