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Mar 3, 20241 min read
"fisherman", "iscariot online" & "indian summer" by J. R. Wilkerson
fisherman he is only seen in flashes, gold thrashes on the line, reeling it was not he who was found, so cold to the touch, that sallow...

Mar 3, 20242 min read
"Whimsy", "Offshoots", "Turn Up" & "First Cousin" by Susan Shea
Whimsy The day I saw the life-like parrot swaying on a string in front of your kitchen window I knew you had made a pivot in the cage...

Mar 3, 20242 min read
"Disney’s recycled animations" & "SPOF" by Mike Santora
Disney’s recycled animations It’s been said that Woolie Reitherman had the cels of those scenes drawn over each other because it had...

Mar 3, 20242 min read
"Plumb or Plum?", "Kansas Clouds", "Staring at the Ceiling", & "Cupcake Land" by Jason Ryberg
Plumb or Plum? There, just outside my living room window, are six standard issue, old school mailboxes fixed on top of six wooden posts...

Mar 3, 20243 min read
"Novel in the Making", "Triste", "One Night a Bear", & "Smiling Fish" by Laurie Kuntz
Novel in the Making The story is short, and not very novel. A man and a woman, both brisk as cloud breaks: The woman is not bad, but...

Mar 3, 20241 min read
"my friends show up to my wake" by Berin Aptoula
Both a cartoonist and writer, Berin Aptoula holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University, where she also teaches. If you’re...

Feb 18, 20242 min read
"Her Name is Grace" & "Ready, Now" by Karen Grose
Her Name is Grace She sits on top of a mountain, crosses her legs and bounces a free foot in the air, fields are barren in the valley...

Feb 18, 20241 min read
"St. Xavier’s Academy" & "Don’t Mess With Texas" by Sumit Parikh
ST. XAVIER’S ACADEMY The nun’s wooden ruler so big and white against my scrawny brown hands when my mind was enjoying the sleepy sky a...

Feb 18, 20241 min read
"A Week After" by Sally Anderson Boström
Over a low soft hill is a black forest. Weave your way through the dark tangles to the forest’s heart. There springs a river of blood and...

Feb 18, 20241 min read
"Hanks" by Sanjeev Sethi
It may be directed by a hive mind or synergist contrary to my cogitation, but that doesn’t diminish its dignity. Those eyes tune in...

Feb 18, 20242 min read
"The Kid Must See With Unbonneted Eyes" by Jesse Hilson
I drop our daughter off at your house After my weekend visit. The small talk we make at the foot of the stairs Just isn't easy, now is...

Feb 18, 20242 min read
"Chaos Space Marines" by Jubilee Finnegan
Some nights I just want to talk to you. Get a true sense of us. Learn the ins and outs of your childhood stories. Take a brisk walk...

Feb 18, 20242 min read
"Let me tell you a secret:", "Encore: Ten definitions of nostalgia" & "Fire/light after the riot" by Daniel Seifert
Let me tell you a secret: When I’m old with a mouth like a gravestone party(all tilted teeth and mossy gums)I’ll still know your face...

Feb 4, 20242 min read
"The Titillation", "Mistral", "Moody Swamp" & "As The Memory's Vultures Circle" by Kushal Poddar
The Titillation A bird has left an azure feather on our cold red cement sill. It corroborates the curiosity's tale about the bird, about...

Feb 4, 20241 min read
"After First Frost" & "Subdivisions" by Sam Calhoun
After First Frost Let’s be unrealistic. I’ll pretend the armadillo isn’t dead in the ditch, it’s half burrowed hole beneath the hostas...

Feb 4, 20242 min read
"Everybody Knows" & "Fatal Flaws" by Richard-Yves Sitoski
Everybody Knows In childhood father said I was indelicate, clumsy, straw bristles for digits and feet like oil drums. About these things...

Feb 4, 20241 min read
"Grasshopper" by Courtenay Schembri Gray
Within the cocktail of sound, the only thing I hear is a car tyre grinding my bones into a fine powder. To be exhaled by rigid...

Feb 4, 20243 min read
"This is Not Another Poem About the Moon", "Winter Landscape No. 3" & "Fifth Season" by Sarah Mills
This Is Not Another Poem About the Moon The next blue supermoon won’t come until 2037, and by then, we may be gone. Have you thought...

Feb 4, 20244 min read
"Finished in Dreams", "Hamlet In A Climate", & "A Globe" by Dale Cottingham
Finished in Dreams Deduction of the general from the specific is no longer needed, the evidence is in— The ice caps are melting, oceans...

Feb 4, 20241 min read
"Us Someday" by Jason Melvin
sitting poolside at a Dominican resort an older couple guessing mid-80’s shuffles by my wife turns to me and asks will that be us...
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