"Charlie Chaplin and Me", "Courage", "The Love of My Life"...by Milton P. Ehrlich
Charlie Chaplin and Me When I was a kid, I thought we were related. I walked like him and, like him, didn’t speak, and could pantomime...
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Jan 2, 20221 min read
"Trampoline" and "Pinstripes" by Jason Melvin
Trampoline tattered safety net ripped sliding off its poles in no condition to stop an errant jumper rusted springs rusted...
Jan 2, 20221 min read
"The Tequila Shot", "Lilypad", and "Three Musketears" by Victoria Punch
The Tequila Shot ~ long lick of the tail feather flick tapering tail like a grass blade glass blade shoot of a cry and a gulp and a green...
Jan 2, 20223 min read
"For Butch Baristas and Platform Docs," "Prayer for Justice,"... by Evelyn Bauer
For Butch Baristas and Platform Docs My friend hand-crafts bulldog harnesses the style you always said would look great after you got top...
Jan 2, 20222 min read
"For the love of physics", "'The death of the dragonfly", and "Gold and silver" by Shiksha Dheda
For the love of Physics Oh my little vector, how I follow thee -hither to thither- thou art better than any scalar. Your resistance...
Jan 2, 20222 min read
"I Loved You Differently But I Loved You the Most" and "My Buyer’s Hesitation..." by Karlo Sevilla
I Loved You Differently but I Loved You the Most Remember that summer workshop when I alone defended the whole of your second draft? My...
Jan 2, 20221 min read
"Fishing the Dawn" and "Nighttide, Santa Marta Bay" by Lorraine Caputo
Fishing the Dawn Day again breaks grey, briny mist rising from the wild sea. Into the froth a quartet wades, clad only in thin briefs,...
Jan 2, 20221 min read
"Nights Like These" by Kyla Houbolt
Awoke at 12:12 on the 12/12/21 and thought about words and how dogs laugh where we can see it and cats where we do not. The way ice cream...
Jan 2, 20222 min read
"Kendall Roy, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down" by Justin Karcher & Kristin Garth
I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me every night too much birthday in the big city the craziest year of my life & Kendall Roy that...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"Two Shades of Green" and "My Favourite Number" by Lawrence Moore
Two Shades of Green Hopeful soul stands alone, calling to fate with come-hither eyes. Self-abandons at opening credits, never reviews the...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"Sexual Tension At The Mormon Teenage Nativity" by Kristin Garth
A Bible brond woman blows out unruly brunette hair, darkens your virgin eyelashes, light lengths, “who knew those were there.” Unholy...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"tanka for the stray cats outside my window" by Jack Apollo Hartley
porchlight-lit lovers, they spoon tabby over white— dream their own warm home. let the sun burn out, freeze black, so as not to...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"Between the Folds of Trauma" by Doryn Herbst
CW: Sexual abuse I listen to a survivor of incest telling an interviewer about how there were days when we would sit as a family for a TV...
Dec 19, 20213 min read
"blake's opinions over his digestif (strega)", "in the men's room"...by Adam Johnson
blake's opinions over his digestif (strega) they were sitting around after dinner his daughter told him that none of the girls in her...
Dec 19, 20212 min read
"Blue Fire", "Variation on Gwendolyn Brooks", and "Self-Portrait" by Ulyses Razo
Blue Fire When in the morning, the star grass Freezes like frostweed, I feel at home. Save for this brown button-up, which chokes Half my...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"3 Winter Poems" by Penny Sarmada
How would they know? in the moments before freezing to death warmth overcomes you like a blanket of acceptance like an embrace of...
Dec 19, 20212 min read
"The hunter is haunted", " I had hoped you were hiding", and "Lamentations" by Melody Wang
The hunter is haunted by images of a home he once knew, destroyed — a deconstructed fox hole, a pile of sticks and stones patiently...
Dec 19, 20212 min read
"Handyman Special" and "Cracking Eggs" by Matt McGuirk
Handyman Special Handyman Special: it’s just right for someone with a few skills, some time on their hands and some elbow grease. That...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"Two Returns to Water", "The Fire", and "The Other Sun" by Lauren Theresa
Two Returns to Water I’m so tired. I should be writing but instead I scan the room for spiders, the Adderall waxing off as the images...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"Maybe we weren't meant to witness" by Melody Wang
magnolia’s cream-mottled cheek marking yet another bygone era plunked into the abyss as sorrow burrows into our roots, unfurling our...
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