poetry 19/38

Feb 5, 20231 min read

"Transhumanist" by Padm Nabh Trivedi

Each Diwali, Amma would light up Small earthen lamps From a big one, And ask us to place at Everywhere we have a connection with: The...

"We Swayed Furtively" & "Monga-mish" by Cid Galicia

Feb 5, 20233 min read

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"We Swayed Furtively" & "Monga-mish" by Cid Galicia

We Swayed Furtively I You were a shadow of rhythm In the arms, song, and body Of another man. So from a distance, I became him In order...

"the sweet spot", "unboxed:", "violent parasomnia", & "not being Kate Bush" by Jane Ayres

Feb 5, 20232 min read

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"the sweet spot", "unboxed:", "violent parasomnia", & "not being Kate Bush" by Jane Ayres

the sweet spot she weeps & creaks into the ooze & creep & scrape & crushing crackle of whenever trim / shape / slice / sculpt to feed ...

"put a laurel wreath around my neck" by Nicholas Barnes

Feb 5, 20232 min read

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"put a laurel wreath around my neck" by Nicholas Barnes

pills got bigger: ten to twenty milligrams. now they’re horsesized. change in dosage prompted by a cry for help. by a secret told to my...

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"To The Snowman" by Tim Moder

Your scuffed, unruly top hat has settled onto an adequately round head. Your body leans left, but not that smile. Small steady hands have...

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"At Lace Mill Pond" by Abigail Myers

I looked out at the half frozen lake. How lovely to be here without you: no stones or pinecones breaking the crust of ice and disturbing...

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"The Garden" by Katy Naylor

We choose our words with care. The garden is still and honeysuckle-sweet again, and the evening shade shadows our faces. We cradle our...

"last year's winterkill" by Jona L. Pedersen

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"last year's winterkill" by Jona L. Pedersen

I am the rough fish that escaped the winterkill. somewhere, at the bottom of the lake the light reached me, trickling through a hole in...

"They Once Met Young Elvis at the Dessau Dance Hall" by Jess Levens

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"They Once Met Young Elvis at the Dessau Dance Hall" by Jess Levens

He asked her out in junior high, and they were inseparable for seventy-one years—he loved her thoughtfully and sincerely. Dementia had...

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"The Confectioner" by Francesca Leader

His last name was Sugar. At least that’s what I thought, until he wrote the characters on a napkin, and showed me, with his grass-fluid...

"The Black Widow" by Courtenay Schembri Gray

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"The Black Widow" by Courtenay Schembri Gray

How is it up there in your rectory of plated gold? Your arms—torn spaghetti strings—reach down to disturb the guts of what you’ve...

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"The Ice Knife" by Jane Zwart

An impractical weapon: it drips, but never gore, and its birchwood hilt will hardly fill a child’s hand. I cannot eat a popsicle, though—...

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"you are cold" by Constance Bacchus

whiteout near waterville on the way to work, on the way home, a tunnel the road has disappeared, the snow ruts have smoothed & cold, you...

Jan 22, 20232 min read

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"Aisle Three" by Karen Grose

I plod down the street to the corner a walker as my guide careful to navigate the cracks on the sidewalk, heat bouncing off the pavement....

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"A New Year" by Alison Lubar

The difference in mourning and morning is you. Dawn takes away anything “our”s, transforms it to “or,” a choice between two, as usual....

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"Spring" by Allison Thung

The flakes of your love keep landing on my bare skin and dissolving before I can collate them. Two clutches I’ve salvaged are already...

Jan 22, 20231 min read

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"January" by Robert Allen

the sun’s a long yellow scarf pull it down to dress warm for the chill

"Most Days, Dystonia is a Background Hum", "Composite Sketch" & "Just a Bird" by Margaret King

Jan 8, 20235 min read

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"Most Days, Dystonia is a Background Hum", "Composite Sketch" & "Just a Bird" by Margaret King

Most Days, Dystonia is a Background Hum Most days, dystonia is a constant background hum, Others, a Beethoven symphony But episodically,...

Jan 8, 20231 min read

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"PUNICA GRANATUM" by G.L. Maverick

only the finest of china for this trauma so i grab the best of my mother’s bowls wash it twice with wine & honey before chipping teeth on...

"We Watched a Dog Die on the Weekend of a Wedding" & "A Waking Thought" by Aaron G. H.

Jan 8, 20232 min read

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"We Watched a Dog Die on the Weekend of a Wedding" & "A Waking Thought" by Aaron G. H.

We Watched a Dog Die on the Weekend of a Wedding We sat -my daughter and I- on a park bench eating a snack. A treat after a long walk; a...