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"In the Name Of" by Daniel Edward Moore
trinitarian genes the DNA of spilt-personality gods I discovered mine drinking Jack & Coke chilled by a bear in...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
Two poems by Christy Prahl
Birthright The mechanics of this body have never made a baby. They may have once held the start of a baby, a clot expelled one morning...
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- Mar 7
- 1 min
"Failure" by Alexander Lazarus Wolff
You’d never held a gun before, the percussion ricocheting throughout the bones in your skull. And the sag of your smile, the dismay, as...
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- Mar 7
- 1 min
"How This Bee Stuffs Its Pockets" by Hayden Saunier
There is a name for the color of pollen this honeybee is packing into its thigh pouches as it works the Mexican sunflowers with exuberant...
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- Mar 7
- 3 min
Two poems by Paul Siegell
Refresher. (For Warren Longmire) Someone called their mindfulness a “glass-bottomed suspension bridge,” so in that land I stood a ladder....
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- Mar 7
- 1 min
"Two Photographs" by Ann Quinn
1. Connecticut hospital June, 2020 This piece is about space and speed. Within the almost unbearable confinement of the corridors, we...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
Two poems by Courtney LeBlanc
Snails & Stars Snails can sleep for up to three months which I think just makes them depressed but we aren’t always good about...
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- Mar 7
- 1 min
"Roads" by Peycho Kanev
The cars are metastases crawling inside the veins of the roads. And then they disappear in the flatline of the horizon. Green is the...
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- Mar 7
- 1 min
Two poems by Angie Dribben
Spellbound Where I’m from we’re taught young the catch patterns of a man. Bake the blood of our moons into their supper. It’s his tongue...
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- Mar 7
- 1 min
Two poems by Mark Danowsky
Taken Out I was raised by those raised by a generation to spend a long time “getting ready” so someone can stand at the foot of the...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
"Artist's Cairn" by Nancy Avery Dafoe
I have written about rocks before— our subconscious desire to return to our mineral state— but a recent confrontation with what appeared...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
Two poems by Alex Carrigan
Tunnel Sounds I play music to trap my mind. I stare down a tunnel and wait. I waited and stared down the tunnel for the echo to catch...
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- Mar 7
- 3 min
Two poems by Michael Brosnan
Swimming Take the tuna salad, for instance. The thin man in front of me in the midday line at a Hell’s Kitchen deli orders it for lunch....
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
"Don't" by Morgan Boyer
After Jimmy Cvetic’s “Just Because” Don’t skin the pencil of its yellow coating like you’re some French fur trader Don’t hide behind the...
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- Jan 1
- 1 min
"cypress" by Cordelia Hanemann
homage to D.H. Lawrence I return too often to the bayou land of my marriage there: lone cypress folded in like a dark thought for...
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- Jan 1
- 2 min
"Spider/Magpies/Crows" by Sandra Kohler
Air thick, not cold, still, moist. Gray skies. The world is not transformed by a vow or a wish. A spider hangs above the chair next to...
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- Jan 1
- 2 min
"I Take Off My Shirt and She Giggles." by Joe Cottonwood
Trainee. Young woman—no, a girl in a lab coat. Treadmill, a stress test. Nervously she says Excuse me but I have to shave your chest hair...
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
"The Sparrow's Sister" by Robert Beveridge
I Wind over grain becomes you, ripples in rhythm under your skin, a sapling in the wind, its leaves in love with the pavement. II Each of...
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Broadkill Review
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Two poems by Irene Fick
My Mother Rose from the Dead days after mourners whispered and wailed their farewells. Her lungs were now pure, her mood magnanimous....
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Broadkill Review
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Two poems by Paul Ilechko
Event Horizon What exactly is an event horizon she asked but he had no explanation the two words seemingly irreconcilable one of them...
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