"At the End" by Gareth Greer
With each straining breath, a part of him is lost, carried from his dying body, infusing in the molecules of the air around us. His face...
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- Aug 20
- 1 min
"Antsy" by Hiram Larew
Worms I’m sure lose patience With rocks with moles with each other And weeds too must get antsy sometimes Because of trowels or other...
- Aug 20
- 3 min
"to wherever crows fly", "nothing worse"…..by Tohm Bakela
to wherever crows fly October ended. November rushed in with warm embrace. The autumn world smelled like spring. Deciduous trees stood...
- Aug 20
- 1 min
"I Still Give Myself Grace", "Buttered Toast Memories", & "Your Wing" by Robert J. W.
I Still Give Myself Grace I pour out another non-alcoholic beverage for the suburbia where I used to force my head to lay. The tear...
- Aug 20
- 1 min
"Streetlights" by Amruta Gaiki
Weary from my travels, I turned the corner into their lane Coming home, back to them Everything a little different, but still just the...
- Aug 20
- 1 min
"A Visit" by David Hay
I took my mum’s hand, malformed, pitiless, In her age that guarantees no renewal. She looks at me, as I bury my face in the Crux of her...
- Aug 20
- 1 min
"My Nemesis" by Sara Cosgrove
My Nemesis is a magnificent dancer. She performs pirouettes to the bar and passes after her first attempt so she can later explain the...
- Aug 6
- 1 min
"This love is like the ghost of Schrödinger’s dead cat" by Syreeta Muir
I’m sure my moans could carry across 4000 miles. More maybe. They go as the crow flies when I think you’re in another woman’s bed. I have...
- Aug 6
- 2 min
"The Summer I Got Diagnosed With Hypertension" & "Lake Verna, Colorado…" by Jenkin Benson
The Summer I Got Diagnosed With Hypertension you will forfeit salt put 2300mg into an envelope the one with your rent check bike 4.33...
- Aug 6
- 3 min
"Frost Bitten", "Burnt Bridges" & "trimming" by Adele Evershed
Frost Bitten (after ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by Robert Frost) I was a teenage atheist Lost to Frost and a world full of...
- Aug 6
- 2 min
"we were" & "lily-pads on the cold water" by Sean Smith
lily-pads on the cold water Paper boats gliding through uncertain eddies - - - Soda bread chewy in all the wrong places Trying not to gag...
- Aug 6
- 1 min
"Home Show Poet" by Jason Melvin
I was at a home show hot tubs and roof vendors baked goods and hot sauce Fancy chamois that suck up all the spills What I didn’t expect...
- Aug 6
- 1 min
"Fontainebleau" by Rachel Bruce
Early on the last day, we drive to find the bottle bank. The morning is thick with sunrise and unspoken language and ladybirds clustered...
- Aug 6
- 1 min
"After-School Routine of an A* Student" by Benjamin Bowers
I start my day by finishing it the sun is creeping down like that spider under my bed and I really need to clean it out but my back aches...
- Aug 6
- 1 min
"cold call" by J. R. Wilkerson
my, my sister calls too early in the week, an early hour unallotted for pleasantries, especially for those a certain age a flinching,...
- Aug 6
- 2 min
"Homemaker", "Sure Call Me a Homemaker", "After the 12th Bedtime Story" & "6 a.m." by Bethany Jarmul
Homemaker Animal aches live in your belly. Susurration of hearts in an oblong vase on the kitchen island. Boil the bear delivered in an...
- Aug 6
- 1 min
"If I could be anything, i’d be the dying star you whisper wishes to before bed".. by Theodore James
If I could be anything, i’d be the dying star you whisper wishes to before bed in my wildest fantasies i am your divinity akin to akemi i...
- Jul 23
- 2 min
"Pedestrian Living", "Missing Person’s Report", "Abilene Rhapsody"… by Augustus C. Grohmann
Pedestrian Living Brown house finch, God’s beauty borne aerial with heart and murmur and beat of wing all enumerate in feathers sweet,...
- Jul 23
- 1 min
"Our Lady Of" by Damon Hubbs
she did not stretch 60 feet tall like that day on the Clearwater building in Florida when the city had to install sidewalks and portable...
- Jul 23
- 1 min
"One Million Years Ago Yesterday" & "Weakness" by Fabrice B. Poussin
One Million Years Ago Yesterday A big girl now she recalls the first dress purchased with money of babies sat perfect for endless summers...
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