poetry 2/38

Sep 242 min read

"Won't Let You Come To Nothing" by georgë kear

I am particles. Mist. Smack. Ice flakes. Grit. Ash. Floating fur. Loose and moving you can put your hands Through me Snag on hard places...

Sep 241 min read

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"b-side" by Valeria Turp-Balazs

crashed into the foreign door of a person i’ve met and i don’t know at all watched your hand around a mug and counted times you kept it...

"Time", "Excitement Equals", & "The Find" by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon

Sep 242 min read

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"Time", "Excitement Equals", & "The Find" by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon

Time Time loops like scalloped embroidery; rises, billows, then rejoins its stem – like on the head of a blooming flower, each petal is...

"Time is a Yellowing Thing" by Eric Subpar

Sep 241 min read

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"Time is a Yellowing Thing" by Eric Subpar

Time is a white but yellowing thing. I’ve got an ibuprofen bottle packed with psilocybin And a mind packed to the brim with thoughts I...

"I Waited for An Ice Age", "Concerning Thursday", "Between his legs" & "Meat Raffle" by Ewen Glass

Sep 31 min read

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"I Waited for An Ice Age", "Concerning Thursday", "Between his legs" & "Meat Raffle" by Ewen Glass

I Waited For An Ice Age I was told it would come; as I closed my book amid strawberry vapours ready to leave two came at once yes to be...

"Everything that’s influenced my work/me (After Rosemary Mayer)" by Tara Giancaspro

Sep 33 min read

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"Everything that’s influenced my work/me (After Rosemary Mayer)" by Tara Giancaspro

Leopard print Grease My small cat daughter, Simone Leather Sugar My large cat son, Lugosi The Tom of Finland men who live in my sinew and...

Sep 31 min read

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"Defeated Bulbs" by Andrew Buckner

eternity beacons a motorcycle cracks the crowd finds silence the dark lamp sears white through dark days, bright nights whispering...

Aug 181 min read

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"Ever the Twain" by James B. Nicola

Mark Twain on growing old: Beats not. James B. Nicola is a returning contributor to RF. The latest three of his eight full-length...

"Sonnet for a Real Slag","Classy Birds", "Eating In", "Subchorionic Hematoma" & "After Swimming" by Katie Beswick

Aug 183 min read

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"Sonnet for a Real Slag","Classy Birds", "Eating In", "Subchorionic Hematoma" & "After Swimming" by Katie Beswick

Sonnet for a Real Slag One day, she’s gonna be obese, that slag. Salt and vinegar McCoy’s for breakfast — pulls at your bedsheets like...

"Found", "Nothing" & "All Things" by Allison Thung

Aug 182 min read

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"Found", "Nothing" & "All Things" by Allison Thung

Found I Unmoored by spectacles, my features float like boats adrift in the vast ocean of my face. From land—claims that shadow...

"Shadow Boxers" & "In the Leaving" by James Lilliefors

Aug 182 min read

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"Shadow Boxers" & "In the Leaving" by James Lilliefors

Shadow Boxers Here again, that strange time of day when certain shadows of the past meet less-than-certain shadows of the...

Aug 41 min read

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"My Side of The Bed" by Tim Moder

I feel your fingers work my hair like a jar of butterflies. You’re laying sideways on my pillow and you worry I won’t feel you. Just your...

"The Irony in Feeling Small and Seeing a Shrink" by Nicholas Grooms

Aug 42 min read

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"The Irony in Feeling Small and Seeing a Shrink" by Nicholas Grooms

Tried and true fashions never seem to be in not on catwalks or clothed mannequins a juice cleanse and diet pill racket spamming your...

"Reincarnation", "We Don't Always Choose who We Love", "The Passing of the Night", "Copperhead", & "It's Hard to Do Right by Everyone" by Steve Passey

Aug 42 min read

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"Reincarnation", "We Don't Always Choose who We Love", "The Passing of the Night", "Copperhead", & "It's Hard to Do Right by Everyone" by Steve Passey

Reincarnation There is, in a small city in Michigan, an old man sitting in an old chair in his living room. He is pleased with his bowel...

"High Desert", "Love Poem on a Glacier", & "Fifth Water" by Melissa Jean

Aug 42 min read

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"High Desert", "Love Poem on a Glacier", & "Fifth Water" by Melissa Jean

HIGH DESERT Dusk, and the moon is three-quarters full and bright as a harpsichord note in the sky. And lightning flashes on both horizons...

"supermoon aubade", "unraveling" & "eucalyptus" by Elle Cantwell

Aug 42 min read

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"supermoon aubade", "unraveling" & "eucalyptus" by Elle Cantwell

supermoon aubade before the iron sky turns amaranth & the morning star peeks through the blinds i watch you sleep/follow the fall and...

Aug 41 min read

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"This One's For Us" by Terri Linn Davis

The first night we met, we lay under your freshly laundered bed sheets, and you showed me your yearbook, named all the strangers for me...

"We Were Twisted Ladders" & "The Hollows for the [Motherless] Stars" by Leslie Cairns

Jul 213 min read

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"We Were Twisted Ladders" & "The Hollows for the [Motherless] Stars" by Leslie Cairns

We Were Twisted Ladders DNA Stores memory; I wonder what my body thinks of me. A molecular blueprint– Find me where the veins meet...

Jul 211 min read

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"Little Ghost" by Jess Levens

It’s the morning after—she and I cry on the couch, cuddled, sobbing silently, save for shuddered breaths and hitching sniffles. Your...

"EXSANGUINATE", "ZODIACAL", & "WHODUNNIT" by Lindsay McLeod

Jul 211 min read

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"EXSANGUINATE", "ZODIACAL", & "WHODUNNIT" by Lindsay McLeod

EXSANGUINATE Well Hell, I didn't even know that sacrifice was expected until my sacrifice was made when it sprang monstrous and bikini...