poetry 22/38

Nov 13, 20222 min read

"Doll Country" & "Frogspawn" by Damon Hubbs

Doll Country In doll country we are building a miniature replica of our home, a nutshell study of rooms and hallways forensically scaled...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"Jungle Life" by Elizabeth Schmermund

Outside we watch tender lime leaves unfurl, new life. A small hand reaches for the copper-threaded can, pours cold water right from the...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"Washing Day" by Gavin Turner

After, thoughts, The sweating swoosh of infatuation, The gripping, ripping, ride Rolling cotton tides beneath us, Its depth unknowing We...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"Tonight" by Jason Melvin

CW: blood Tonight, she rips the skin off the top of her hand exposing each phalange She achieves this through addition not subtraction A...

"A Thousand Iterations of Yellow" by Karen Grose

Oct 30, 20222 min read

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"A Thousand Iterations of Yellow" by Karen Grose

Do you see me? Alone, I am resolute Towering sunflowers, Gran’s churned butter dripping from cobs of field-picked corn, Post-it notes and...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"The Gardeners" by L.M. Cole

A mother’s hands are black from planting bulbs in the crumbling soil of autumn. A bulb is a promise of tomorrow. Mothers do the planting...

"On the Heaviness of Summer Evenings" by Catheryne Gagnon

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"On the Heaviness of Summer Evenings" by Catheryne Gagnon

Some days when my body feels heavy, I leave my heart, dripping on the countertop and walk out into honeyed light, cicada song still thick...

"5am, 179", "geode", & "the bell tolls (fidelity)" by Brianna Cunliffe

Oct 30, 20222 min read

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"5am, 179", "geode", & "the bell tolls (fidelity)" by Brianna Cunliffe

5 am, I79 wreck. talk radio. hope-wrangled holidays in scotch-tape and latex gloves, sailing incubators we ride these ill winds...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"Decennial" by Kelsey Lister

Decennial The superstitions I practiced kept me safe. All of the pennies and grains of salt thrown. Every wishbone that broke in my favor...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"Carnival" by Nolcha Fox

The magic mirrors distort her mind as she follows the words in her head to the merry-go- round where horses race silently to nowhere in...

"Accubitus (noun)" & "Vampire Express" by Candice Kelsey

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"Accubitus (noun)" & "Vampire Express" by Candice Kelsey

Accubitus (noun) is the state of lying next to another in bed without touching / according to an 1817 medical dictionary / the word...

"Only Pink Satin Sheets Are Ineffable" & "The Earth and Our Dark Love" by Victoria Leigh Bennett

Oct 30, 20222 min read

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"Only Pink Satin Sheets Are Ineffable" & "The Earth and Our Dark Love" by Victoria Leigh Bennett

Only Pink Satin Sheets Are Ineffable Only pink satin sheets are ineffable And not hot pink, either, And not pale petal pink, But some...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"The Motion of Pictures" by Chinaza

Let’s talk about blurred pictures Steaming cups of coffee now mud foggy Brown and white dots brushed into one Let’s talk about the...

Oct 30, 20221 min read

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"A Tale of Granada" by Becky May

She'll catch a glimpse of herself in the glass, realise she's beautiful but know too that in her shadow a ragamuffin stray slinks down...

"Daughters of" & "And sometimes, you are home." by Rebecca Romani

Oct 30, 20222 min read

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"Daughters of" & "And sometimes, you are home." by Rebecca Romani

Daughters of We are the daughters Of sons of fathers from another land. We are the daughters of babbas who see in us the shadows of their...

“The Violence of Sound” “Seduction” & “ Soundtrack” by Susan Richardson

Oct 30, 20222 min read

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“The Violence of Sound” “Seduction” & “ Soundtrack” by Susan Richardson

The Violence of Sound Parcels of darkness take to the sky, storm warnings that strip skin from bones, swallowing the blood of entire...

“Beneath the Darkness” & “His Last Return” by Lawrence Moore

Oct 20, 20221 min read

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“Beneath the Darkness” & “His Last Return” by Lawrence Moore

Beneath the Darkness She walks the tree-lined evening way, scattering spectres of the past subordinated to her command. The animals...

"The Period from November Until January", "On Beginning to Feel It" &...by Brendan Constantine

Oct 20, 20222 min read

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"The Period from November Until January", "On Beginning to Feel It" &...by Brendan Constantine

The period from November until January poem for Maria Berry is deer season. which means. it’s time. to dress up. as buildings and hide...

Oct 20, 20222 min read

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“the jayhawk plateau” by w v sutra

the deadly mixture of green and black bile swamped the poor ailing liver in dark humours doing the damage bringing fear and death it was...

"Juncture", "Inheritance", & "Airplane" by Frances Boyle

Oct 20, 20223 min read

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"Juncture", "Inheritance", & "Airplane" by Frances Boyle

Juncture Paper napkins over water glasses, scarf-draped lamp hey presto flourish, quick wrist-reveal: a cage of birds that start to sing...