poetry 20/38

Jan 8, 20231 min read

"Trick Grammar" by Alison Heron Hruby

after the song “Pink Venom” by BLACKPINK Thick edge of paradox no other appeal to sex quite as persuasive: four women sing syllepsis,...

Jan 8, 20232 min read

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"the rose colored villa" by w v sutra

all green was the name in the house where they lived rose colored it was and full of anxiety hamlet and papa hamlet fell out because...

Jan 8, 20231 min read

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"Threnody" by Romain P.-A. Delpeuch

Then, slumber wrapped my brain in fog. The sun, in hiding, shrouded black, escaped my reach. Atop secluded heights it shone for others,...

"brain games" & "december" by Samantha Rowling

Jan 8, 20232 min read

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"brain games" & "december" by Samantha Rowling

brain games With a tiny little hammer And a tiny little chisel I am going to straddle you (The way you like) And crack open your skull...

"The Truth About Lairs" by Jonathan Petley

Jan 8, 20231 min read

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"The Truth About Lairs" by Jonathan Petley

I’d dupe them all with my clever green disguise, A mere man, mingling among brooding beasts. No—it was worse. For the bar was cursed, A...

"Awakening," "Valentine," "Anniversary," & "Throne" by Siân Killingsworth

Dec 26, 20223 min read

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"Awakening," "Valentine," "Anniversary," & "Throne" by Siân Killingsworth

Awakening the bed shifts as we turn pastel sheets draped trailing to the floor like statuary a show of modesty overthrown the sun dazzles...

"Before," "Amnesty," & "Brittney Griner Is Waiting To Be Free" by Joshua Merchant

Dec 26, 20223 min read

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"Before," "Amnesty," & "Brittney Griner Is Waiting To Be Free" by Joshua Merchant

Before when my mother is pregnant with my father’s first wish and second blessing, he doesn’t know how long the cab ride she called for...

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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“Switching Gears” by Karen Grose

my brother is off to school, backpack over a shoulder eyes glued to the phone in hand white buds dangling from his ears. he doesn’t turn...

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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"Moving day" by Simon Leonard

Cardboard boxes stacked high as the kitchen window, their open wings only fit for the kid to fly past the original lino floor, back when...

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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"Recipe" by Michael Pollentine

Something my wife Pointed Out Last night: More of my friends Are dead Than alive. It is common Stains Decrease Yet I am only 41. More of...

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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“circles” & “in Oz” by George Taxon

circles edging out the spaces the circles are going nowhere a pixel paces it- self unable to walk a straight line I think I’d run circles...

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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"White Lilies" by Anne Whitehouse

The heavy fragrance of the white Casablanca Lily mingling with the white Baferrari Lily blooming in the ninety-degree heat of my July...

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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"Snapdragons" by Grant Young

Snapdragons are killer curveballs a violent wrist twist to reap a white terror, red stitching slicing sky, bending air, bursting ash a...

"Being a better kind of ghost," "The Promise of rain," & "Opening night" by Gavin Turner

Dec 26, 20222 min read

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"Being a better kind of ghost," "The Promise of rain," & "Opening night" by Gavin Turner

Being a better kind of ghost Due to the high levels of domestic accident these days, There’s a chance that I might be a newly formed...

“Hibernation Comfort" & “Fields Where We Belong” by Kushal Poddar

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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“Hibernation Comfort" & “Fields Where We Belong” by Kushal Poddar

Hibernation Comfort No one possesses this road this early. The juxtaposition of ebony tar and light, and the uneven patches where monsoon...

"The eleventh month" & "Reserve" by Dave Nash

Dec 26, 20222 min read

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"The eleventh month" & "Reserve" by Dave Nash

The eleventh month After the all the casting and the punditry We return to our yards: manicured and plain, Ignore the stray wrappers...

"Lurk & other undead darlings" by Jess Levens

Dec 26, 20221 min read

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"Lurk & other undead darlings" by Jess Levens

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"Phantom Pain", "Scrooge McDuck", & "Friendshipstein" by Kyle Solomon

Dec 11, 20222 min read

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"Phantom Pain", "Scrooge McDuck", & "Friendshipstein" by Kyle Solomon

Phantom Pain The little things like sitting on Zelda's Title Screen. That sad piano title theme. Pop Art, Pop-tart, spring out the...

"Curious Natures Of Alien Girls" by Kristin Garth

Dec 11, 20221 min read

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"Curious Natures Of Alien Girls" by Kristin Garth

I am the ghost though they say you are dead. A brain composed of stardust won’t rot. Those bones stacked underground I pled for you to...

“A Fine Zenith", The Other Side", My Muse Calls at 3 AM"...by Emily Moon

Dec 11, 20222 min read

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“A Fine Zenith", The Other Side", My Muse Calls at 3 AM"...by Emily Moon

A Fine Zenith A stone in my chest radiates the blue color of new fallen snow under the full moon. It rises from my gut through my...