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Three poems by Michelle Disler
Dossier, Bond James (j) Mad Libs Bond Can be prudent and blunt, taciturn and motionless. Prefers to remain undisturbed. Prefers the use...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Instinct Control" by John Zedolik
Those two beagles would run if they could (forget us!) out of the coop across the yard over the creek and up into the woods dreaming...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Over Oysters" by Jessica Gregg
They wrangle over the rain tax, the veined pipelines beneath this bedrock democracy, climate change and the crumbling second-grade,...
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Dec 24, 20202 min read
Poems from Mistress by Chet’la Sebree
Bellovedere As a tampon bouquets in toilet water, I think of Bellovedere—a wine I tried on a Wednesday along with an Italian man’s mouth,...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Something" by Carolyn Cecil
I find myself in my daughter's basement with her baby, looking at a picture of me with her as a baby, and I don't know how I got here,...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Seclusion" by Bobbie Saunders
I am afraid of the moon these days, everything spinning Loneliness a weak companion to my state of panic Virus vaccine glimpse of the...
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Dec 24, 20202 min read
"Homo Sapien" by Ann Quinn
Indian summer, we used to call it, but now whenever the temperature hits ninety in October we see the future we’ve created. Meanwhile the...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Sweet Relief" by Thomas Mixon
I love the chasms the dogs body through the snow. First light finds excavators hirsute and, needing to pee, hurrying a channel they widen...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Finding My Way" by Richard Luftig
No one in town seems to know their way around these county roads that have only numbers for names, and about all the farmers can say for...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Balance" from Patrick Loudon
In excess she savored much; Learned deeply, treasured little. Brave indiscretion awaited: Solace spare in afterthought. Anger sought wage...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"Evergreen" by Laura Saint Martin
Here they come, the apartment block girls, hard-lipped and smelling of deep fry and cigarettes, angry girls sleeping four-deep in boarded...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"My Location" by John Grey
It’s dawn in Providence, the 23rd of June, and I’m in a diner, downing over-easy eggs and guzzling coffee and trying to put together, in...
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Dec 24, 20202 min read
Three poems by Jane C. Miller
If James Wright Came Back, What I Would Say Let poems fly willing as sonar to the cave of you. Let them nest in pockets you didn’t know...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
"table for two, on the patio " by James Thurgood
the joke – that’s what it was stumbled on my lips and died convulsing between cream and sugar – ever polite, you looked away and exhaled...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
"Laura and Lacey" by Jean Youkers
The most flamboyant and beloved character in the novel Full Moon over Estrogen Island was sophisticated, energetic, and had lived in...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
Four poems by Robert Fleming
Wile e. Coyote blasted by TNT coyote is falling down a cliff … always falling, with gravity, never against gravity; no-one puts a...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
"Front Porch Sitting" By Karen Carter
Day 27 of Quarantine A tiny, brown lizard crawls up my front porch steps, jerking its head turning back and forth. Then, content to play...
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Jul 19, 20203 min read
Four poems by Joyce Compton Brown
My Cousin Rudy Explains the Spud Tree For Eugene “Spud” Troutman, 1946-1961 The big beech leans toward the stream, its smooth gray girth...
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Jul 19, 20201 min read
"Memory Tree" by J. Michael Tynan
When did I last sit dappled in a tree? I look and want to say, child, Remember now these moments as you climb high and free (Whisper:...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
"The Alphabet of Hollywood Formulae" by Ian C Smith
The Alphabet of Hollywood Formulae Altitude. Frantic rooftop chases culminate in close-ups, a trailing heel just making the...
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