"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...
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Aug 22, 20221 min read
"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...
Aug 22, 20222 min read
“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
"Clover" by Jerome Berglund
Davis stands before projection… raises instrument to his lips stare long enough through open window catch someone exposed baring all...
Aug 22, 20222 min read
"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...
Aug 22, 20222 min read
"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
“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...
Aug 21, 20222 min read
"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
“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...
Aug 21, 20222 min read
"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
“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, 20224 min read
"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, 20221 min read
“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, 20221 min read
“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, 20221 min read
"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, 20221 min read
“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, 20221 min read
"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, 20222 min read
“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, 20221 min read
“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, 20223 min read
"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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