My Father Died When I Was Six Months Old by John Grey
I never did learn to bake cookies, not at nine-years-old, not even at twenty-nine. I didn’t squeeze dough, stir it in the mixing bowl. I...
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- Jan 4
- 1 min
Comatose by Daphne Harries
and i wonder how branches can be so tall and yet so low, but then again i’m on the ground, pair of birds have begun to nest for spring....
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Guinevere Gets a Goodnight Text From Lancelot by Megan Mary Moore
Betrayal is too big a word for me to hold; it spills through my fingers stains my dress, my bed. So I sip it, slow like tea, still wake...
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
A Noisy Silence by Lee Serna
I was hurt And you were there Standing in a noisy silence With the pain I gave you to bear You tensed in anger of love Faded faintly your...
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
The Opposite of Aubade by Zackary Sholem Berger
Is the moonless night's strained dichotomy. I'm either An alpinist in expressive heights entrained, Or distribution of ripples in the...
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Beverage of Choice by Thomas Keith
once we were poor but love-drunk ginger ale was our wine you would swirl it slowly let it catch the light and say ah canned three months...
- Nov 12, 2022
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Black Velvet by Sarah Henry
Black was the color of the velvet skirt I wore to attend a lovely church. A bishop gave God’s blessing. Black was the color of the velvet...
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
Say Their Names by Taylor Thomas
.I am told I should be grateful, despite my blisters open, seeping rancid wet into my other open wounds. The smell of decay, I’m sorry...
- Nov 8, 2022
- 1 min
weeping one, oh soften those eyes by Eartha Davis
I do not know why the leaf was following me: perhaps she was trailing the filament of my song, and sensing, as those with earth veins do,...
- Nov 3, 2022
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A Few Flowers by Quattrochi
Poems come fast and slow lately, these days in the thirsty mornings or in the sting of lemon tea on my lips when I’m on my own at night....
- Nov 2, 2022
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At the oracle by Paweł Markiewicz
God Alpheus was at the Pythia. He needed a plethora of feelings. She looked at the ancient amphora. Eudemonia would be clear in dreams....
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
A Little History of Warfare by William Doreski
Halfway across Main at dusk I stall in the flare of your headlights You’re driving too fast with your hair aflame and vodka soiling your...
- Oct 20, 2022
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who put bella in the wych elm tree? by Natalie D.C.
it was me // so take me back to a cool winter’s eve spent playing hide-&-seek with a Nazi spy // a far cry from the 5-foot-nothing fairy...
- Oct 17, 2022
- 1 min
Reasons by Komal Ishtiaq
Reasons are mere illusions To mask the excuses. Reasons to diet, Reasons to pass, Reason to come, Reasons to go. These reasons definitely...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Weirdos by Dia VanGunten
On our first date, he offers a beribboned bouquet. Proteas. I nuzzle their fuzzy guts. Points for thoughtfulness, cleverness, awareness....
- Sep 30, 2022
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Aging by Anastasia Kimm
I fear I will get too old and leave you somewhere in my 1982 I don’t have fun like i used to, I just sit and drink in my bedroom- I’ll...
- Sep 30, 2022
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SEÁN ÓG by Lee Eustace
Individual cereal boxes made it feel like a hotel. A different bed, a different voice and a strange sounding doorbell. But what could be...
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