poetry 24/38

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...

"The Middle Distance", "A Shipwreck", & "In My Hometown, We Had a Scene" by Sara Dobbie

Oct 2, 20223 min read

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"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,...

“Fort Lauderdale Coriander” by Lose Touch Completely

Oct 2, 20221 min read

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“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. ...

"Dictionary Definitions", "London’s Daughter", "B (B) A"&...by JP Seabright

Oct 2, 20221 min read

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"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...

"poem for the ghost of who i thought i was" & "all history is the history of failure" by John Sweet

Oct 2, 20222 min read

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"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

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"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...

“Findley Lake”, “Khraugnbin Concert, 2022”, & “My Mind’s Forbidden Animals” by James Croal Jackson

Sep 18, 20221 min read

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“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

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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, 20221 min read

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"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...

“My Brain Tells Lies and My Body Is At War” by Margot Stillings

Sep 18, 20222 min read

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“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, 20221 min read

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“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...

“Lawrence Welk Rerun” by Timothy Direlle Batson

Sep 18, 20221 min read

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“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, 20221 min read

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“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...

“Acting My Age”& “A Momentary Crossing” by Bonnie Meekums

Sep 18, 20222 min read

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“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...

"Man Turns Forty (Throws Pity Party)" by Benjamin Drevlow

Sep 18, 20224 min read

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"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, 20221 min read

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"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...

"Ornithomancy with Rain & Flying Geese" & "How I Wish To Be Fine Crystal" by Cassandra Whitaker

Sep 18, 20222 min read

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"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...

"Our Species: A Bio-Note of Homo Sapiens", "Birthplacing"...by Yuan Changming

Sep 18, 20222 min read

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"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...

“I have called you by name, you are mine” by Kelsi Lindus

Sep 5, 20221 min read

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“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, 20221 min read

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"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...