poetry 3/38

Jul 214 min read

"monday and then tuesday", "unemployment", "ode to stupid boys" & "[unrelenting]" by Michy Woodward

monday and then tuesday whole milk french style yogurt at noon the departure of moldy raspberries my lawyer is calling, i’m napping, do...

"Mixed Media with Open Mouths" by Jeffrey Hermann

Jul 211 min read

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"Mixed Media with Open Mouths" by Jeffrey Hermann

Cinderella left the ball early and snuck into Sleeping Beauty’s chamber. Leaning over, Cinderella kissed Sleeping Beauty on the mouth. At...

"underdog", "oh dolores", "were you born in a barn" by J. R. Wilkerson

Jul 211 min read

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"underdog", "oh dolores", "were you born in a barn" by J. R. Wilkerson

underdog they say timing is everything, the kids right now they can’t appreciate how we would make fun where there was none we had world...

"The Single Parents’ Sunday Cycle" by Lucy Goldring

Jul 211 min read

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"The Single Parents’ Sunday Cycle" by Lucy Goldring

Smile uneasily while being dismayed that they’re all middle-aged Remember, with profound disappointment, that you’re nearly thirty-nine...

"Archaic Torso of Apollo" & "On Trees" by Gwen Lemley

Jul 214 min read

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"Archaic Torso of Apollo" & "On Trees" by Gwen Lemley

Torso Miletus, marble sculpture circa 480 B.C. Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen (France). 2006. Archaic Torso of Apollo He’s got no...

"chlorine blonde" & "a receipt found under the wardrobe" by Rachel B Velebny

Jul 211 min read

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"chlorine blonde" & "a receipt found under the wardrobe" by Rachel B Velebny

chlorine blonde walking on the edges of my feet along the edges of pools filled with welcomed bodies my way is dappled with splashes from...

"Holding On", "Ruth", "The Eyes of Texas", "Wine and Roaches", "Unfinished" & "Benediction" by Charlie Brice

Jul 215 min read

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"Holding On", "Ruth", "The Eyes of Texas", "Wine and Roaches", "Unfinished" & "Benediction" by Charlie Brice

Holding On No one wants to go there’s never a right time A single leaf alone holds on Friends sons daughters parents disappear discover...

"Artemis", "Backside Hymn", "From the Mouths of Great Aunts", "Wind is", "On a Sparse Summer Tuesday", "Time", & "Forming" by Kelli Lage

Jul 213 min read

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"Artemis", "Backside Hymn", "From the Mouths of Great Aunts", "Wind is", "On a Sparse Summer Tuesday", "Time", & "Forming" by Kelli Lage

Artemis asks me if I ever noticed she is a mirage of weeping willows, thorns hiding under ditches, and deer in headlights. asks me what...

"Biting Back" & "The Nature of a Wall" by Adele Evershed

Jul 74 min read

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"Biting Back" & "The Nature of a Wall" by Adele Evershed

Biting Back When I was five I bit a boy / he had followed me down the slide / pinned my arms / and tried to kiss me / the teacher seeing...

Jul 71 min read

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"A Surgery of Sisters" by Leslie Cairns

CW: Cancer When you wait for your estranged sister’s surgery update, on April Fool’s Day, it feels like The way skydiving must feel (I’m...

"Bad News in Plain English" by Sebastian Hunter

Jul 71 min read

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"Bad News in Plain English" by Sebastian Hunter

Everyone was purely jazzed about the sun disappearing for three minutes. In her absence, the day went completely saturnine. Nobody’s...

Jul 71 min read

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"Room No. 470" by Kushal Poddar

She makes him feel 'late' early. He has drunken three white liquid crystals and sits on the shards of a mirror called time. Now the lady...

"Look to the Skies" & "I shouldn't drive at night" by Luck Zytowski

Jul 72 min read

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"Look to the Skies" & "I shouldn't drive at night" by Luck Zytowski

Look to the Skies The red glare shines against my face, bright in the quiet of morning. My eyes glaze over at the monotony, everyone...

"Like a Bat Out of Hell" by Jane Bloomfield

Jul 72 min read

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"Like a Bat Out of Hell" by Jane Bloomfield

Anyone who’s ever done high school art has painted the full moon dripping a sad candle of yellow wax-light back to a dark flat earth...

"Soon", "Such Wild Things as You" & "I Draw a Triangle in the Sky" by Timothy R. Butcher

Jul 70 min read

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"Soon", "Such Wild Things as You" & "I Draw a Triangle in the Sky" by Timothy R. Butcher

"I Still Dream of Mangoes in Your Mother’s Garden" by Layla Ghazaly

Jul 71 min read

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"I Still Dream of Mangoes in Your Mother’s Garden" by Layla Ghazaly

for Nour No, don’t take that one! that sweet sweet sweet ripe one so delectable that one, all flesh and red and tenderness, I’ve been...

Jul 71 min read

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"Skirmish" by Dan Brotzel

Screeches break the glare of day: Crows scramble; he is on his way. Over the roofs the dragon sweeps (Fuselage of legs, span prehistoric)...

"Basic", "Aspiring" & "The margins..." by Grant Shimmin

Jul 72 min read

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"Basic", "Aspiring" & "The margins..." by Grant Shimmin

Basic Beach sandwiches thrown together from what’s in the car “It’s fairly basic,” she says an excuse of sorts And yes, back in the...

"When the What Ifs Turn into Nows" by Maud Lavin

Jun 233 min read

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"When the What Ifs Turn into Nows" by Maud Lavin

What if I stayed up as late as I wanted to every night and slept in as late as I wanted to each morning. What if I wrote an eco-novella...

"upwards" & "Larvae" by Abigail Coe-Sullivan

Jun 233 min read

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"upwards" & "Larvae" by Abigail Coe-Sullivan

upwards i spent the day untying knots and then reweaving them, yellow on yellow on yellow, telling a story between my fingers picked out...