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Nov 28, 20211 min read

"Mare", "Gods and Prophets", and "Uninvited" by Katrina Kaye

Mare Time whispers a voice honeyed jasmine thick with moss. She has grown old against the evening sun, enveloped in the dust of dusk. In...

Nov 28, 20212 min read

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"This bathroom is really a spy room" and "Firetrucking Brickhead" by Jason Melvin

This bathroom is really a spy room As I shut the door, it’s evident. I can hear the entire bar, every conversation. A cacophony of...

Nov 14, 20212 min read

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"One Won’t Hurt" and "Song" by Joe Haward

One Won’t Hurt Five seconds temptation to regret. Ten years building home/family/pride/somebodiness foundations only 40% proof. Flooded...

Nov 14, 20213 min read

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"irreconcilable breakdown", "the falling out between Kaye Swiss, Esq."...by Adam Johnson

irreconcilable breakdown my wife told me to take a bath then she handed me a folding knife and told me to do it right this time you see...

Nov 14, 20211 min read

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"A Walk into Light", "All the Skin I Have", and "Making Jelly" by Marie Little

A Walk into Light Midnight trails between my toes, I pace the garden’s perimeter, as if mapping a treasure hunt, squirrelling eggs. This...

Nov 14, 20212 min read

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"The Toll of Fame" and "Repository, or a New Prayer" by Jared Povanda

The Toll of Fame Loki has traveled to Iceland again. Loki is not, technically, at home in Iceland, but it feels right. Better than most...

Nov 14, 20212 min read

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"All Things Are Poison, And Nothing Is", "Dwarf Planet"...by Hibah Shabkhez

All Things Are Poison, And Nothing Is The sleek silhouettes and tips of their words Dropped like wrappers on footpaths in the night Go...

Nov 14, 20212 min read

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"Sister" and "The Healing Clock" by David Estringel

Sister How regally you sit in funerary black— a touch of blush, collar, torn, and lips, naked as the day you were born— by the wedding...

Nov 14, 20212 min read

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"map (of) rust", "my morning mother", and "anxiously at the wound" by john compton

map (of) rust i rode the wings of the great beast: you. in time, in turn, your hopeless melody— you sit in the dandelion skulls with...

Nov 14, 20211 min read

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"She Wears a Blue Bandana" and "House of India #60" by Glen Armstrong

She Wears a Blue Bandana and uses the phrase “on the lamb” to describe most anything: Her legal status. Her state of mind. Her...

Oct 30, 20211 min read

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"thing heaven" and "forest before daybreak" by finn carpenter

thing heaven piled errata skinned bones and erotic mystery mags hissing spilling spitting and crawling mounded too tall objects...

Oct 30, 20211 min read

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"Days of 2021" by Matthew James Hodgson

Dare not I yet impose an unfit form, Dreaming away at the two photographs Compared (three years apart) with a heavy head. Across the...

Oct 30, 20212 min read

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"Salem Song", "Viable Organ", and "The Weight of Skipping Stones" by Laura Ingram

Salem Song October’s losing its dull yellow teeth mother of field mice, queen of chrysanthemum dead flowers clutched in clenched fist in...

Oct 30, 20211 min read

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"petrology" and "acrostic for human-lion relations" by Liam Burke

petrology maybe you determined inert at flatline maybe topography never the way you wanted flat water table immersing your mouth ...

Oct 30, 20211 min read

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"This Happens To Us All, But This Time It Happened To Me" by Camille Lewis

I tell my therapist that I connected with someone. No, I mean we really, unequivocally, like, went together, I tell her. Now they leave...

Oct 30, 20211 min read

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"lease renewal", velocity of grief", and "coda" by William Davis

lease renewal what can we lay upon our hands those husking calliopes, generous mouth that leans to yes & tremor, the fold and flutter...

Oct 16, 20212 min read

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"Eulogy" and "Stay here as long as you can" by Ryan Westmoreland

Eulogy As big as his mammoth body is; Pot-bellied and 6’2”, I still think his presence is bigger. Highly Opinionated, Gap-Toothed,...

Oct 16, 20212 min read

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"All at sea", "On the breeze", and "Longshore drift" by Katy Naylor

All at sea High up in the crow's nest foam corkscrews below One more minute and the waters will split the great snake's tail slice...

Oct 16, 20211 min read

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"Sprite", "Portrait of a Lady in a Walmart Parking Lot, and "Hollywood Dreams" by Emm Corcoran

Sprite I imagine: shrinking so small to fit inside of a rose, I feel the soft petals against my skin & the intoxicating scent - pink...