poetry 13/38

Jul 23, 20232 min read

"I’ve only ever lived in suburbs" by Holly Pelesky

With striped lawns and fences and barking dogs and lost cat posters on lampposts. I’ve spent weekends pulling weeds and evenings walking,...

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"How Close His Mouth" by Emily White

Twenty-two minutes of music. I put the phone to one side and open the laptop. I'm in bed, a place for handling numbers. Patience slips...

"Dear Sarah" & "Years of Plenty" by Andrew Senior

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"Dear Sarah" & "Years of Plenty" by Andrew Senior

Dear Sarah Imagine a world where you would have been safe, where these lines do not exist. Standing on my Poynders Road, with a lump in...

"drives without a destination" by Ilana Drake

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"drives without a destination" by Ilana Drake

you & i would sing taylor swift songs in your jeep as we cruised along the tennessee highways, you would sing the lyrics with the...

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"asterism" by Savhanha Small Nguyen

We were waiting for a star to fall - constellations predicting futures, a future possibly one shared together perhaps another lived alone...

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"Shepherd Girl" by Tiffany Troy

In a perfect world, I can hand in my resignation letter and call it quits. In this world, I squeeze my breasts for milk before collapsing...

Jul 23, 20231 min read

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"Ponderosa" by Madeleine French

CW: Suicide I don’t mean the ranch, with Little Joe and Hoss, and their calico-caricature women —pointy breasts, big hair— No, this was a...

Tan-Renga by Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam

Jul 9, 20231 min read

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Tan-Renga by Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam

a crumbled yellowed note maybe love — a written sentence faraway stare no epitaph on a tiny tombstone death note — stepping on...

"cicadas" & "babe in the woods" by J. R. Wilkerson

Jul 9, 20231 min read

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"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...

"After all" & "Doing Wall Sits Today" by Boona Daroom

Jul 9, 20232 min read

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"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...

"I saw a picture of a house falling in on itself" by Beth Mulcahy

Jul 9, 20231 min read

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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...

"her face soft as fingers creeping on wood" & "celestial syncopation" by Livio Farallo

Jul 9, 20232 min read

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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...

"A Song of Berea, Kentucky" by David Harrison Horton

Jul 9, 20231 min read

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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...

"The Distortions Of Great Writers Made Labyrinths For Us" by Ignatius Valentine Aloysius

Jul 9, 20232 min read

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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...

"All in the name of research" by Emma Burnett

Jun 25, 20231 min read

humor

"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,...

"River Ripe" & "Iconography: Fashion in the Millenial Imagination" by Jessica Willingham

Jun 25, 20232 min read

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"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

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"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

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"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...

"Pickle Tub", "Moussaka" & "Sea-Witch: Coney Island" by Chiara Di Lello

Jun 25, 20234 min read

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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

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"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...