"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...
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"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 92 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 92 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 132 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 132 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 132 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 131 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 132 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 302 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 301 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 ...
Sep 302 min read
"rebirth of eve" & "moth girl dreaming" by Hannah Gumpert
rebirth of eve Grow your own ribs this time. Your heart isn’t meant to be caged by anything but your own bones. When your being is borne...
Sep 242 min read
"Won't Let You Come To Nothing" by georgë kear
I am particles. Mist. Smack. Ice flakes. Grit. Ash. Floating fur. Loose and moving you can put your hands Through me Snag on hard places...
Sep 241 min read
"b-side" by Valeria Turp-Balazs
crashed into the foreign door of a person i’ve met and i don’t know at all watched your hand around a mug and counted times you kept it...
Sep 242 min read
"Time", "Excitement Equals", & "The Find" by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
Time Time loops like scalloped embroidery; rises, billows, then rejoins its stem – like on the head of a blooming flower, each petal is...
Sep 241 min read
"Time is a Yellowing Thing" by Eric Subpar
Time is a white but yellowing thing. I’ve got an ibuprofen bottle packed with psilocybin And a mind packed to the brim with thoughts I...
Sep 31 min read
"I Waited for An Ice Age", "Concerning Thursday", "Between his legs" & "Meat Raffle" by Ewen Glass
I Waited For An Ice Age I was told it would come; as I closed my book amid strawberry vapours ready to leave two came at once yes to be...
Sep 33 min read
"Everything that’s influenced my work/me (After Rosemary Mayer)" by Tara Giancaspro
Leopard print Grease My small cat daughter, Simone Leather Sugar My large cat son, Lugosi The Tom of Finland men who live in my sinew and...
Sep 31 min read
"Defeated Bulbs" by Andrew Buckner
eternity beacons a motorcycle cracks the crowd finds silence the dark lamp sears white through dark days, bright nights whispering...
Aug 181 min read
"Ever the Twain" by James B. Nicola
Mark Twain on growing old: Beats not. James B. Nicola is a returning contributor to RF. The latest three of his eight full-length...
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