poetry 12/38

Aug 20, 20233 min read

"to wherever crows fly", "nothing worse"…..by Tohm Bakela

to wherever crows fly October ended. November rushed in with warm embrace. The autumn world smelled like spring. Deciduous trees stood...

"I Still Give Myself Grace", "Buttered Toast Memories", & "Your Wing" by Robert J. W.

Aug 20, 20231 min read

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"I Still Give Myself Grace", "Buttered Toast Memories", & "Your Wing" by Robert J. W.

I Still Give Myself Grace I pour out another non-alcoholic beverage for the suburbia where I used to force my head to lay. The tear...

Aug 20, 20231 min read

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"Streetlights" by Amruta Gaiki

Weary from my travels, I turned the corner into their lane Coming home, back to them Everything a little different, but still just the...

Aug 20, 20231 min read

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"A Visit" by David Hay

I took my mum’s hand, malformed, pitiless, In her age that guarantees no renewal. She looks at me, as I bury my face in the Crux of her...

Aug 20, 20231 min read

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"My Nemesis" by Sara Cosgrove

My Nemesis is a magnificent dancer. She performs pirouettes to the bar and passes after her first attempt so she can later explain the...

"This love is like the ghost of Schrödinger’s dead cat" by Syreeta Muir

Aug 6, 20231 min read

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"This love is like the ghost of Schrödinger’s dead cat" by Syreeta Muir

I’m sure my moans could carry across 4000 miles. More maybe. They go as the crow flies when I think you’re in another woman’s bed. I have...

"The Summer I Got Diagnosed With Hypertension" & "Lake Verna, Colorado…" by Jenkin Benson

Aug 6, 20232 min read

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"The Summer I Got Diagnosed With Hypertension" & "Lake Verna, Colorado…" by Jenkin Benson

The Summer I Got Diagnosed With Hypertension you will forfeit salt put 2300mg into an envelope the one with your rent check bike 4.33...

"Frost Bitten", "Burnt Bridges" & "trimming" by Adele Evershed

Aug 6, 20233 min read

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"Frost Bitten", "Burnt Bridges" & "trimming" by Adele Evershed

Frost Bitten (after ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by Robert Frost) I was a teenage atheist Lost to Frost and a world full of...

"we were" & "lily-pads on the cold water" by Sean Smith

Aug 6, 20232 min read

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"we were" & "lily-pads on the cold water" by Sean Smith

lily-pads on the cold water Paper boats gliding through uncertain eddies - - - Soda bread chewy in all the wrong places Trying not to gag...

Aug 6, 20231 min read

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"Home Show Poet" by Jason Melvin

I was at a home show hot tubs and roof vendors baked goods and hot sauce Fancy chamois that suck up all the spills What I didn’t expect...

Aug 6, 20231 min read

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"Fontainebleau" by Rachel Bruce

Early on the last day, we drive to find the bottle bank. The morning is thick with sunrise and unspoken language and ladybirds clustered...

"After-School Routine of an A* Student" by Benjamin Bowers

Aug 6, 20231 min read

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"After-School Routine of an A* Student" by Benjamin Bowers

I start my day by finishing it the sun is creeping down like that spider under my bed and I really need to clean it out but my back aches...

Aug 6, 20231 min read

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"cold call" by J. R. Wilkerson

my, my sister calls too early in the week, an early hour unallotted for pleasantries, especially for those a certain age a flinching,...

"Homemaker", "Sure Call Me a Homemaker", "After the 12th Bedtime Story" & "6 a.m." by Bethany Jarmul

Aug 6, 20232 min read

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"Homemaker", "Sure Call Me a Homemaker", "After the 12th Bedtime Story" & "6 a.m." by Bethany Jarmul

Homemaker Animal aches live in your belly. Susurration of hearts in an oblong vase on the kitchen island. Boil the bear delivered in an...

"If I could be anything, i’d be the dying star you whisper wishes to before bed".. by Theodore James

Aug 6, 20231 min read

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"If I could be anything, i’d be the dying star you whisper wishes to before bed".. by Theodore James

If I could be anything, i’d be the dying star you whisper wishes to before bed in my wildest fantasies i am your divinity akin to akemi i...

"Pedestrian Living", "Missing Person’s Report", "Abilene Rhapsody"… by Augustus C. Grohmann

Jul 23, 20232 min read

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"Pedestrian Living", "Missing Person’s Report", "Abilene Rhapsody"… by Augustus C. Grohmann

Pedestrian Living Brown house finch, God’s beauty borne aerial with heart and murmur and beat of wing all enumerate in feathers sweet,...

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"Our Lady Of" by Damon Hubbs

she did not stretch 60 feet tall like that day on the Clearwater building in Florida when the city had to install sidewalks and portable...

"One Million Years Ago Yesterday" & "Weakness" by Fabrice B. Poussin

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"One Million Years Ago Yesterday" & "Weakness" by Fabrice B. Poussin

One Million Years Ago Yesterday A big girl now she recalls the first dress purchased with money of babies sat perfect for endless summers...

Jul 23, 20234 min read

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"Confession" by Dave Duggins

Start the tape. and Richard says: Okay, dena. Are you ready to talk? Do you want to answer some questions? dena says: Umm. Stares...

"The Dry Spell" & "Halo- rainbow around my sins (To Robert Frede Kenter)" by Kushal Poddar

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"The Dry Spell" & "Halo- rainbow around my sins (To Robert Frede Kenter)" by Kushal Poddar

The Dry Spell It hasn't been raining since it had. I sound vague? You haven't stared at the spearhead of a midday road. You haven't tried...