poetry 21/38

Dec 11, 20221 min read

“Stubb recounts the killing of a whale, to his shrink.” by Ivor Daniel

The red tide poured from every side. I call my shrink and ask - 'when are you free?' A tormented body rolled in blood and brine. There...

"House of Spirits" & "Midnight Sun" by David Estringel

Dec 11, 20221 min read

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"House of Spirits" & "Midnight Sun" by David Estringel

House of Spirits There’s a rap, rap, rapping on my bedroom door. The rocking chair creaks. The ceiling fan light, overhead, winks in...

"TONIGHT I CAN'T SLEEP", "PALACE SONNET", "ARISE, HER EYES" by Rodney Wood

Dec 11, 20222 min read

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"TONIGHT I CAN'T SLEEP", "PALACE SONNET", "ARISE, HER EYES" by Rodney Wood

TONIGHT I CAN’T SLEEP because all the people I know are machines and their lives have been extracted put in a glass jar on a shelf miles...

"Hostile Architecture" & "The Worms" by Robert Beveridge

Dec 11, 20222 min read

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"Hostile Architecture" & "The Worms" by Robert Beveridge

Hostile Architecture We huddle closer to the space heater, close enough that the sparks will singe our blankets. “It’s a cult,” you say....

Dec 11, 20221 min read

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"Modern Times" by Wendy Taylor Carlisle

i. the name is a little thing someone else thinks of as a big thing but there you go collapsing their abomination to make it fit into...

“about that blood” & “here comes” by Kyla Houbolt

Nov 27, 20221 min read

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“about that blood” & “here comes” by Kyla Houbolt

about that blood but it does not make me think, it only repeats cleverly all the things. felt slippers. ugly but warm. so much of value...

"Pearl Mussel", "Untitled" & "GOD HATES —" (A sonnet) by Hesse Phillips

Nov 27, 20221 min read

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"Pearl Mussel", "Untitled" & "GOD HATES —" (A sonnet) by Hesse Phillips

Pearl Mussel Do not tell me to heal. I want no poems that call the wild geese home, or command me, behold the winter sunset, or, consider...

"Awake" & "The One Who Never Leaves" by Brian Christopher Giddens

Nov 27, 20221 min read

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"Awake" & "The One Who Never Leaves" by Brian Christopher Giddens

Awake Raindrops hurl to the pavement, pooling, streaming, Seeking inlets in which to rest. I lie in bed hearing the swoosh of tires as...

"Genome for Commercial Taste" by Christopher Collingwood

Nov 27, 20221 min read

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"Genome for Commercial Taste" by Christopher Collingwood

My dreams were served with Cabernet – seduction by commercial taste, peeling vanity off the apple’s core, taking away unwanted skin,...

"Wandering Still", "A Summer Road", "The Tower"...by Frances Koziar

Nov 27, 20222 min read

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"Wandering Still", "A Summer Road", "The Tower"...by Frances Koziar

Wandering Still The waves roll against an empty shore, each one strong and steady and painful, the sand grating like life across my skin....

Nov 27, 20221 min read

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"One-Legged man" by Ken Tomaro

it’s just a different sunrise in the fall the sun is bright but muted the clouds are dense and low and I am thinking about the future...

Nov 27, 20221 min read

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"glib boy-king" by Kyle Denner

Kyle Denner is from Tucson, AZ. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Collar Review, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, and Manastash.

“at once, I feel it all suspending” by Mikayla Elias

Nov 13, 20221 min read

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“at once, I feel it all suspending” by Mikayla Elias

at once, I feel it all suspending permanent arteries the weight of helplessness captured in foreign memories not unlike a dream come back...

Nov 13, 20221 min read

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"Have Mercy" by Gabriel Hart

We prefer to receive when we only encounter a pair of wide eyes an invitation on fire to smother a Gate beckoning with a glare off the...

"Journey through Dead Woman Hollow" by Taylor Mallay

Nov 13, 20222 min read

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"Journey through Dead Woman Hollow" by Taylor Mallay

Dead Woman Hollow is a hiking trail in Pennsylvania. In 1988, a woman named Rebecca Wight was murdered there. The morning of the 4th, I...

"you can stop visiting my dreams now" by Ọpéyemí Ọlájùwọ́n

Nov 13, 20221 min read

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"you can stop visiting my dreams now" by Ọpéyemí Ọlájùwọ́n

you can stop visiting my dreams now for Corinth, when I look into spaces to fill up a void that is more vacant than a bullet fleshed into...

Nov 13, 20221 min read

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"the hope" by Ilana Drake

when the plane landed & i walked through the airport, i felt the way i do when i enter the apartment & my parents crowd me with hugs:...

Nov 13, 20221 min read

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"Bird Watching" by Indranil Ghosh

I ran into a kiwi bird while hiking up the sledge track, early morning. It had news from my dad. He says he has made friends with Chester...

"Brevity" & "Self-portrait as a Dead Gray Squirrel" by Jess Levens

Nov 13, 20221 min read

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"Brevity" & "Self-portrait as a Dead Gray Squirrel" by Jess Levens

Brevity Capsized pyramid, shake the details down. Distilled to facts and nothing more, briefly smudged across the page; dissect in parts...

Nov 13, 20221 min read

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"Swell" by Michael Chin

That summer we took your father’s boat Off the coast for sunsets we smoked and called it seaweed. We locked toes, gritty with sand and...