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Apr 3, 20222 min read

"Midnight Apple Picking" & "For Amelia" by David Hay

Midnight Apple Picking In the harsh despondency of night, When tears have dived into their sepulchers And the mists, heavy with every...

Apr 3, 20221 min read

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"Advice" & "Chicago" by Lisa Thornton

Advice Don’t be stupid he said to her and I saw the cannonball leave him and hit her splintering her sternum and entering the cavern...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"Honeydew" by Courtenay S. Gray

For Stewart Nestled in the coves of Paris, with amaretto biscuits and an egg cup of espresso, I listen for your call. As the daylight...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"self-portrait as your worry-stone" by Liane St. Laurent

I taste of salt. salt of the ocean and salt of your palm. you move your thumb back and forth / back and forth across my back / across my...

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"A Reflection at 35,000 Feet" by Saroya Whatley

Flying west as the sun sets It’s like we’re trying to catch the last bit of light Before the night rolls in, Vainly attempting to remain...

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"North Fork of the Skykomish", "Thursday Night", "Fall gently"...by Mercedes Lawry

North Fork of the Skykomish She stands in the hurry of the river. Sunlight bends among Sitka spruce. Memories loll in shady places and...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"There Is a Penny Under My Tongue" by Lindsey Heatherly

I cannot hold this muscle, this lashed-out grit turned limp. It tastes of metal and Vienna sausages straight from the can. Straight down...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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“Emotional Regulation” and "May 4" by Eva Swiecki

“Emotional Regulation” CW: Suicidal Ideation My boyfriend thinks I have issues with “emotional regulation.” “Yelling…” he says, “I can’t...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"A Fool's Errand?" by Stephanie Howe Sullivan

A fool, I contemplate tomorrow’s fate. For future truth, I truly yearn to know. I think, What if? And next, I speculate, What then?...

"Isolation Street", "This Morning’s Playlist", and "Involuntary Actions" by Brady Riddle

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"Isolation Street", "This Morning’s Playlist", and "Involuntary Actions" by Brady Riddle

Isolation Street A half-smoked cigarette dangles from idle fingers on a shadowed stoop returned from the empty corner bar where one...

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"Fragments 1" and "Run The Bases" by Joseph Buehler

Fragments 1 The Lone Ranger approached the low makeshift stage of the automobile dealership as his audience waited for him to begin to...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"Lonelier Than Roy Orbison Ever Was" by S.Bennett

Christmas Eve night And the pub is not very full, Although there is a hundred percent more People than last year, When it was closed,...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"MOONSKIN STRETCHED OVER AGARWOOD" by Alana Seena

I let it creep up the sage-throated walls and roost While the body crawls out of the room. The kitchen walls whisper about spoiled milk...

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"Still", "Unnamed", "Descending Me", and "Tuesday Afternoons" by Gráinne Shannon

Still Water torn with crossing waves tells how the wind blows currents to fight against the tide rolling forward flattening sand while...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"Change" by Uday Shankar Ojha

The last cold bite of the year together. Ice, wish you could fossilize the cream As an oasis to the desert Of my dry years to come. The...

"Things We Did Before Google" and "Agape" by Thaina

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"Things We Did Before Google" and "Agape" by Thaina

Things We Did Before Google Danielle yells my name at the gate louder than usual and I trip over my dad’s shoes, stumbling out the door....

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"Borderline Baking" by Camille Lewis

For this you will need: Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American...

Mar 6, 20222 min read

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"spring" and "This Is For All" by Kyla Houbolt

spring thinking about eunuchs which may be absurd since I never had what they lost but still. also railroad tracks, unused for years also...

Mar 6, 20221 min read

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"Cumming and Leaving" by Jessie Peitsch

Cumming and Leaving Copenhagen, Denmark You will remember my tapping on your hip when in the produce aisle at the grocery store I cannot...

Mar 6, 20221 min read

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"Sea Spray" by Sill Mowrey

Wasted, like a gesture of sympathy I lay starboard, at odds with the waves Which rock me gently As well as shake and Threaten my vessel...