"On the Stones of the Temple Floors Incantations are Written"...by Steve Passey
On the Stones of the Temple Floors Incantations are Written There comes a time when most people start walking back, walking back to...
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"Resting Heart Rate", "The Northeast Direct", "Walking Around"...by Beth Mulcahy
Resting Heart Rate The hollow heart pumps peace rhythmically, contracting and dilating, pushing calm methodically against the flow of...
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"Fledgling", "Voice-Over Mine", & "Drift" by Melissa Flores Anderson
Fledgling The way you smell brings me back To the feel of your smile against my hair, The sound of breath on my cheek. The feel of your...
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"The Life and Times of Suku and Dukhu" by Ankit Raj
Once upon a time in a village by the river, lived Suku and Dukhu, sister and brother. Suku and Dukhu wasn’t their real name. It was their...
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"Cruelty in the Head, Kindness in the Heart" by Drew Pisarra
Part of my training was to learn how to smile as my mind secretly plotted your undoing, to agree and nod and make nice and keep quiet...
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"spare.", "I like the way the cat feels on my back", "on that."...by Georgie Bailey
spare. We paint her old house creating constellations of ...
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"The Heart, The Mind", "Crates", "We Shared Only This Earth"...by Ali Nasir
The Heart, The Mind Often, these two will have tea together. Turning in the sun, devouring fields of bluegrass. I won’t lie ...
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"Monsters Under the Bed", "Consequences of 50 Shades", "Fan My Flames"...by Aimee Nicole
CW: BDSM and sexual content. Monsters Under the Bed How nervous I am to fall asleep and meet the roulette of nightmares. The only thing I...
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"Fog-Blooming" by Bernardo Villela
Condensation convolutes my vision making it hard to see the fog-blooming tree. The crow flies up it (as the crow flies) and seeks a perch...
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"The Widow", "Losing the Better Part of Us", & "Our Poor Circulation" by Mikal Wix
The Widow Courage is a centrifuge, an open mouth, a subterranean subterfuge, a shoe untied. Where are his glasses? I ask no one. Alone is...
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"Halfway Through", "I Am a Tree, I Am Not", "Outside, Searching "...by Valencia Wilianto
Halfway Through Maybe it has to be this way. All these griefs passing through just to make a sharp left turn or even a sudden stop. We...
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"A Woman Loses Friends" by Candice Kelsey
Sometimes the urban coyotes would jump her fence and piss on the trunk of her Japanese Pine; sometimes they would rub their faces on the...
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"70 chairs", "sunflower seeds", & "how to fly a kite for Persephone" by Annie Cowell
70 chairs history hangs in this square it rests in the iron and bronze and loiters in between the memories of the abandoned furniture,...
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"Misfit" by Nolcha Fox
I’m an eccentric oddball, not even my attire fits in. I dress in the dark in my wardrobe, doors shut and eyes closed. Groping in shadow,...
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"Albatross", "Store", & "The Devil Comes Around In the Winter" by Rami Obeid
Albatross And what came from all that we had / I stay cocooned in piano keys, waiting for someone to come and bring music to me, even...
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"crystal mountain ramble" by w v sutra
voices in the hill thunder missing souls gone from these rocks strangers long gone with their tennis and their cocktails their pedigreed...
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"Everything in Flames" by CL Bledsoe and Michael Gushue
Like lightning, something that flashes but no one remembers where it struck— that fucker will burn If you can find the right match. I’m...
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"If this is the Pantheon" by Louise Mather
This earth is upended, and before and before, I am wrenching your bones for blue sequins from the glass roof, icicles folded in ribbons,...
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"Handling" & "Duologue" by Sanjeev Sethi
Handling Bind up myself in a bubble wrap of poetic warmth and make my moves on the roadway of reality. When the air balls puncture: the...
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"Satori in a Yaris", "Complications", & "Us, Separated" by Christopher P. Mooney
Satori in a Yaris We drank until closing again last night, then, unable to get a room, discussed Kerouac and Plath before deciding to...
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