"crystal mountain ramble" by w v sutra
voices in the hill thunder missing souls gone from these rocks strangers long gone with their tennis and their cocktails their pedigreed...
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- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
"Everything in Flames" by CL Bledsoe and Michael Gushue
Like lightning, something that flashes but no one remembers where it struck— that fucker will burn If you can find the right match. I’m...
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
"If this is the Pantheon" by Louise Mather
This earth is upended, and before and before, I am wrenching your bones for blue sequins from the glass roof, icicles folded in ribbons,...
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
"Handling" & "Duologue" by Sanjeev Sethi
Handling Bind up myself in a bubble wrap of poetic warmth and make my moves on the roadway of reality. When the air balls puncture: the...
- Apr 17, 2022
- 2 min
"Satori in a Yaris", "Complications", & "Us, Separated" by Christopher P. Mooney
Satori in a Yaris We drank until closing again last night, then, unable to get a room, discussed Kerouac and Plath before deciding to...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
"Rogue" by Katy Naylor
I always found it funny that Rogue’s skin held so much power that her touch could take you whole knock you out suck you dry The thought...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
"Rien de rien" & "Alice" by Annick Yerem
Rien de rien You now believe you know me. You send letters laced with praise, stories about your good daughter. But I remember I was like...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"Sweet Corn", "Memory Is a Broken Disguise", & "My Father Is a Human Curse" by Anastasia DiFonzo
Sweet Corn You were tough as beetroot, cracked skin and bloodstains, seeped through my guts until my waste was only you. I was loose...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirk
CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"Tuesdays in February", "Why do storms have names", & "Council Estates"...by Sean Smith
Tuesdays in February Distracted, I stare blankly out the window- The frosted glass obscures The view I'm not even looking at. People pass...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"The Balloon Artist," & "The Farmer and the Alien" by Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat
The Balloon Artist For many years, I was a clown traveling and performing with an infamous circus company. I enjoyed sparking smiles and...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
"To a Photograph of Someone I Don't Know Named Orene" & "Recipe For Losing" by Kyla Houbolt
To a Photograph of Someone I Don't Know Named Orene Orene your name makes me want to sit down at an oilcloth covered table and eat...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"Hedone", "The Cruise" and "Little Beast Upside Down" by Joan García Viltró
Hedone I take pleasure in telling the truth, in not telling all the truth, in not telling lies, in hiding so everyone can have a good...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 4 min
"Gerty", "Spit", and "Blush" by Arden Hunter
Gerty He had a binder clip holding his hat together. It was one of the first things people noticed when they met him, though most were...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
"Fear", "Forgiveness", "Scent of Sorrow", & "Rose Petals in Your Mouth" by Chella Courington
Fear It isn’t the tumor then but the tumor remembered cut from the breast the breast chiseled from the bone rising in dreams or at the...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"Former Lives In Last Night's Dream", "Kite", & "The Girl Who Spoke Swords" by Tim Moder
Former Lives In Last Night’s Dream I follow her through candlelit mazes. I watch her bathe herself in flowers, painting her wings one...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
"1984" by Lorraine Murphy
I bet I'll forget the clammy shirt collar, sheepskin lined coat and brown angola school jumper, uncle-close to my skin in the September...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"Midnight Apple Picking" & "For Amelia" by David Hay
Midnight Apple Picking In the harsh despondency of night, When tears have dived into their sepulchers And the mists, heavy with every...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
"Advice" & "Chicago" by Lisa Thornton
Advice Don’t be stupid he said to her and I saw the cannonball leave him and hit her splintering her sternum and entering the cavern...
- Mar 20, 2022
- 1 min
"Honeydew" by Courtenay S. Gray
For Stewart Nestled in the coves of Paris, with amaretto biscuits and an egg cup of espresso, I listen for your call. As the daylight...
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