"(Chronic) pain" by Claire Marsden
I wake and hear birds calling the day into being. It drifts like steam from my morning coffee, into my mouth. Summer is a lump in my...
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"British Winter Birds" by Pramod Subbaraman
Beautiful birds that brighten dull and gloomy British winters With weird and wonderful names Were those who named them drunk or starving?...
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"CASTAWAY", "DUST", & "IRONCLAD" by Regine Ebner
CASTAWAY skies bristle to midnight to sleep in the shadow of the barn with homesick dreams and pourquoi tales lost among the furious...
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"Stories I Cannot Tell" & "The Complication" by Rachel Mallalieu
Stories I Cannot Tell Here’s the story I want to tell—each morning I got up before dawn to make the fire and cook rice, and while the...
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"Arctic Drizzle at the Food Truck" by Matthew McDonald
Mature Age Student The earth is crying like it’s lost a fake Rolex it believed was real based on the glistening multitude of assurances...
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"Pissing in the Bushes", "My YouTube Viewing History", & "Bad News" by Charlotte Cosgrove
Pissing in the Bushes I’ve just seen a man piss in the bushes Opposite my house. It’s the same place the school kids hide their cider. An...
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"I, Sisyphus" by Ron Tobey
I have cheated death, again and again; for punishment, I lose at love, again and again. we hike up New Hampshire’s Stinson Mountain on...
May 15, 20222 min read
"The Patron", "Fear and Loathing", & "The Tempest" by M.P. Powers
The Patron He’s sitting in the corner, side-part falling to the left, white napkin fluttering on his breast, soft pink hands armed with...
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"Bombs and Brexit?" by Pramod Subbaraman
Acerbic Assertions by Arrogant Affluent Alcoholic Blustering Boris Blabbering about Bombs and Brexit: the same thing? Certainties...
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"Exquisite Smallness" by Jesse Suess
This evening the sky craned itself into an immense tower of clouds. Its peak arched over my head to the horizon and still there was just...
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"Electricity" by Katrina Kaye
This gift, bestowed to you in flashes of lightning upon brittle twigs. Your father’s fist in your mother’s womb, we gave you light for...
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"I wake up tired and sore", "By Candlelight" & "Rabbit" by Jason Melvin
I wake up tired and sore and often soaked in sweat I don’t remember being awake or any dreams I may have had but I’m usually more tired...
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"Wish I Were Here" by Penny Sarmada
I must have that kind of face: everywhere I go people always stop me for directions I tell tourists how to get to Kensington Market for...
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"nobody ever got slapped over my alopecia", "next time i will just let it fly"...by J. Archer Avary
nobody ever got slapped over my alopecia punked on april fools day caught up in the monkeyshines of my aspirational barber joelinton’s...
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"Broken Toys", "Way We've Always Been"...by Scott Cumming
Broken Toys I blamed myself for every broken toy Back when I was a kid And now I find out how fucked up that was How a brain skewers a...
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"Small Black Rose" by David Hay
The beauty of your peace, makes the boarders of the horizon recede into nothingness, and the mind crippled by its own weight is released...
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"Thunder Sound" & "Crab Shell" by Sarah M. Lillard
Thunder Sound I grew up with thunder, lightning, with klaxon warnings to take shelter. Reaping whirlwinds for sowing heat, humidity,...
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"Taking, Care" & "Sip-soaked" by K Weber
Taking, Care I was in the squares of Savannah, moon eyed and just-wed, honey-sunned, while relatives plucked my grandmother’s best things...
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"Reminiscence is a necessary evil" & "For the love basking folks" by Ankur Jyoti Saikia
Reminiscence is a necessary evil And the melody of love lingers Alas, we're now only strangers Oh, but that beautiful flower Bloomed only...
May 15, 20223 min read
"The answer in an envelope", "Painted by numbers", & "Craven Man" by Simon Leonard
The answer in an envelope It lies on the table, lips pursed like a religious aunt in possession of the truth and the certainty that only...
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