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"government bureau" by Madeline Langan
(Based on George Tooker’s Government Bureau.) is this it? the shuffling and a motorcade of incandescent dial tones. anonymous spheres of...
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Sep 26, 20221 min read
"A Scattering" by Richard Weaver
A salt-heavy voice surfs the waves. Morning slows as wind counts, first its reluctant fingers, then its webbed toes. Your ashes sank or...
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Sep 26, 20222 min read
Two Poems by Elizabeth Sylvia
Open Cart Marie Antoinette remembers ✤ I ride through my life for the last time thrown from the cell of darkness into the cold roar of...
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Sep 26, 20223 min read
"The Fly on Cardinal Bandinello Sauli's Left Knee" by Regina O' Melveny
from the painting Cardinal Bandinello Sauli, His Secretary, and Two Geographers by Sebastiano del Piombo I Invisible at first it springs...
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Sep 26, 20221 min read
Two poems by Juan Pablo Mobili
Watching the News Facts precipitate like summer rains and risk drowning what nudged this poem to begin dreaming, to be celebrated...
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Sep 26, 20222 min read
Two poems by Ronnie Jackson
Weight, Loss A man rides a tandem bicycle alone. Phantom legs picking up slack in the back. We are surrounded by ghosts of our making...
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Sep 26, 20222 min read
Three poems by Sara Ries Dziekonski
Our Diner’s Red neon sign hums while most of the world slumbers, metal-panel gown aglow in the sunrise. Rust. Ketchup with drowned bits...
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Sep 26, 20223 min read
Two poems by Jennefer Cole
Photos Syntheses Order can be found here – in an open palm, where pieces of life take the shape of reality. There a smile lies off...
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Sep 26, 20222 min read
Two poems by Lauren Camp
Clasp-lock, Winter The end of the year or the eyelash of another is a whirlpoint to our whole persistent erasure. In today’s version,...
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Sep 26, 20222 min read
Three poems by Lake Angela
Orthodoxy My first language, water, was driven from me by steadfast threats of sulfur. Guilt stares at me from my ghost, yellow holes in...
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Aug 10, 20224 min read
Five poems by Julie E. Bloemeke
Slide to Unlock after the iPhone entry screen, 2007—2016 Caught in the present tense, we are continuously poised to receive its...
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Jul 1, 20222 min read
Two poems by Ace Boggess
If You’re Reading This, Accept My Apologies I’ve been abusive to my body: pills & cocaine, vodka, cigarettes, sodas, fatty foods, knife...
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Jul 1, 20221 min read
Two poems by R.T. Castleberry
Distant Is The Morning Rain dries on a windy street. Heron skulks the horizon. Never trust a Capricorn’s word until you know how it falls...
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Jul 1, 20222 min read
"the end of the world is coming and I have all the answers" by Meghan Miraglia
You should believe me. I was a disciple. I washed his feet with my tears and perfume. Gave him my portions at meals. It used to blind me,...
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Jul 1, 20221 min read
Two poems by Cameron Morse
A Circular Arrangement Whorl of dark hair on the scalp of my newborn daughter Gigi, so thin her skin shows through, and the red cloud of...
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Jul 1, 20221 min read
"Pure Green" by Alexander Etheridge
I walk further into myself---inside a waking dream, I walk further into dark. All at once the trees and sky here change, becoming ten...
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Jul 1, 20222 min read
Three poems by Natasha King
The Ark Over-eager, I slipped and razored my wrist open against the bite of the chain-link fence, and clutched the swell of the wound...
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Jul 1, 20222 min read
Two poems by Sara Fetherolf
Talk Back Be thistle & briar & tigerlily growing roadside. Be skunk or fox or coy- wolf, sly enough for cities. God says don’t look in...
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Jun 6, 20221 min read
"Intermittent Connection" by John Wojtowicz
I see a woman hang gliding over the cornfields as I drive to my 9-5 and smile — enthused by this rebellion of the weekday slog. And I’m...
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Jun 6, 20221 min read
"Continental Drift" by Kent Neal
somewhere at the bottom of the ocean there's a place where your home country and host country wash away their borders where continents...
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