"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...
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“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...
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"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...
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"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...
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"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...
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"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...
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"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...
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“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...
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"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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"Smuggled Images" by Anne Whitehouse
I Sister Three was on the phone, and she was outraged. Sister Two had told her about the photos I had taken that afternoon of our mother...
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“Open and Closed Doors” & “To My Hand Scrawled Lines in the Hospital” by Matthew McGuirk
Open and Closed Doors The door of my childhood home is now worn, too many scratch marks from this dog or that one before we put a hole...
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“4 Poems” by Enikő Deptuch Vághy
Aria for Need The night is a parched dog and I quench it, skate my feet so you will not hear me peel my toes from the kitchen’s stained...
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“The Ask” & “Thrill” by Kimberly Reiss
THE ASK It's easy to spot a man who's having an affair. At least now it is. Absence where the was once presence. It starts out benign,...
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"He Came Back Years Later but I Was Already Damaged Goods", "Longingness"...by Suzanne Richardson
HE CAME BACK YEARS LATER BUT I WAS ALREADY DAMAGED GOODS Bright parrots chirp glass songs near your lunette window <<>> I want to keep a...
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“Coevolution” & “Systems of Navigation” by Liana Kapelke-Dale
Coevolution I’ve never dreamed of wolves only of the stars above their ears. My dog sleeps next to me still green from a roll in...
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"Existential 1", "Existential 2"... by Siân Killingsworth
Existential 1 First, we were killing the bees. Then, people cultivated outrage & condescension & put white cubes of bee colonies on roofs...
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"Moon Girl" by Simon Leonard
I’d recognise you from any distance — even with your back to me, all packaged up in Petit Bateau, remote at the edge of a puddle,...
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"Forkless at Noon" by Kyla Houbolt
Helios got very weary of driving the sun so I agreed to help out. But on the way I lost my forks and had to stop long enough to call the...
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"Colder" & "Hammer and Tongs" by Jane Zwart
Colder Playing Hot and Cold we hid a silver dollar and, being young, we heard no warning in the splutter hotter; we thought nothing of...
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"Sometimes a Fire" by L.M. Cole
Sometimes I’m a fire you say, distant stare you’re thinking of oil slick, flame lit, tossing black clouds upward to an unreachable sun ...
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