poetry 25/38

Sep 5, 20226 min read

"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...

"A Tub Poem", "Tied Down", "The Last War"..by Tom Mazur

Sep 5, 20221 min read

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"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...

"You Cry For Your Dearest" by Mark McConville

Sep 5, 20221 min read

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"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...

“Love Me Some Coyote”(After 'Coyote Dream II' by Karen Pierce Gonzalez)..by Kyla Houbolt

Sep 5, 20221 min read

poetry

“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...

“A Lesson in Nonsense (Re)defined” by Rachel Canwell

Sep 5, 20221 min read

poetry

“A Lesson in Nonsense (Re)defined” by Rachel Canwell

Grab a pen, write this down. Ink it before you forget. Nonsense is: The things people shout when they know they are wrong. The things...

Sep 5, 20221 min read

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"Snapshot" by Karen Pierce Gonzalez

I am barefoot and hungry on the forest fringe of a black and white dream over-exposed shadows film my skin as I squeeze out of a tightly...

Sep 5, 20222 min read

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“8 Short Poems” by Marc Isaac Potter

Each Step Each Step The Ancient Ones step through me. Each step, So fresh No step was ever taken. Purity Two dozen Purity Roses. The...

"Gold Watch Fever" & "Corporate Restructuring" by R. Gerry Fabian

Sep 5, 20221 min read

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"Gold Watch Fever" & "Corporate Restructuring" by R. Gerry Fabian

Gold Watch Fever In progress, anonymous dog-eared milksop employees pigeonhole discreet chagrin so as to excavate spine-tingling...

"Crossings" & "Blank" by Leticia Priebe Rocha

Sep 5, 20222 min read

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"Crossings" & "Blank" by Leticia Priebe Rocha

Crossings after moon river (the frank ocean cover) a friend whom I love dearly once told me: it’s never about them, it’s about you don’t...

"Caved Silhouettes" & "Forever More" by Rob Azevedo

Aug 22, 20221 min read

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"Caved Silhouettes" & "Forever More" by Rob Azevedo

CAVED SILHOUETTES With tired feet we run while the woods peel back on their own past the boarded homes we played in past crusty folds we...

“A Woman Witnesses Velvet Shedding” & “Chronic Pain” by Candice Kelsey

Aug 22, 20222 min read

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“A Woman Witnesses Velvet Shedding” & “Chronic Pain” by Candice Kelsey

A Woman Witnesses Velvet Shedding In the woods behind her house, half a mile from the Savannah River, she hears the bellow of a buck....

Aug 22, 20221 min read

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"Clover" by Jerome Berglund

Davis stands before projection… raises instrument to his lips stare long enough through open window catch someone exposed baring all...

"Fish Supper" & "Watching Dr. Zhivago with my Daughter" by Adele Evershed

Aug 22, 20222 min read

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"Fish Supper" & "Watching Dr. Zhivago with my Daughter" by Adele Evershed

Fish Supper so much has been lost along with our Sunday best / we now have different types of Christ tricks / and 60 second flicks...

"Swimming as Allegory for Living" & "Scar" by Allison Thung

Aug 22, 20222 min read

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"Swimming as Allegory for Living" & "Scar" by Allison Thung

Swimming as Allegory for Living When I say I don’t know how to swim, I mean I never learned to do it properly. That they tried to teach...

Aug 22, 20222 min read

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“Magic Theatre Poetry Reading” & “Springtime (Ada by the Shore)” by Lorelei Bacht

Magic Theatre Poetry Reading I wanted to eat you. I did not understand your power, the slick sleaze of it. Your legs uncrossed, offered...

"Momentarily Neither Here Nor There. Until We Are." by Laura Cooney

Aug 21, 20222 min read

flash fiction

"Momentarily Neither Here Nor There. Until We Are." by Laura Cooney

I sit, You sit, We sit. You’re talking, I’m listening. I can clearly see your lips moving and I can hear the individual words you’re...

Aug 21, 20221 min read

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“Jane in the Kitchen” by Jessica Berry

Unlock my body and move myself to dance Into warm liquid, flowing, blowing glass (Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer) “Listen. This is the best...

"Pearl Divers" & "Madame Laveau, Fortune Teller and Police Psychic, has a Vision" by Jason Ryberg

Aug 21, 20222 min read

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"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,...

Aug 21, 20222 min read

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“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...

"The American Beauty at Sunset", " Of Drunk Turkeys and Dead Squirrels"...by Victoria Leigh Bennett

Aug 21, 20224 min read

poetry

"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...