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"b-side" by Valeria Turp-Balazs
crashed into the foreign door of a person i’ve met and i don’t know at all watched your hand around a mug and counted times you kept it...
Sep 24, 20241 min read


"Time", "Excitement Equals", & "The Find" by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
Time Time loops like scalloped embroidery; rises, billows, then rejoins its stem – like on the head of a blooming flower, each petal is...
Sep 24, 20242 min read


"Time is a Yellowing Thing" by Eric Subpar
Time is a white but yellowing thing. I’ve got an ibuprofen bottle packed with psilocybin And a mind packed to the brim with thoughts I...
Sep 24, 20241 min read


"I Waited for An Ice Age", "Concerning Thursday", "Between his legs" & "Meat Raffle" by Ewen Glass
I Waited For An Ice Age I was told it would come; as I closed my book amid strawberry vapours ready to leave two came at once yes to be...
Sep 3, 20241 min read


"Everything that’s influenced my work/me (After Rosemary Mayer)" by Tara Giancaspro
Leopard print Grease My small cat daughter, Simone Leather Sugar My large cat son, Lugosi The Tom of Finland men who live in my sinew and...
Sep 3, 20243 min read


"Defeated Bulbs" by Andrew Buckner
eternity beacons  a motorcycle cracks the crowd finds silence  the dark lamp sears white through dark days, bright nights  whispering...
Sep 3, 20241 min read


"Ever the Twain" by James B. Nicola
Mark Twain on growing old: Beats not. James B. Nicola is a returning contributor to RF. Â The latest three of his eight full-length...
Aug 18, 20241 min read


"Sonnet for a Real Slag","Classy Birds", "Eating In", "Subchorionic Hematoma" & "After Swimming" by Katie Beswick
Sonnet for a Real Slag One day, she’s gonna be obese, that slag. Salt and vinegar McCoy’s for breakfast — pulls at your bedsheets like...
Aug 18, 20243 min read


"Found", "Nothing" & "All Things" by Allison Thung
Found I Unmoored by spectacles, my features float like boats adrift in the vast ocean of my face. From land—claims that shadow...
Aug 18, 20242 min read


"Shadow Boxers" & "In the Leaving" by James Lilliefors
Shadow Boxers Here again, that strange time of day          when certain shadows of the past meet less-than-certain shadows of the...
Aug 18, 20242 min read


"My Side of The Bed" by Tim Moder
I feel your fingers work my hair like a jar of butterflies. You’re laying sideways on my pillow and you worry I won’t feel you. Just your...
Aug 4, 20241 min read


"The Irony in Feeling Small and Seeing a Shrink" by Nicholas Grooms
Tried and true fashions never seem to be in not on catwalks or clothed mannequins a juice cleanse and diet pill racket spamming your...
Aug 4, 20242 min read


"Reincarnation", "We Don't Always Choose who We Love", "The Passing of the Night", "Copperhead", & "It's Hard to Do Right by Everyone" by Steve Passey
Reincarnation There is, in a small city in Michigan, an old man sitting in an old chair in his living room. He is pleased with his bowel...
Aug 4, 20242 min read


"High Desert", "Love Poem on a Glacier", & "Fifth Water" by Melissa Jean
HIGH DESERT Dusk, and the moon is three-quarters full and bright as a harpsichord note in the sky. And lightning flashes on both horizons...
Aug 4, 20242 min read


"supermoon aubade", "unraveling" & "eucalyptus" by Elle Cantwell
supermoon aubade before the iron sky turns amaranth & the morning star peeks through the blinds i watch you sleep/follow the fall and...
Aug 4, 20242 min read


"This One's For Us" by Terri Linn Davis
The first night we met, we lay under your freshly laundered bed sheets, and you showed me your yearbook, named all the strangers for me...
Aug 4, 20241 min read
!["We Were Twisted Ladders" & "The Hollows for the [Motherless] Stars" by Leslie Cairns](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/56019e_fe4e75bf2c65405b83e5fe10f370c788~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/56019e_fe4e75bf2c65405b83e5fe10f370c788~mv2.webp)
!["We Were Twisted Ladders" & "The Hollows for the [Motherless] Stars" by Leslie Cairns](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/56019e_fe4e75bf2c65405b83e5fe10f370c788~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/56019e_fe4e75bf2c65405b83e5fe10f370c788~mv2.webp)
"We Were Twisted Ladders" & "The Hollows for the [Motherless] Stars" by Leslie Cairns
We Were Twisted Ladders DNA Stores memory; I wonder what my body thinks of me. A molecular blueprint– Find me where the veins meet...
Jul 21, 20243 min read


"Little Ghost" by Jess Levens
It’s the morning after—she and I cry on the couch, cuddled, sobbing silently, save for shuddered breaths and hitching sniffles. Your...
Jul 21, 20241 min read


"EXSANGUINATE", "ZODIACAL", & "WHODUNNIT" by Lindsay McLeod
EXSANGUINATE Well Hell, I didn't even know that sacrifice was expected until my sacrifice was made when it sprang monstrous and bikini...
Jul 21, 20241 min read
!["monday and then tuesday", "unemployment", "ode to stupid boys" & "[unrelenting]" by Michy Woodward](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/56019e_4673272513114f5d813d1354225fc5e4~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/56019e_4673272513114f5d813d1354225fc5e4~mv2.webp)
!["monday and then tuesday", "unemployment", "ode to stupid boys" & "[unrelenting]" by Michy Woodward](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/56019e_4673272513114f5d813d1354225fc5e4~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/56019e_4673272513114f5d813d1354225fc5e4~mv2.webp)
"monday and then tuesday", "unemployment", "ode to stupid boys" & "[unrelenting]" by Michy Woodward
monday and then tuesday whole milk french style yogurt at noon the departure of moldy raspberries my lawyer is calling, i’m napping, do...
Jul 21, 20244 min read
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