"The Call" and "Regina" by Corinna Board
THE CALL Drawn to the edge— that tug from within, that umbilical hook. Hand of God, or my own mind? It doesn’t really matter. The void...
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- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"For Y" by Stephen J. Golds
As I was leaving her apartment one afternoon, she took me by the hand and led me around her building to the garage. Showed me the...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Into the Morning" by David Hay
Language falls from the sky, As my eyes, fleshly opened, After two days Drinking straight, Lungs full of the black weeds of time,...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"I still want you, moon", "crying on new year’s 12:01am"...by Nicole Callräm
I still want you, moon after Brenda Shaughnessy I read righteous rage of a poet telling you to fuck off calling out all the ways you...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Let it ride", "Calle Sin Salida (Dead End Street)", and "It’s the only way" by Damien Posterino
Let it ride He has always been relentless when it comes to the chase. As a boy tossing coins for sweets, luck was his sugary hit. All the...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 3 min
"Macbeth and Hamlet down the Haçienda" by Ivor Daniel
a drum a drum and bass and bass and bass deep reverb echoes off my face my cranium thin vibrating party walls I knew this...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"The Wobbling Moon" by Merril D. Smith
The world courses on arhythmic heartbeats, now too fast, now too slow-- vulture-winged clouds swoop, then fly, circling just beyond...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"to stand still and yearn to go", "good for you", and "sunlight incarnate" by Tamara Bašić
to stand still and yearn to go you sit in silence, ground moving beneath the soles of your shoes, beneath the tracks; cities rushing by,...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 3 min
"Poem for People Who Say They Don’t Pray", "Poem for Sylvia Plath"... by Nicole Tallman
Poem for People Who Say They Don’t Pray This is a poem for those who say they don’t pray. Poem is a prayer. If you write, you pray. I...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Essential Services" by Ankit Raj
My cousin, the know-it-all procrastinator, Would rather host barbecues in his backyard Than sit at the shop his father bleeds his pension...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"post-getting ghosted" by ongoing vision
CW: vomiting The seat on window view was left empty by a man, coeval as me, moved to the middle row and kissed a woman who sat alone. I...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"Letter Left Inside 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' " by Kyle Vaughn
I want to lie with you on a hotel mattress and listen to a turntable play Sweetheart of the Rodeo. You should hear this country music,...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Inadequacy" and "Attic Alcove" by Beth Mulcahy
A note from the publisher: our web server is terrible, and the formatting of Beth's first poem, "Inadequacy". is very important. It...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"Passing by Old Highway 17 Road" by Richard LeDue
It reminds me of telling someone they'll always be something, until they die- the old road wrinkled with cracks, while the new highway...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Promise", "Mind of Fire", "Moonfall", and "Unpublished" by Alexander Etheridge
Promise I bring you almonds and apricots, fresh dates and country oranges. You have stitched your name in the very world around me, I see...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Seal and Lock" by Jesse Miksic
Pump Station The sound of the clock Becomes the sound of the water This fluid moves like Color through the brain This hour’s cruel and...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
"Summer Bonfire" and "A Space I Cannot Fill" by Helen Openshaw
Summer Bonfire The smell of wood smoke pops the air, Engulfing the late summer evening in bursts. I watch the sparks of fire soaring,...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
"Kinda-Cowboy Wisdom" by Alana Greene
All four windows down, burlap mullet in the wind. Sun-sweat glimmering across your paperback skin. Face like motel heaven, lips a bright...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Ode to Rosalind Franklin", "Origin", and "Head Lines" by Lily Rose Kosmicki
Ode to Rosalind Franklin I have three letters D, N and A I believe in them but there is more than flat symbol acronyms and chemicals...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
"Florida" by Adam Johnson
Flight delayed. Just kidding I’m at the Marriott. There is this dad who looks like Cat Stevens with AUD who has two teenage sons and the...
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