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"I Take Off My Shirt and She Giggles." by Joe Cottonwood
Trainee. Young woman—no, a girl in a lab coat. Treadmill, a stress test. Nervously she says Excuse me but I have to shave your chest hair...
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Nov 24, 20211 min read
"The Sparrow's Sister" by Robert Beveridge
I Wind over grain becomes you, ripples in rhythm under your skin, a sapling in the wind, its leaves in love with the pavement. II Each of...
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Nov 24, 20212 min read
Two poems by Irene Fick
My Mother Rose from the Dead days after mourners whispered and wailed their farewells. Her lungs were now pure, her mood magnanimous....
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Nov 24, 20211 min read
Two poems by Paul Ilechko
Event Horizon What exactly is an event horizon she asked but he had no explanation the two words seemingly irreconcilable one of them...
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Nov 24, 20211 min read
"Like a Poet" by Brian Kates
A red-capped woodpecker jabs his insistent beak into the birdfeeder outside my kitchen window, taking what he needs from what he finds,...
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Nov 24, 20211 min read
Two poems by Ray Malone
Borrowed form 11 Then there was what to do. So long alone with the lines. Let go. Watch them wither. Wilt. To a stop. Stare at the ones...
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Nov 24, 20212 min read
Three poems by Jeremy Rock
Semantic “And if the blood/ on your hands grows too dark,/ think of the bright pail of milk, its froth,/ how you made something good/...
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Nov 24, 20211 min read
Three poems by Louisa Schnaithmann
Driving Through Penn Valley On Our Way To View An Apartment The rain comes down in drenches, swells the banks of green streams below us....
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Nov 24, 20211 min read
"25" by Hannah Seo
25 The quarter is in my pocket now, knocking soundlessly between my fingers. It wants me to feel its worth, its weight. I will not...
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Nov 23, 20211 min read
"Тишина тяжелее моей жизни./Silence is Heavier Than My Life." by Ivan de Monbrison
Both Russian and English by the author Тишина тяжелее моей жизни. Я не пойду дальше. Я читаю книгу на русском и ничего не понимаю. Я...
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Nov 23, 20212 min read
Three poems by Sarah Brockhaus
Sonnet for Scabbing The flowers don’t give a fuck. They can’t fix this. Try to fight your skin off. Imagine how good it would finally...
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Sep 30, 20214 min read
Two poems by Phillip Shabazz
Beyond Gravity When stars fly as planned, I am not the bluest flame driven into the gutter glass of August. I stomach the bruised side of...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read
"My Grandmother Writes a Letter to Her Cousin, 1935" by Joyce Compton Brown
“And if we say An art is lost when it no longer knows How to teach a sorrow to speak, come, see The way we lost it: stacking letters in...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read
Two poems by Mark Danowsky
Repair after Tess Gallagher I love the little tips that would have pointed to his pockets & reading about women who would never want a...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read
Two poems by Charlotte Cosgrove
The Cold Catching Competition I did not catch this cold. You didn’t hurl it towards me like a rugby ball, Arms reflexive as it thundered...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read
Two poems by Karin Wraley Barbee
The Use of History Two stools and a man on one, his hands burned smooth and numb, printless. There’s free popcorn. The bartender fills...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read
"That Cat" by Carol Park
I scribble lines in my mind about the feline invading my backyard. How the white and turd brown thing leaves poop in my veggie garden,...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read
Two poems by Richard Peabody
The Plains Tiny bend in the road Split pea soup with Canadian bacon Naked Mountain wine No Paris in sight save Virginia Sassafras and...
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Aug 26, 20212 min read
Two poems by Cora McCann Liderbach
The Time Seemed Green for Going [A cento] Footsteps hurry toward beginning. The hidden dove’s troubled voice – beggar, thief, boatman,...
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Aug 26, 20212 min read
Two poems by David P. Kozinski
Heliotrope Until just now I had forgotten the name of the boraginaceous flower that turns always to the sun twining up a neighbor’s green...
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