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Two poems by Brian Rihlmann
Night’s Grace a predawn Sunday morning the beauty of the still slumbering city her neon streets placid and empty as the face of a woman...
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Apr 1, 20211 min read
Five poems by Adam Day
Doing Nothing The sun has gone underground, but the authorities will find it. To Be Here Yellow leaf thinly slow-flies shallow serpentine...
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Apr 1, 20211 min read
"Story" by Brian McCabe
I lay awake in bed, listening to the wind with the night like something dropped from some great height through the house. I sneak down...
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Apr 1, 20211 min read
"Spring in London" by Andrew Hanson
Tree-limbs lavishly people Russel square while rootless students bury into the other or into binders. Errant puffs of pollen eddy about,...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
Two poems by Andrew Szilvasy
An Unseen Woman’s Scream Wakes Ghosts Near Daybreak All the house’s Argus-eyes are open, so that, high-pitched but breaking, it bursts in...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
Two poems by Alan Perry
Traveling Water Near Newfoundland’s coast humpbacks explode from water, skybound missiles in pirouettes off the bow of a fishing boat,...
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Mar 13, 20215 min read
Four poems by Alexandria Peary
Analysis of A Poem on the Tablecloth I.e.: Cezanne apples, Botero oranges, Roy Lichtenstein grapes, Williams plums, a Gertrude Stein...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
"Wake-up Call" by Lee Woodman
Proud cocks crow in the Caribbean morn, muezzins call flocks to worship, lighthouse strobes flash danger. We sleep with our backs turned,...
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Mar 5, 20213 min read
Four poems by Katherine J. Williams
Evensong When the blue shadow of the elm edges across the lawn, we head to the woods, my hand in the hard smoky hand above me. Sounds of...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
Two poems by Julian Koslow
Seizure 6AM. Morse code tapping collect from the underworld. I cling to sleep, clutch at dream’s empty cape. The boy lies next to me,...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
"A Hair Raising Scheme" by Joe Sonnenblick
Crossing that same river as Washington, I don’t feel as accomplished, I’m in a car with a woman who just spent forty-five minutes calling...
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Mar 5, 20212 min read
Three poems by Cameron Morse
Stiletto from stylus writing utensil once applied to wax tablet incises its blunt end rubs out an endless erasure * Gary Snyder: the...
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Mar 5, 20212 min read
Three poems by Benjamin Cutler
The Boy Who Hunts out of season tells me the fatty meat behind a deer’s eye, if eaten raw and right after the kill, tastes like dough—and...
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Jan 6, 20211 min read
Two poems by Mark Danowsky
Orange Ceramic Geckos I agree to meet with your boyfriend after your death We go from coffeeshop to Mexican restaurant Because he tells...
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Dec 24, 20202 min read
Two poems by Steve Henn
Are You Picking Up What I’m Putting Down? My GF tells me her new friend likes to lift I say I prefer to put down. Not to criticize your...
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Dec 24, 20203 min read
Three poems by Rodd Whelpley
A house is a thing you leave empty most of the day, except the dog who spits liquid on the bamboo floor, upset the moment you depart,...
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Dec 24, 20202 min read
Two poems by Robert Strickland
The Literate City “The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise...
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Dec 24, 20203 min read
"Black as I am" by Obediah Michael Smith
[Zindsi Mandela, 23 December 1960 to 13 July 2020] how like a plant she was how just planted she was when, in 1978, her book of poems,...
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Dec 24, 20202 min read
Two poems by Morgan Golladay
Old Tools When I loaded the tools into the back of the car, the shovels’ polished handles and sharpened blades, the rakes, splayed with...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Asphyxiation" by Michael Estabrook
She insists she was in the room witnessed her mother kneel on the floor stick her head in the oven after turning on the gas asphyxiating...
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