"Pearl Divers" & "Madame Laveau, Fortune Teller and Police Psychic, has a Vision" by Jason Ryberg
Pearl Divers We’ve crossed two states to be here on this shiny, blue Saturday afternoon of hot cosmic winds and A.M. radio crackle,...
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- Aug 21, 2022
- 2 min
“The Misericordias” by Steve Passey
Misericordia To speak respectfully of the dead is to not speak of knowing that they’re damned. To go home again and find the front door...
- Aug 21, 2022
- 4 min
"The American Beauty at Sunset", " Of Drunk Turkeys and Dead Squirrels"...by Victoria Leigh Bennett
The American Beauty at Sunset He liked to be called “Daddy.” And in his rose garden The same petalled, arrogant aristocrats that bloomed...
- Aug 21, 2022
- 1 min
“The State of Me, Love, This” by Ashley Dunn
It has been 22 3 months and I wake up incredulous with you again (like you used to, actually), but I’ll love you again by lunch; then...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
“Noise from a Goat and a Tree” by Ted Naylon Sr.
well, I see the sky over Ireland or maybe marble markings from Connemara goat hide as tight as a fiddle string makes a sound i heard...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
"Jacques-Louis David's Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children" by John Brantingham
For some, war is just academic, just breasts popping out of white flowing dresses as women raise one arm in gorgeous distress, just...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
“History Teacher's Song” by Frank Brunner
No law can make a law do what you want. Ban alcohol, and still, good men will drink. The wisest words drown in the strongest font. Even...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
"Unhinged" by Prosper Ifeanyi
under a potpourri of tentacles stretching across all gloaming shorelines. i have got the news on and what I see is a deer. then this kid...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
“Memorial Day” by Leslie Cairns
On Mother’s Day, I shun cards and don’t go out to brunch. The Hollandaise just wilts, And the champagne gets drunk by my mother. But I...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
“Perspective” by Gina Dantuono
(please read Perspective from top to bottom and then bottom to top) you were gone the door left open you look around, nervous I lie still...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Circulation", "courtesy marketing pitch to Edible Arrangements", & "Redlining" by Maia Joy
Circulation the heart pumps blood to the lungs. this is a library. i am the books. the lungs pump blood back. books live in the library....
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- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
"Call me anytime.", "[Your friend is drawn to flame]"...by Amy Katherine Cannon
Call me anytime. What else is there to say to the friend who reveals they plan to marry an addict careering toward self-destruction? Who...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
“Interrupted Sonnet” & “Moon Song” by Michael Buebe
Interrupted Sonnet you are cricket calling flashlight / lamp / against the damp grass — night air / dark eye balling into the hands of...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
"Off Ramp", "Falling Towards Where We Don't Want To Go Again"... by Christina M. Rau
Off Ramp This wasn’t the exit I wanted. This a scattered merge away from where everyone else is headed. This one abrupt. This one crept...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
"Black Racers (Single Ladies)", "Jays", & "Chubby" by Jess Levens
Black Racers (Single Ladies) Along the trail that leads to the river, I come upon a pit of black racers— all writhing in a slithering sex...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
"English for Cigarettes" by Shannon Frost Greenstein
He grew up in Poland, a Catholic childhood with a proclivity for stoicism; pious, ascetic, the gift of intellect and his rock-hard work...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 1 min
"Tongue-Tied Laces" by Margot Stillings
She laces her cherry Docs and shuffles forward to knock A book tucked under her arm her heart ticking like a bomb Other side of that door...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 1 min
"She Said Write a Me Poem" by Ace Boggess
I misheard write a tree poem, thought I’m not a tree person, I’m a bush person; I’m not a nature person, I’m a nurture person— which was...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 1 min
“Betting Slips” by Michael Pollentine
Didn’t go to his funeral. Anxiety. Truthfully. Regretfully. I liked him. Counted out papers And betting slips Whilst the dog Lay black...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 1 min
"Eclipse" by Mo
Lover, do you think the sun misses the moon the same way I ache for you? Do you think they’re long-distance like we are, with only an...
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