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Two poems by Rizwan Akhtar
Behind Birds are Poems How birds choose to break the silence dropping from leaves of trees themselves so alone like unfinished sentences...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
"Betty’s Current Status" by Paul Jones
I’ve got a boombox I bought in 1985. I only play two tapes, Beastie Boys and Nine to Five. I found it in the attic when I finally got...
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Three poems by Kevin Roy
Godspeed I draw a tattoo of a vast octopus from Minoa on my flank, the sheltering arms, the eyes on eyes on eyes. Heat the waters until...
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Three Poems by Bryan Price
All My Friends measuring myself against photographs of people who look brushed against the grain of their own travails like they know...
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Three poems by Sara Youngblood Gregory
you say my name The only time you say my name is when you are furious the hard s is hot oil and smoke you push me in the shopping cart at...
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"At Times the Characters Will Be Unlikable " by Cal Freeman
The worm on the patio is bent like a yanked roofing nail. Glommed with little ants, it has no nerve center by which to feel the pain. But...
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Three poems by Terri Brown-Davidson
Tony Romeo’s Rose Period at the Fair In Ayn Rand’s hierarchy, geniuses prevail. There’s never a second ranking, back-up men talented...
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Four poems by John A. Nieves
To Sampson from the Back Porch Dear Mr. Hat, How do we talk now across this path from renovated to American burnweed bed to worn to...
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"Orangeskin" by DS Maolali
peeling like clothing, revealing the shoulders and that line between armpit and arm and the side of the torso, the ribrippled skin and...
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Two poems by Hibah Shabkhez
Essay Skeletons Still they haunt us, the fluffy uninked ghosts Of ideas that fall by the wayside When we whittle down their fluttering...
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"My Niece Has a Baby During the Pandemic"by Dell Lemmon
A pandemic spreads across the globe. At first, I stay in the city. A child is born. I have better technology in the city. It was a...
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Two poems by Marge Piercy
Cellar Holes Anemones sprinkle the cold ground A scattering of pale blue stars. They multiply every year. Daffodils wave their trumpets...
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Two poems by J.B. Stone
Ode to Love Handles when your teeth resemble mangled accordion keys, tendril curls jangled & jumbled around the top of your skull, the...
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Five poems by Quinn Carver Johnson and Todd Fuller
Providence Perhaps those footsteps outside the door are clouds come to pawn sunny days for Midwest thunderstorms— On the electronics...
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Three poems by Martin Willitts Jr
When Day Breaks and Recovers He lip-read each individual snowflake’s message. He had to trust he was in tune, his memory-fingers finding...
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"A Sublunary Strip " by Robinson Terry
The flies congregate in The corner of the sunroom Around the amber strip of Collective death. As they circle the deathly Stripe that is...
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Five poems by Simon Perchick
* You squint as if its cries could fit and in the same pot this egg lowered to the bottom –each wave learns from the others just how much...
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"A Walk in the Park" by Robert Angell
Before the AIDS vigil, a stranger showed me how to poke a hole in the bottom of the paper cup and slowly slide the candle through so the...
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Two poems by Bruce Spang
X Marks the Heart My best friend called his former wife his “X” as if, by divorcing her, he’d rendered her to a box on a tax form that...
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"My Body is a Flawless Ceremony" by Liz Holland
I walked down the church aisle second in line seven years old, pristine white veil, shouting of my temporary innocence. The candle sat...
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