poetry 7/38

Feb 182 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...

"St. Xavier’s Academy" & "Don’t Mess With Texas" by Sumit Parikh

Feb 181 min read

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"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...

"A Week After" by Sally Anderson Boström

Feb 181 min read

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"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 181 min read

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"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...

"The Kid Must See With Unbonneted Eyes" by Jesse Hilson

Feb 182 min read

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"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...

"Chaos Space Marines" by Jubilee Finnegan

Feb 182 min read

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"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...

"Let me tell you a secret:", "Encore: Ten definitions of nostalgia" & "Fire/light after the riot" by Daniel Seifert

Feb 182 min read

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"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...

"The Titillation", "Mistral", "Moody Swamp" & "As The Memory's Vultures Circle" by Kushal Poddar

Feb 42 min read

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"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...

"After First Frost" & "Subdivisions" by Sam Calhoun

Feb 41 min read

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"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...

"Everybody Knows" & "Fatal Flaws" by Richard-Yves Sitoski

Feb 42 min read

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"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...

"Grasshopper" by Courtenay Schembri Gray

Feb 41 min read

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"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...

"This is Not Another Poem About the Moon", "Winter Landscape No. 3" & "Fifth Season" by Sarah Mills

Feb 43 min read

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"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...

"Finished in Dreams", "Hamlet In A Climate", & "A Globe" by Dale Cottingham

Feb 44 min read

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"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 41 min read

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"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...

"THE SHED WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF MAN - MY FATHERS LAST RESTING PLACE." by Zoe Davis

Feb 42 min read

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"THE SHED WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF MAN - MY FATHERS LAST RESTING PLACE." by Zoe Davis

It was raining when I gutted the shed, crystal balls swinging from spider’s webs long vacated, crusty arachnid shells punctuating graves...

"Night Portrait of The Fisher Building" by James Schwartz

Feb 41 min read

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"Night Portrait of The Fisher Building" by James Schwartz

Spires & Skyscrapers are Shrouded in November fog Rolling in with Techno from traffic from down river Obscuring the Boulevard &...

Feb 41 min read

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"Eye Opener" by JD Clapp

He’d pushed his cart to the 6:00 a.m. bar, just down the dirty boulevard, to escape the cold, and the dark clouds building out east and...

"Unboxed" & "Third-Person Self-Portrait" by Andrew Buckner

Jan 283 min read

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"Unboxed" & "Third-Person Self-Portrait" by Andrew Buckner

Unboxed As if returning a forgotten memory, like an abandoned child, Back to the banks of the subconscious which violently pushed it,...

"The Curse" & "Summer Is Another Clichè" by Mikal Wix

Jan 212 min read

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"The Curse" & "Summer Is Another Clichè" by Mikal Wix

The Curse In the smoke of his words comes a sign that we can’t sleep anymore under the calm dome of the moon when auburn wildfires race...

"You Can't Know Unless You Murder Someone" by Matthew King

Jan 211 min read

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"You Can't Know Unless You Murder Someone" by Matthew King

A lot of things, you found, were a lot like murdering someone. You tried very hard for a long time to avoid murdering anyone but then you...