"Nevermore" by Cherry Earnshaw
The cut lines my wrist like a port-wine stain; turning into bluets with the warring sun. The kitchen tile clings to my skin with the...
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Oct 2, 20222 min read
"1972" & "Poem about my concrete apartment building facing the one..." by Brian Baker
1972 Did you know that in the summer of 1972 I ran the merry-go-round in Springbank Park and am really not too sure how I did not run it...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
"three blocks", "the first day of june (2022)", & "bones" by Morgan St Laurent
three blocks I said I wanted to get away So you drove me Right into The lake You said we could go camping But we never did So I wrote 100...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
“The Maggot on Maple Street” by Courtenay Schembri Gray
Shaken from my sleep by yellow taxi dreams; toothpaste is my cork, stopping the wine from sloshing around the great caboose that is I,...
Oct 2, 20222 min read
“Traces” & “Moments” by David J. Kennedy
Traces The moon is a burnt orange goddess traversing the quay. Beads of rain arrive as shooting stars down a misty window on the...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
“In My Next Life” by Anne Perez
I want to be a person who calls to the ocean Howls at it, really And hears a roar in response A crest, an invitation to dive into a...
Oct 2, 20222 min read
“Photocopy” by RJ Danvers
When I think of you I am afraid I think of you Kinder than you were. What about you did I invent? Remembering you wrong feels like some...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
"Chicken Plant", "Grief", & "Mama’s Rug Is An Elegy I Cannot Write" by Chella Courington
Chicken Plant The line chief brags of smelling girls on the rag Thursday he says he dreams of eating me I don’t tell him my dream— hooks...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
"Nocturne" by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
I pose, arms in the air, hands haloing the moon. You draw star maps on my body unlike the charts you sketch in your closet: red crater...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
“Rocky Narrows (Carolyn’s Curse)*" by Jess Levens
*This poem references Plaint of the Poet in an Ignorant Age, by Carolyn Kizer (1959). On a late summer morning, I ventured into Rocky...
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Oct 2, 20222 min read
"Blue", "Int[e]r[l]ude", "Endings", "Mothers/Daughters", & "Passages" by Abigail Weathers
Blue at sunrise I set down that portion of me and whisper to the room “Not yet,” and this is how it is for at least the long length of...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
"Thin Lines" by Ly Faulk
Ly Faulk has loved reading and writing for as long as they could read and write. They still believe in the power of the written word to...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
“7,000 acres of incinerated forest" & "juno, soaring" by Síofra Inessa
7,000 acres of incinerated forest suns burn through holes in my eyes fingers rake light through my skin of leaves every moment scalds...
Oct 2, 20223 min read
"The Middle Distance", "A Shipwreck", & "In My Hometown, We Had a Scene" by Sara Dobbie
The Middle Distance Inside yesterday, we walked through a skeleton forest. The sun burned the sky to halfway between winter and spring,...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
“Fort Lauderdale Coriander” by Lose Touch Completely
My secret language is a cum scribbled code more immediate than a dream, but perhaps we can move past our cycles; reading Henry Miller. ...
Oct 2, 20221 min read
"Dictionary Definitions", "London’s Daughter", "B (B) A"&...by JP Seabright
Dictionary Definitions I took the book you gave me for my birthday, and smashed it across my skull, the Concise Oxford Dictionary. It was...
Oct 2, 20222 min read
"poem for the ghost of who i thought i was" & "all history is the history of failure" by John Sweet
poem for the ghost of who i thought i was a man of words found hanging in the desert a song, but not the one you’re thinking of not the...
Sep 18, 20221 min read
"Chemtrails" by Kelsi Lindus
I am in a plane trying to let go. Talked too long, made it about me again. We are over the piece of country where farm fields turn to...
Sep 18, 20221 min read
“Findley Lake”, “Khraugnbin Concert, 2022”, & “My Mind’s Forbidden Animals” by James Croal Jackson
Findley Lake I have lived long enough to know to stay out of the water. Bug guts a crushed red berry beside me. If there’s poison off the...
Sep 18, 20222 min read
3 Poems by Dave Serrette
I. Fill my belly with the arsenic and old lace. Let me carry you down the lane To the field where the flowers fled After the warm spring...
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