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"How the Girl Became a Poet" by Mathieu Cailler
  • 2 days ago
  • 1 min
poetry

"How the Girl Became a Poet" by Mathieu Cailler

For Lyuba Yakimchuk In a vast bomb shelter, hundreds of citizens cup candles. The soft light gives a warm hue to the coldness, and the...
"Untitled" by Brianne Reilly
  • 2 days ago
  • 1 min
poetry

"Untitled" by Brianne Reilly

silver tongued words fall from my lips as the clock strikes midnight suspend me take me to new heights make me cum my Sunday dress hangs...
"In Shared Movement, the Clocks Stop", "The Knowledge of Loss"...by Oisín Breen
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min
poetry

"In Shared Movement, the Clocks Stop", "The Knowledge of Loss"...by Oisín Breen

In Shared Movement, the Clocks Stop Through me exists a succulent kaleidoscopy, Warmth through me and over me and in me, Moments...
"Driving Home", "Everblue, & "Island Saga" by Thomas Zimmerman
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min
poetry

"Driving Home", "Everblue, & "Island Saga" by Thomas Zimmerman

Driving Home a Coltrane solo’s loping from the stereo. The GPS keeps chiding, “Route recalculating.” The music fills my head and chest. I...
"Ljubljana", "Small Window", "Benchmark"...by Frederick Pollack
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min
poetry

"Ljubljana", "Small Window", "Benchmark"...by Frederick Pollack

Ljubljana “I knew he was in love with me,” she said, “but my new, wealthy husband, then one by one the children, those who lived and...
"4 Poems" by Mark Jackley
  • 2 days ago
  • 1 min
poetry

"4 Poems" by Mark Jackley

POEM ON THE PAGE catch me, save me from the page. STANDARD OBIT fun size of this side MY EASTER ISLAND The hay bales will return. The...
"It doesn't need to be easy to love you" & "maxilla" by Sam Moe
  • 2 days ago
  • 3 min
poetry

"It doesn't need to be easy to love you" & "maxilla" by Sam Moe

It doesn’t need to be easy to love you I want to come into your grief house and sit beside you. We don’t need to open the windows, we can...
"Clematis Vines" & "Beauty-Seeker" by Alina Hanusiak
  • 2 days ago
  • 1 min
poetry

"Clematis Vines" & "Beauty-Seeker" by Alina Hanusiak

CLEMATIS VINES for Agata I. Like entwined vines of clematis pink —with invisible beginning and no visible end— we create a...
"Currying Forms", "On the Hacking of His Facebook Account"...by Ben Nardolilli
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min
poetry

"Currying Forms", "On the Hacking of His Facebook Account"...by Ben Nardolilli

Currying Forms See all this? I use this as an excuse to avoid cooking, learning about it, shopping for ingredients, setting down recipes,...
"Small Daughter" by Peter Mladinic
  • 2 days ago
  • 1 min
poetry

"Small Daughter" by Peter Mladinic

I don’t remember begging my father for a leather whip, but he bought my brother and me leather whips in upstate New York the summer we...
"hello sister, hello sun" by Freedom Strange
  • Jun 12
  • 1 min
poetry

"hello sister, hello sun" by Freedom Strange

an approximation of sunlight on my red/gold curls the sidewalk cracks and the flowers that push through. i've always envied your...
"never/more" & "indigestible" by Jane Ayres
  • Jun 12
  • 1 min
poetry

"never/more" & "indigestible" by Jane Ayres

never/more fossilised (in) merciless stitches sugar-coated (gift wrapped) making your move (not without risk) hoarding moments that...
 “Doomsday Turnstile” & “I Carry a Shovel” by M. E. Silverman
  • Jun 12
  • 1 min
poetry

“Doomsday Turnstile” & “I Carry a Shovel” by M. E. Silverman

Doomsday Turnstile The turnstile cranks. With every turn, another person slides toward doomsday. A camera clicks. A picture captures the...
"Full Stop World" by Lawrence Moore
  • Jun 12
  • 1 min
poetry

"Full Stop World" by Lawrence Moore

You canter on for years and years with abstract hopes, with shallow fears, complacency to hold your hand, ellipsis, comma, ampersand. One...
"Circulaire" by Bex Hainsworth
  • Jun 12
  • 1 min
poetry

"Circulaire" by Bex Hainsworth

La Rochelle, France It’s been ten years since I sat in the dust by the side of a dirt road, dry grass prickling my legs. Lonely girl,...
"Queen of Wrath" by Russell Hehn
  • Jun 12
  • 1 min
creative nonfiction

"Queen of Wrath" by Russell Hehn

My 27-year-old mother is forever blasting down the bubbling asphalt of late-summer Mississippi in a sky-blue 1978 Mercury Cougar—so wide...
"Concrète Dasein", "Syllabic Idyllic", "Revenge of Venus"...by Rose Knapp
  • Jun 12
  • 1 min
poetry

"Concrète Dasein", "Syllabic Idyllic", "Revenge of Venus"...by Rose Knapp

Concrète Dasein What if Dasein encompassed the theoretical And the concrete? What if Dasein is A type of alien music? What if Dasein was...
“Moonlight in Paradise", “Betrayal", “The Countess"...by Eric Burgoyne
  • Jun 12
  • 2 min
poetry

“Moonlight in Paradise", “Betrayal", “The Countess"...by Eric Burgoyne

Moonlight in Paradise A vacant lifeguard tower twelve feet over damp sand guards long since gone moonlit clouds softly shifting sitting...
"the wedding feast at east haven" by w v sutra
  • Jun 12
  • 2 min
poetry

"the wedding feast at east haven" by w v sutra

it was in the elks lodge at east haven Connecticut that the wedding guest saw his failure clear its bitter taste mingling with weak...
"Drunken Jazzy Night" by Daniel Groves
  • Jun 12
  • 2 min
poetry

"Drunken Jazzy Night" by Daniel Groves

The piano sits resolute, awaiting its Shirley As cigar smoke and alcohol aroma fills the air. The jazz band preps; the bass, the...
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