poetry 23/38

Oct 20, 20221 min read

“My Love is Like a Little Blue Lada” & “Three Stones” by Ryan Keating

My Love Is Like A Little Blue Lada My love is like a little blue Lada packed to the ceiling with melons pressed against the windows and...

“Isn't It Only Stone?” by Alex Vartan Gubbins

Oct 17, 20221 min read

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“Isn't It Only Stone?” by Alex Vartan Gubbins

Clouds surround Aragats peaks as we ride in a shared taxi to Gyumri. She watches the grays slither rock to rock, plume like apricots,...

Oct 17, 20222 min read

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“Unheard Message” by Christine Barkley

Downtown I found a handwritten sign: Have You Been Having Unusual Dreams? There was a number to call. That was all. I think I saw it...

"I Only Want Him When He Smells Like Whiskey & Camels"...by Kait Quinn

Oct 17, 20222 min read

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"I Only Want Him When He Smells Like Whiskey & Camels"...by Kait Quinn

I ONLY WANT HIM WHEN HE SMELLS LIKE WHISKEY & CAMELS When he's just steel plucked new calluses into his fingers. I want to jar every...

"Fuckin Sunshowers", "Peanuts", & "Eatin From Grandma's Purple Hands" by Adam Van Winkle

Oct 17, 20222 min read

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"Fuckin Sunshowers", "Peanuts", & "Eatin From Grandma's Purple Hands" by Adam Van Winkle

FUCKIN SUNSHOWERS We were drinkin beers And eatin five-buck rib half-racks At the bar down the street Paddy Mack’s in Chicago Our...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

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"South Florida" by Leigh Chadwick

The morning rises every morning. I dream my head bleeding. I don’t know why. When I wake up, I dress my eyes in Gucci and coat my throat...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

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"Sea Legs" by Todd Matson

You wanted to be top dog. Now you’re in over your head. You feel like you’re herding cats. All those blind spots can be a bitch. The...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

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"Facetime" by Áine Rose

I was preparing for talk about the weather, small town updates, I miss you too’s while following ghosts around grey-clad slabs of...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

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"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...

"1972" & "Poem about my concrete apartment building facing the one..." by Brian Baker

Oct 2, 20222 min read

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"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...

"three blocks", "the first day of june (2022)", & "bones" by Morgan St Laurent

Oct 2, 20221 min read

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"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...

“The Maggot on Maple Street” by Courtenay Schembri Gray

Oct 2, 20221 min read

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“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,...

“Traces” & “Moments” by David J. Kennedy

Oct 2, 20222 min read

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“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

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“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

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“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...

"Chicken Plant", "Grief", & "Mama’s Rug Is An Elegy I Cannot Write" by Chella Courington

Oct 2, 20221 min read

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"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

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"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...

“Rocky Narrows (Carolyn’s Curse)*" by Jess Levens

Oct 2, 20221 min read

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“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...

"Blue", "Int[e]r[l]ude", "Endings", "Mothers/Daughters", & "Passages" by Abigail Weathers

Oct 2, 20222 min read

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"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

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"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...