poetry 35/38

Feb 20, 20222 min read

"Into the Morning" by David Hay

Language falls from the sky, As my eyes, fleshly opened, After two days Drinking straight, Lungs full of the black weeds of time,...

Feb 20, 20222 min read

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"I still want you, moon", "crying on new year’s 12:01am"...by Nicole Callräm

I still want you, moon after Brenda Shaughnessy I read righteous rage of a poet telling you to fuck off calling out all the ways you...

Feb 20, 20222 min read

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"Let it ride", "Calle Sin Salida (Dead End Street)", and "It’s the only way" by Damien Posterino

Let it ride He has always been relentless when it comes to the chase. As a boy tossing coins for sweets, luck was his sugary hit. All the...

Feb 20, 20223 min read

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"Macbeth and Hamlet down the Haçienda" by Ivor Daniel

a drum a drum and bass and bass and bass deep reverb echoes off my face my cranium thin vibrating party walls I knew this...

Feb 20, 20221 min read

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"The Wobbling Moon" by Merril D. Smith

The world courses on arhythmic heartbeats, now too fast, now too slow-- vulture-winged clouds swoop, then fly, circling just beyond...

Feb 20, 20222 min read

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"to stand still and yearn to go", "good for you", and "sunlight incarnate" by Tamara Bašić

to stand still and yearn to go you sit in silence, ground moving beneath the soles of your shoes, beneath the tracks; cities rushing by,...

Feb 20, 20223 min read

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"Poem for People Who Say They Don’t Pray", "Poem for Sylvia Plath"... by Nicole Tallman

Poem for People Who Say They Don’t Pray This is a poem for those who say they don’t pray. Poem is a prayer. If you write, you pray. I...

Feb 20, 20222 min read

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"Essential Services" by Ankit Raj

My cousin, the know-it-all procrastinator, Would rather host barbecues in his backyard Than sit at the shop his father bleeds his pension...

Feb 20, 20222 min read

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"post-getting ghosted" by ongoing vision

CW: vomiting The seat on window view was left empty by a man, coeval as me, moved to the middle row and kissed a woman who sat alone. I...

Feb 20, 20221 min read

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"Letter Left Inside 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' " by Kyle Vaughn

I want to lie with you on a hotel mattress and listen to a turntable play Sweetheart of the Rodeo. You should hear this country music,...

Feb 20, 20222 min read

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"Inadequacy" and "Attic Alcove" by Beth Mulcahy

A note from the publisher: our web server is terrible, and the formatting of Beth's first poem, "Inadequacy". is very important. It...

Feb 20, 20221 min read

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"Passing by Old Highway 17 Road" by Richard LeDue

It reminds me of telling someone they'll always be something, until they die- the old road wrinkled with cracks, while the new highway...

Feb 20, 20222 min read

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"Promise", "Mind of Fire", "Moonfall", and "Unpublished" by Alexander Etheridge

Promise I bring you almonds and apricots, fresh dates and country oranges. You have stitched your name in the very world around me, I see...

Feb 6, 20222 min read

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"Seal and Lock" by Jesse Miksic

Pump Station The sound of the clock Becomes the sound of the water This fluid moves like Color through the brain This hour’s cruel and...

Feb 6, 20221 min read

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"Summer Bonfire" and "A Space I Cannot Fill" by Helen Openshaw

Summer Bonfire The smell of wood smoke pops the air, Engulfing the late summer evening in bursts. I watch the sparks of fire soaring,...

Feb 6, 20221 min read

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"Kinda-Cowboy Wisdom" by Alana Greene

All four windows down, burlap mullet in the wind. Sun-sweat glimmering across your paperback skin. Face like motel heaven, lips a bright...

Feb 6, 20222 min read

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"Ode to Rosalind Franklin", "Origin", and "Head Lines" by Lily Rose Kosmicki

Ode to Rosalind Franklin I have three letters D, N and A I believe in them but there is more than flat symbol acronyms and chemicals...

Feb 6, 20221 min read

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"Florida" by Adam Johnson

Flight delayed. Just kidding I’m at the Marriott. There is this dad who looks like Cat Stevens with AUD who has two teenage sons and the...

Feb 6, 20222 min read

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"The Unfilled Branch" and "You In the Pond" by Alex Carrigan

The Unfilled Branch My father tells me that there was an Indigenous woman who married into my family back when my family was divided...

Feb 6, 20223 min read

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"Hospice Conference" and "The Me-Bomb" by Jesse Hilson

HOSPICE CONFERENCE Remember second grade on the field for gym and you saw your mother’s car drive by on Brown Street? She was running an...