"PUNICA GRANATUM" by G.L. Maverick
only the finest of china for this trauma so i grab the best of my mother’s bowls wash it twice with wine & honey before chipping teeth on...
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- Jan 8
- 2 min
"We Watched a Dog Die on the Weekend of a Wedding" & "A Waking Thought" by Aaron G. H.
We Watched a Dog Die on the Weekend of a Wedding We sat -my daughter and I- on a park bench eating a snack. A treat after a long walk; a...
- Jan 8
- 1 min
"Trick Grammar" by Alison Heron Hruby
after the song “Pink Venom” by BLACKPINK Thick edge of paradox no other appeal to sex quite as persuasive: four women sing syllepsis,...
- Jan 8
- 2 min
"the rose colored villa" by w v sutra
all green was the name in the house where they lived rose colored it was and full of anxiety hamlet and papa hamlet fell out because...
- Jan 8
- 1 min
"Threnody" by Romain P.-A. Delpeuch
Then, slumber wrapped my brain in fog. The sun, in hiding, shrouded black, escaped my reach. Atop secluded heights it shone for others,...
- Jan 8
- 2 min
"brain games" & "december" by Samantha Rowling
brain games With a tiny little hammer And a tiny little chisel I am going to straddle you (The way you like) And crack open your skull...
- Jan 8
- 1 min
"The Truth About Lairs" by Jonathan Petley
I’d dupe them all with my clever green disguise, A mere man, mingling among brooding beasts. No—it was worse. For the bar was cursed, A...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 3 min
"Awakening," "Valentine," "Anniversary," & "Throne" by Siân Killingsworth
Awakening the bed shifts as we turn pastel sheets draped trailing to the floor like statuary a show of modesty overthrown the sun dazzles...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 3 min
"Before," "Amnesty," & "Brittney Griner Is Waiting To Be Free" by Joshua Merchant
Before when my mother is pregnant with my father’s first wish and second blessing, he doesn’t know how long the cab ride she called for...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
“Switching Gears” by Karen Grose
my brother is off to school, backpack over a shoulder eyes glued to the phone in hand white buds dangling from his ears. he doesn’t turn...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
"Moving day" by Simon Leonard
Cardboard boxes stacked high as the kitchen window, their open wings only fit for the kid to fly past the original lino floor, back when...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
"Recipe" by Michael Pollentine
Something my wife Pointed Out Last night: More of my friends Are dead Than alive. It is common Stains Decrease Yet I am only 41. More of...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
“circles” & “in Oz” by George Taxon
circles edging out the spaces the circles are going nowhere a pixel paces it- self unable to walk a straight line I think I’d run circles...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
"White Lilies" by Anne Whitehouse
The heavy fragrance of the white Casablanca Lily mingling with the white Baferrari Lily blooming in the ninety-degree heat of my July...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
"Snapdragons" by Grant Young
Snapdragons are killer curveballs a violent wrist twist to reap a white terror, red stitching slicing sky, bending air, bursting ash a...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
"Being a better kind of ghost," "The Promise of rain," & "Opening night" by Gavin Turner
Being a better kind of ghost Due to the high levels of domestic accident these days, There’s a chance that I might be a newly formed...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
“Hibernation Comfort" & “Fields Where We Belong” by Kushal Poddar
Hibernation Comfort No one possesses this road this early. The juxtaposition of ebony tar and light, and the uneven patches where monsoon...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
"The eleventh month" & "Reserve" by Dave Nash
The eleventh month After the all the casting and the punditry We return to our yards: manicured and plain, Ignore the stray wrappers...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
"Lurk & other undead darlings" by Jess Levens
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- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
"Phantom Pain", "Scrooge McDuck", & "Friendshipstein" by Kyle Solomon
Phantom Pain The little things like sitting on Zelda's Title Screen. That sad piano title theme. Pop Art, Pop-tart, spring out the...
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