"cicadas" & "babe in the woods" by J. R. Wilkerson
cicadas seventeen years ago beneath the bridge i drift along our names still scrawled below still the cicadas sing their song babe in the...
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Jul 9, 20232 min read
"After all" & "Doing Wall Sits Today" by Boona Daroom
After all After four months of trial after the episode after listening devices are planted after working their way up to the Earth's...
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"I saw a picture of a house falling in on itself" by Beth Mulcahy
when anger elbowed in followed by fear through the door I failed to secure and the shame of another thing I’ve left undone So sleep was...
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"her face soft as fingers creeping on wood" & "celestial syncopation" by Livio Farallo
her face soft as fingers creeping on wood there is the look of something you never know in the clean flow of saliva where telemarketers...
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"A Song of Berea, Kentucky" by David Harrison Horton
The washing machine made noises as it spun its cycles. This added life to the quiet house. Any guitarist with a soft shell case does not...
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"The Distortions Of Great Writers Made Labyrinths For Us" by Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
“...like when you ask a dream to give you more light...” ~David Allen Sullivan Borges put us in time's labyrinths, spoke to us about the...
Jun 25, 20231 min read
"All in the name of research" by Emma Burnett
I told her not to run, that it wouldn’t hurt. It’s just a tooth and, also, it’s for science. I told her we’d put it under the pillow,...
Jun 25, 20232 min read
"River Ripe" & "Iconography: Fashion in the Millenial Imagination" by Jessica Willingham
RIVER RIPE For Linda Hogan, for Ai I swim in a river ripe, a ringlet wheel though It is a bad place after hours. Wild, unpredictable,...
Jun 25, 20233 min read
"Sugar" by Denzel Joyson A J.
CW: Sexual relationship between adult and minor I. Two nights ago, I dreamt of hot cocoa. The kind that’s a little too sweet because it’s...
Jun 25, 20231 min read
"Bombscare" by Gareth Greer
CW Violence Heavy boots on the stairs and a stranger’s voice, then hearing my Mummy say ‘Harry, wake the boys’. Blinking from our sleep...
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"Pickle Tub", "Moussaka" & "Sea-Witch: Coney Island" by Chiara Di Lello
Pickle Tub I’ve got a heart like a pickle tub you can turn it over and drum on it for change it’s full of living things, it’s good for...
Jun 25, 20231 min read
"Life Jacket" by John Dorroh
Your father passed into thin air two years ago today, left you treading in salt water and frost. It was before the fuses detonated on...
Jun 11, 20231 min read
"Loss Regained" by Deron Eckert
This is not like the other times, of initial refusal, eventual acceptance, inevitable treatment. Unlike the times of womb, throat, and...
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"wraparound" & "mothering" by Zoe Gianfrancesco
wraparound maybe it’s in the breath of It, how even menthol-wrapped, He can put life to it with a well-placed sigh, our arc a paper-thin...
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"Manic Depression (A Boy Can Dream)" by Lachie Kairo
So then, you take a toothpick, some tweezers of course you don’t want to clean your teeth, you just want to tear yourself apart. Building...
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"Methuselah Remembered" by Simon Leonard
In your kitchen it will always be late summer, Bessie Smith churning through the blues, some piano fluttering to keep up. A CD whirs...
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"Necromancer in Anthropocene" by Terry Trowbridge
Tired of technocracy clear-cutting the valleys, a mountainside necromancer brings home the teeth from several steam shovel buckets,...
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"In Philadelphia, My Love" & "An Ode to Sin" by Pierce Leon Vencer
In Philadelphia, My Love We turned the streets of Philadelphia into fighting arenas when we’d drag our issues from jazz bars and take...
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"when we lived on the moon" by Sally Armstrong
when we lived on the moon we danced to techno wearing spacesuits caught space rocks in tiny glass jars we laughed loudly in a dark sky...
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"Be Nice To Your Cremation Technician" by Ly Faulk
Bathe your body with excellent fatty foods so that you burn more quickly. Go soft in the joints and hard places. Your cremation...
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