"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...
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- 5 days ago
- 3 min
"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...
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
"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 18
- 1 min
"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...
- Aug 18
- 3 min
"Sonnet for a Real Slag","Classy Birds", "Eating In", "Subchorionic Hematoma" & "After Swimming" by Katie Beswick
Sonnet for a Real Slag One day, she’s gonna be obese, that slag. Salt and vinegar McCoy’s for breakfast — pulls at your bedsheets like...
- Aug 18
- 2 min
"Found", "Nothing" & "All Things" by Allison Thung
Found I Unmoored by spectacles, my features float like boats adrift in the vast ocean of my face. From land—claims that shadow...
- Aug 18
- 2 min
"Shadow Boxers" & "In the Leaving" by James Lilliefors
Shadow Boxers Here again, that strange time of day when certain shadows of the past meet less-than-certain shadows of the...
- Aug 4
- 1 min
"My Side of The Bed" by Tim Moder
I feel your fingers work my hair like a jar of butterflies. You’re laying sideways on my pillow and you worry I won’t feel you. Just your...
- Aug 4
- 2 min
"The Irony in Feeling Small and Seeing a Shrink" by Nicholas Grooms
Tried and true fashions never seem to be in not on catwalks or clothed mannequins a juice cleanse and diet pill racket spamming your...
- Aug 4
- 2 min
"Reincarnation", "We Don't Always Choose who We Love", "The Passing of the Night", "Copperhead", & "It's Hard to Do Right by Everyone" by Steve Passey
Reincarnation There is, in a small city in Michigan, an old man sitting in an old chair in his living room. He is pleased with his bowel...
- Aug 4
- 2 min
"High Desert", "Love Poem on a Glacier", & "Fifth Water" by Melissa Jean
HIGH DESERT Dusk, and the moon is three-quarters full and bright as a harpsichord note in the sky. And lightning flashes on both horizons...
- Aug 4
- 2 min
"supermoon aubade", "unraveling" & "eucalyptus" by Elle Cantwell
supermoon aubade before the iron sky turns amaranth & the morning star peeks through the blinds i watch you sleep/follow the fall and...
- Aug 4
- 1 min
"This One's For Us" by Terri Linn Davis
The first night we met, we lay under your freshly laundered bed sheets, and you showed me your yearbook, named all the strangers for me...
!["We Were Twisted Ladders" & "The Hollows for the [Motherless] Stars" by Leslie Cairns](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/56019e_fe4e75bf2c65405b83e5fe10f370c788~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1080,h_811,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/56019e_fe4e75bf2c65405b83e5fe10f370c788~mv2.png)
- Jul 21
- 3 min
"We Were Twisted Ladders" & "The Hollows for the [Motherless] Stars" by Leslie Cairns
We Were Twisted Ladders DNA Stores memory; I wonder what my body thinks of me. A molecular blueprint– Find me where the veins meet...
- Jul 21
- 1 min
"Little Ghost" by Jess Levens
It’s the morning after—she and I cry on the couch, cuddled, sobbing silently, save for shuddered breaths and hitching sniffles. Your...
- Jul 21
- 1 min
"EXSANGUINATE", "ZODIACAL", & "WHODUNNIT" by Lindsay McLeod
EXSANGUINATE Well Hell, I didn't even know that sacrifice was expected until my sacrifice was made when it sprang monstrous and bikini...
!["monday and then tuesday", "unemployment", "ode to stupid boys" & "[unrelenting]" by Michy Woodward](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/56019e_4673272513114f5d813d1354225fc5e4~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1080,h_811,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/56019e_4673272513114f5d813d1354225fc5e4~mv2.png)
- Jul 21
- 4 min
"monday and then tuesday", "unemployment", "ode to stupid boys" & "[unrelenting]" by Michy Woodward
monday and then tuesday whole milk french style yogurt at noon the departure of moldy raspberries my lawyer is calling, i’m napping, do...
- Jul 21
- 1 min
"Mixed Media with Open Mouths" by Jeffrey Hermann
Cinderella left the ball early and snuck into Sleeping Beauty’s chamber. Leaning over, Cinderella kissed Sleeping Beauty on the mouth. At...
- Jul 21
- 1 min
"underdog", "oh dolores", "were you born in a barn" by J. R. Wilkerson
underdog they say timing is everything, the kids right now they can’t appreciate how we would make fun where there was none we had world...
- Jul 21
- 1 min
"The Single Parents’ Sunday Cycle" by Lucy Goldring
Smile uneasily while being dismayed that they’re all middle-aged Remember, with profound disappointment, that you’re nearly thirty-nine...
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