"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...
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- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 1 min
“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, 2022
- 2 min
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...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
"Gabi | Night" By Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago's work has appeared/will appear in Bureau of Complaint, Crow & Cross Keys, Cutbow Quarterly, Honey Literary, and...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
“My Brain Tells Lies and My Body Is At War” by Margot Stillings
Content Warning: this poem references mental disorders, disordered eating, and sexual assault. that afternoon the therapist said two...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
“The Gathering” by Leila Tualla
I’d like to gather my children and their children’s children and we’d meet by the shore at dawn. We would watch the horizon burn as the...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
“Lawrence Welk Rerun” by Timothy Direlle Batson
He says we’re just bags of meat, metabolizing until we die no meaning, no purpose no meaning, no purpose no meaning, no purpose unless we...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
“Virgo Season” by Jarrod Campbell
Now onto nights when the silvery moon extends its monochrome to anything pale and prepared to reflect, absorb, and forecast the cooler...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
“Acting My Age”& “A Momentary Crossing” by Bonnie Meekums
Acting My Age I am the crone who craves Naked skin against mine Who yearns giving in to gravity The safe, strong cradle Of a lover’s hold...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 4 min
"Man Turns Forty (Throws Pity Party)" by Benjamin Drevlow
Content Warning for references to suicide, child abuse, and self harm. My wife tried to arrange an escape room for my fortieth birthday...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
"Worms and Gods" by Sebastian Vice
We The human-ape A god-like misfortune A worm-like manifestation Stricken with consciousness Dangling from decaying bags of skin...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
"Ornithomancy with Rain & Flying Geese" & "How I Wish To Be Fine Crystal" by Cassandra Whitaker
Ornithomancy with Rain & Flying Geese The sky empties leaden rain. Its story falls apart on its way to earth. Its story is the same sad...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
"Our Species: A Bio-Note of Homo Sapiens", "Birthplacing"...by Yuan Changming
Our Species: A Bio-Note of Homo Sapiens So, we distinguished ourselves as Bipedalists eating cooked foods So, we’ve become frenzy Makers...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
“I have called you by name, you are mine” by Kelsi Lindus
Tune in—it's prime time for mammals with a prefrontal cortex and anxiety disorders on a planet that is burning. Mammal from mamma,...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
"Life in the Bathroom" by Nolcha Fox
Life in the Bathroom Response poem to “From the Women’s Restroom” by Kaitlyn Spees A sign above the women’s bathroom sink tells me Water...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 6 min
"Jellyfish", "Fern, Essentially", "Writing My Will Without You"...by Robin Kinzer
CW: sexual harassment, chronic/potentially fatal illness, and pornography/pin-up girl culture Jellyfish After the really dirty and...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
"A Tub Poem", "Tied Down", "The Last War"..by Tom Mazur
A Tub Poem I was watching this poem float by and thinking it was painted by Van Gogh I don’t know Or was it the women going to and fro...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
"You Cry For Your Dearest" by Mark McConville
We share moments of grace And we love the bones of the bird That flies around our blooming fantasy Collecting paper notes written in your...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
“Love Me Some Coyote”(After 'Coyote Dream II' by Karen Pierce Gonzalez)..by Kyla Houbolt
Love Me Some Coyote (After 'Coyote Dream II' by Karen Pierce Gonzalez) Coyote is a friend of mine, at least, he told me he was, but how...
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