"Time" by Hannah Therese Drury
In Greece the concept of time is understood qualitatively and quantitatively: kairos, the propitious moment for decision or action...
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"Shelters of Change" & "Stretch" by Ryan Keating
—Shelters of Change— What if the day is a house built in the sky by the sun that means to hold it up forever by beams that collapse with...
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"Collecting Artificial Parts" by Gabby Gilliam
It starts with a mouthful of blood gums swollen and sore platelet count too low for her body to form a clot. They insert a picc line in...
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"Portrait of the Lone Traveller" by Frank Njugi
after Mathew Daniel In this journey the devil wears mascara in the small hours, you pledge allegiance to her who talks with a scintilla...
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"Guilt", "Tyrant" & "Destinations" by S.C Flynn
GUILT Three times today I’ve gone to the window to see what’s happening outside. I know I’m to blame but I hope there might be someone...
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"Night Walking" by Maud Lavin
In Singapore, exiting the subway, alone, After 11 at night, transferring to the bus, waiting in line at the stop, grabbing a seat, next...
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"Tears of Loss" by Andre F. Peltier
“Nous sommes La triste opacité de nos spectres futurs.”1 -Stéphane Mallarmé In autumn, I sit and drink coffee or tea or hot cocoa and...
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"SABLE" & "SAN SABLE" by Muhammed Olowonjoyin
SABLE You step into this city & Everything tells you they know Of dying, of burning. They paint You war-red, paint a wedding dress Black,...
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"Renewal" by Gareth Greer
Across fields of languid wet grass dotted with grazing cattle we walked, a weary band of silent souls. Carefully picking our way across a...
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"Children" by S.F. Wright
My boss, Who’s worked In our district Through nine presidencies, Refers to The students As children. Yesterday, During second period, One...
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"I Think I Could" & "A Former Friend Said" by Anayancy Estacio
I Think I Could She asked, “What could I have done That would have made you stay?” She saw your error and crime and implicated herself in...
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"The One That Never Got Away" by Aishwarya Jha-Mathur
I’m always so much smarter when I talk to you in my head a cinema smile, stars leaping off my tongue like kamikazes we never needed those...
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"Treading Water" by Natalie Nee
I have seen suffering It even has a scent You tip your poison and gulp the numb Words slow, steps falter Pitch changes, eyes flutter Rock...
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"First Nights" by Robin Arble
One night, I got on my hands and knees and crawled back to the night that boy flung his tongue down my throat. All around me, massive...
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"Misandry" & "The Plan" by Shannon Deep
Misandry I’ve known too many men who are only brave about the wrong things and whose swarm of tiny silences over dinner cram their way...
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"the evidence he left"& "Annuals//Annals" by Rebecca N Herz
the evidence he left after he died, I wandered the stacks to find asterisks penciled over seven letter words in the Miriam Webster the...
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"Origami" & "He Leads Us Into The Depths" by Adrian Harte
Origami I only find you in the dark. Groping for a door handle when all is black glass. Just clocks picking locks. Everyone hates us our...
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"Her Last Room" & "blades" by M.R. Mandell
Her Last Room She asked to keep the windows open all night. With greeting cards collapsing under dust, cobwebs blanketing bouquets, Lucy...
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"Someday" & "Seeing White Horn Brook" by Andy Perrin
Someday In one thousand years (if I can wait that long) I shall reemerge as the red-winged blackbird I wrote about clinging to the tall...
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"Poetry Reading (Explanation 1)" & "Hollow Notes" by R. Gerry Fabian
Poetry Reading (Explanation 1) Everyone expects a poem to rhyme at some time or another. My brother blames it on those creatures -...
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