Poetry 2/28

"Ode in Black, Pink, and Teal Spray-paint on the Decaying Particle Board of What Was Once the Set of the Jerry Springer Show in Stamford, Connecticut" by Francesca Leader

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Apr 291 min read

"Ode in Black, Pink, and Teal Spray-paint on the Decaying Particle Board of What Was Once the Set of the Jerry Springer Show in Stamford, Connecticut" by Francesca Leader

Francesca Leader is a self-taught writer and artist originally from Western Montana. In another life, she earned her Master's degree in...

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Two poems by Elliott batTzedek

Elliott batTzedek is a Pushcart-nominated bookseller, poet, and liturgist who lives in Philadelphia and organizes literary events at Main...

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"My Freedom I Regain" by Radoslav Rochallyi

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"My Freedom I Regain" by Radoslav Rochallyi

Radoslav Rochallyi, PhD., was born on May 1, 1980, in Czechoslovakia, into a family with Lemko and Hungarian heritage. His works...

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"Leaving the Oldest Tree in Maine Alone" by John Popielaski

The map of what’s been cut from here clear up to Maine since the incursions shows that almost all of the originals and everything within...

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"Complicit Harvest" by Bill Schreiber

Starve the bloodless peach seduce salt, deliver the dead cringe back from our dark harvest blighted pain or harrow it into sickened humus...

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"At Therapy in the Rain" by E.C. Gannon

In the corner chair of the cashmere office, I tuck my legs under my body and repeat something about the 844 picnickers who died when...

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"When you put your old clothes on, I remember that I love you" by Audrey Beaton

You call it a game and crawl back into your chrysalis. When you emerge, some half-formed thing, I remember every leg and eye, every...

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"The Missing Layer"Tyson Higel

Tyson Higel lives in Bellingham, WA where he works as a nurse. He began writing poetry in search of fluent self-expression, something he...

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One poem by Caroline Fairey Meese

Caroline Fairey Meese edits composition and literature textbooks at W. W. Norton. Her poetry and prose can be found in storySouth,...

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"Nights Larkinesque" by Paul Jones

What are nights for? Nights are where dreams begin. We sleep, we relive Times found and times lost Where we may be happy again. Where can...

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"Francine Wonders: Could This Be Entropy?" by Cecil Morris

Francine thirteen and bemused by what her body’s done, by how its bloomed and ached and made the men she likes the best stand wary...

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"When I Grow Up, I Want to Be an Astronaut" by James Croal Jackson

the balloons inside float in swarms of blackbirds straight toward a helium moon. oh to sink my living teeth into that tethered object and...

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"Especially" by Stan Sanvel Rubin

a Wednesday morning when nothing much happens only the ordinary so expected it is nothing exhaled like a breath filling the air that...

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"Fantasia" by Pat Valdata

After a painting by Hiro Yamagata, “Poet” Somewhere in this landscape the poet watches. It’s fall, but an early snow flurry blankets the...

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"we're all haunted highways" by Michael Waterson

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"we're all haunted highways" by Michael Waterson

Michael Waterson is a retired journalist originally from Pittsburgh PA. His varied career includes stints as a seasonal firefighter, San...

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from: "Amazon" Ann Pedone

Unavoidably the men with their humble crotches A house inside out. Or are they ten? Fucking against gravity, I’ve never had much of an...

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"The Importance of Blushing " by Philip Jason

Accordingly, love predates. It is the first of twelve unique glimpses of the open petal. The others, in no particular order: harmony,...

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"Picking Apples" by Marie-Andrée Auclair

Green orbs plumped up and mellowed to a red flush: Some apples nestling in the grass of the corral are ready. The worms knew, who tasted...

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"N(noon) in miNe, S(seen) in Sarvin" by Sarvin Parviz

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"N(noon) in miNe, S(seen) in Sarvin" by Sarvin Parviz

Sarvin Parviz (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and poet from Tehran. Her work has appeared in Roi Fainéant Literary Press...

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"My Father's Cabin" by Jan Wiezorek

The cabin of my dreams is a love poem to my father, who often stood still, w/ his right leg far forward, as if stepping on the site,...

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