poetry 5/38

May 42 min read

"Fruit Meal", "This Was California", & "To Alice Munro" by Alison Hicks

FRUIT MEAL blue curtains watery fields night falling entire meal of fruit somewhere in The Netherlands my mother said cut boiled...

May 42 min read

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"Ethel" by Ian Anthony Lawless

I remember birdsong so loud, maybe the starlings thought I had crusts from another hastily made breakfast, Just to say to myself I had...

"Palmetto Girl" & "Losing Touch" by Katie Cisar

May 41 min read

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"Palmetto Girl" & "Losing Touch" by Katie Cisar

Palmetto Girl golden summer baby with blue sky in your eyes and butterscotch lipgloss put on to be kissed off. there’s saltwater in your...

"lucid", "inside flat 7" & "deviant vellum (other flammable narrative wrappings are also available)" by Jane Ayres

May 42 min read

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"lucid", "inside flat 7" & "deviant vellum (other flammable narrative wrappings are also available)" by Jane Ayres

lucid linen words like sugared twine twice pilfered filtered words flit filleted hung out to dry with the angels beneath my skin liminal...

"I’ll Be There for You When the Rain Starts to Pour", "Until Lust Comes Around Again", "Slumlords a Thousand Miles Away", & "New Shit" by Justin Karcher

May 42 min read

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"I’ll Be There for You When the Rain Starts to Pour", "Until Lust Comes Around Again", "Slumlords a Thousand Miles Away", & "New Shit" by Justin Karcher

I’ll Be There for You When the Rain Starts to Pour A few days before Halloween we’re getting high in an Ellicottville Airbnb when the...

May 42 min read

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"And So I Lay" by David Henderson

And so I lay. Off lively path. Driftin' in et out of day, Last and lonely sound, my laugh, Come the Raven, blackest of wings Claws cave,...

"Things You Have To Do" & "Opposite, The Same" by Christine Potter

May 42 min read

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"Things You Have To Do" & "Opposite, The Same" by Christine Potter

Things You Have To Do Throw rocks in the river, even if you don’t have kids along. Not the small, flat stones meant for skipping: find a...

May 42 min read

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"Two Edens" by Simon Leonard

Residual feelings The day before Eden ended, she spent mostly staring out of windows, observing stretch marks scar the sky, trees hunker...

"Coordinates of Relief and Anxiety" by Shikha Valsalan

May 41 min read

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"Coordinates of Relief and Anxiety" by Shikha Valsalan

I see her in my bed, her body a few inches away from mine. Almost as tall as me, but not quite yet. She is fast asleep. Hands clasped...

May 42 min read

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"Moments in Seashells" by Andrea Damic

Inspired by the painting Beklemek (meaning: to wait), by Müfide Kadri (Turkey), 1890-1912 we feel it on our skin / the silvery powder...

"Seventh-Inning Stretch," "Home Run," & "Spring Ball" by Jared Povanda

May 42 min read

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"Seventh-Inning Stretch," "Home Run," & "Spring Ball" by Jared Povanda

Seventh-Inning Stretch Horn-rimmed glasses and pants pressed free of creases. My arms around your middle, chin cradled by your shoulder....

"Prozac Ocean" & "I Remember the Dolphin Tattoo On Your Shoulder Blade" by Joe Barca

May 41 min read

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"Prozac Ocean" & "I Remember the Dolphin Tattoo On Your Shoulder Blade" by Joe Barca

Prozac Ocean the land is too small people tend to crowd the tide speaks to me in rhythmic intonations I spend time with fulmars, gulls,...

"To Jessica Schwartz, From Your Designated Demon:" by Katherine Schmidt & Natalie Wolf

Mar 312 min read

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"To Jessica Schwartz, From Your Designated Demon:" by Katherine Schmidt & Natalie Wolf

To Jessica Schwartz, From Your Designated Demon: In 6,000 years of existence, I have never had anyone summon me over 200 times in a...

Mar 311 min read

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"[A Continuous Note]" by Ray Corvi

A continuous note Played on a violin Suddenly stops For a moment It even looked As if I wouldn’t bleed Then the marionette climbs back up...

"and yes, I believe that somewhere still, my reflection is walking away from me" by Megan Busbice

Mar 311 min read

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"and yes, I believe that somewhere still, my reflection is walking away from me" by Megan Busbice

The black-and-white corridor smells of the memory of cigarettes, parables of ash caught above the coating of clorox. each step documents...

Mar 311 min read

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"Enough" by Ralph Culver

In barely a whisper he muttered the cat’s name. She sat, ignoring him, by the sliding glass doors in the dining room, where out in the...

"It’s On Its Way To Me Now" by Melissa Bernal Austin

Mar 311 min read

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"It’s On Its Way To Me Now" by Melissa Bernal Austin

It’s nighttime, and I sit wondering if I might be serial killered out here in my own backyard. It’s unlikely, I know. So I remind myself,...

Mar 312 min read

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"Vascular System" by Travis Nichols

Maybe I’ll never die. Or maybe I will. Unknown pulses push through the space I’m also in. Thank you. Love is different than I expected....

"It Is Winter, I Had No Choice" by Israel Okonji

Mar 312 min read

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"It Is Winter, I Had No Choice" by Israel Okonji

the irregularity of monotonousness is now absorbed. the obduracy observed from white paper that was glued to its kind did not...

Mar 311 min read

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"Joyride" by Maxine Chen

I leapt out my bedroom window onto my Nimbus 2000. A couple putting up pictures of their son. The bobbing of a go-getter on her daily...