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Mar 5, 20232 min read

"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...

Mar 5, 20231 min read

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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...

Feb 19, 20232 min read

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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...

"the evidence he left"& "Annuals//Annals" by Rebecca N Herz

Feb 19, 20232 min read

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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...

"Origami" & "He Leads Us Into The Depths" by Adrian Harte

Feb 19, 20232 min read

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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...

"Her Last Room" & "blades" by M.R. Mandell

Feb 19, 20232 min read

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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...

"Someday" & "Seeing White Horn Brook" by Andy Perrin

Feb 19, 20231 min read

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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...

Feb 19, 20231 min read

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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 -...

"Running in the Winter silence" by Helen Openshaw

Feb 19, 20231 min read

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"Running in the Winter silence" by Helen Openshaw

Running in the Winter silence, The season holds its breath. The sky, A wrapping paper blue Gifts us a perfect Winter scene. Ice...

"On Contemplating Consciousness", "Missing" & "Such Winter Lies" by Mercedes Lawry

Feb 19, 20231 min read

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"On Contemplating Consciousness", "Missing" & "Such Winter Lies" by Mercedes Lawry

On Contemplating Consciousness Open sky with whittled clouds splintered by rain. A bitter tang loops through ideas of matter that shore...

"a frantic species", "water in the sahel", "at the door, listening"...by Livio Farallo

Feb 19, 20233 min read

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"a frantic species", "water in the sahel", "at the door, listening"...by Livio Farallo

a frantic species she walks so slowly you can see the wicker becoming a basket and then she bends over to pick up a penny but, it’s...

"Ghost Apples", "Rubik's Cube" & "Moon-bow" by Emma Wells

Feb 19, 20233 min read

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"Ghost Apples", "Rubik's Cube" & "Moon-bow" by Emma Wells

Ghost Apples Gothically sublime as Frankenstein’s monster, they hang as fruitful impostors, bending boughs under icy loads: ghostly,...

"Nails and spoons" & "Shutting in, shutting out", & "Le Mer"- Bonnie Meekums, Nolcha Fox

Feb 19, 20233 min read

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"Nails and spoons" & "Shutting in, shutting out", & "Le Mer"- Bonnie Meekums, Nolcha Fox

I’ve looked up at this building many times, from a cardboard city. It might as well be a different planet, made for those whose lives...

"The Sounds & the Hiker" & "Irony. Paradox. [English Media for Thought Pattern]" by Yuan Changming

Feb 5, 20231 min read

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"The Sounds & the Hiker" & "Irony. Paradox. [English Media for Thought Pattern]" by Yuan Changming

The Sounds & the Hiker Down in the valley, you hear a Whole plethora of noises - loudest are Croaking & barking; halfway Uphill, you hear...

"Love is Blind (and Has a Stuffy Nose)" by Nolcha Fox

Feb 5, 20231 min read

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"Love is Blind (and Has a Stuffy Nose)" by Nolcha Fox

She reeked of debt, despair, and a litter box that hadn’t been cleaned for a week. She bulged in all the wrong places. He reeked of...

Feb 5, 20231 min read

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"converge" by Ilana Drake

the way that she looks in both directions as she boards the c train, as she focuses her eyes on the people around her, hoping to see the...

"The eye and the night" by Ivan de Monbrison

Feb 5, 20233 min read

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"The eye and the night" by Ivan de Monbrison

The sky falls to the ground it looks like small pieces of shattered glass a bit like water a bit like a broken lake of water you pick up...

"Christmas Boxes" & "Miracle of the Butterfly" by Fabrice B. Poussin

Feb 5, 20232 min read

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"Christmas Boxes" & "Miracle of the Butterfly" by Fabrice B. Poussin

Christmas Boxes They have been roaming streets and avenues long before honest souls had awakened into another Monday. It was to be a...

Feb 5, 20231 min read

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"The Gunks" by Ivor Daniel

On the Shawangunk Mountains behind the Correctional Facility, I trip on boulders I cannot see in low luxurious slanting sunlight....

Feb 5, 20231 min read

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"Resiliency" by James B. Nicola

e s i A proportioned r after a d i v e re quires a bit of an an gle to get ho me James B. Nicola’s poetry has appeared internationally in...