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Mar 31, 20241 min read
"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 31, 20241 min read
"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...

Mar 31, 20241 min read
"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 31, 20242 min read
"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....

Mar 31, 20242 min read
"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 31, 20241 min read
"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...

Mar 31, 20242 min read
"Black Moon Lilith", "Where is the Center of Gravity?", "Pilgrimage in the Shape of a Prayer" & "As the Earth Does Her Dance With the Sun" by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
A Word from the Poet: My poem “Madelyn Dunham, Passing On” won first prize in the Obama Millennium Contest. I also have won the Blue...

Mar 31, 20241 min read
"Old Royal Oak" by C.C. Apap
once, wandering a half-dressed, bare street—lithe and light, she led me to a bench. and forever we sat in the warm dusk, before I had the...

Mar 31, 20242 min read
"nobody told me being sober sucks" by Jack Moody
they didn’t they lied the sun would burn brighter and mornings would sail along like a great enveloping soul they said that nights would...

Mar 17, 20243 min read
"Hemingway" by Mauricio Velazquez
Hemingway could not grab a shotgun and shoot himself. He lacked the arms to do so. His namesake would be horrified at the circumstances....

Mar 17, 20242 min read
"Heartbreak in All Forms" & "Journey of Tears" by Ashlee Hoskins
Heartbreak in All Forms Heartbreak is more than just a lover. It comes in many shapes and sizes. Once from a favorite plate shattered in...

Mar 17, 20242 min read
"After the precondition" & "In the customary fashion" by Townes-Thomas
After the precondition A history of seedless planning resolved itself in purple sheets for local consul swaddling; the council...

Mar 17, 20242 min read
"Lost in the Forest", "Event Horizon", & "Volition" by Hossein Sobhani
Lost in the Forest Corsage curated for your chest, I am wearing emerald to match your eyes as we go in the forest for a walk. I point to...

Mar 17, 20243 min read
"Home Feeling", "House of Green Chairs", & "What Survives" by A. Jenson
Home Feeling I woke up to rain and pain in my stomach eagles chittering and a barge blare staring outside at the devouring grey bleeding...

Mar 17, 20242 min read
"Grief of Hands Burned to Dust" & "Boroughs" by Mirm Hurula
Grief of Hands Burned to Dust I just thought about how I won’t hold your hand again the wrinkles all over each knuckle you’ve been using...

Mar 17, 20242 min read
"Marriage Counseling Over a Game of Go" & "Video Games" by Alex Carrigan
Marriage Counseling Over a Game of Go There are 391 points on this Go board for us to position where we feel our most confident. Where we...

Mar 3, 20242 min read
"Inherited Memory: Back from the Mikveh" & "Avalanche" by Laura C Lippman
INHERITED MEMORY: BACK FROM THE MIKVEH Setting: penumbra of lamplight, clothed in warm flannel, back from the mikveh, my bleeding done....

Mar 3, 20243 min read
"Anniversary", "When I Say Loneliness", "Art + Pain > No Pain, No Art", & "Psychic" by Danielle Lisa
ANNIVERSARY I stick my thumb out and demand a ride. It’s our anniversary. Of the day we died in our last lives. I want to celebrate with...

Mar 3, 20241 min read
"I Don’t Have a Gondola or An Oar or Money to Pay a Gondolier" by Matthew Isaac Sobin
So I’ve been wandering sodden streets, crossing narrow bridges. It shouldn't be any great surprise that I’m lost in Venice. It’s the...

Mar 3, 20242 min read
"The Resounding Silence" & "Broken Mug" by Claudia Wysocky
The Resounding Silence The silence was resounding— Stifling as it crept into my every thought. The silence was all consuming— Reshaping...
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