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Two poems by Natalie Padilla Young
He never howls when he’s awake. When everything depends—has always depended on acting like nothing is wrong. —Kate Greenstreet, from “2...
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Broadkill Review
- Mar 31
- 1 min
"How to Build a Cave" by Mary Christine Delea
Secure darkness during the daytime— tempt the moon down so that it cracks a hillside, dispensing night into rock. Search for soft mud and...
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- Mar 31
- 2 min
"Etude (on Being High and Being Unable to Escape the Thought of Dying)" by Samuel J Fox
Xanax moon, chloroform clouds, light a stream of ecstasy. The world: lucid tonight. I go to work high sometimes and leave it drowsy with...
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- Mar 31
- 3 min
Three poems by Sharnell Tull aka "Sista Big"
There ARE Yellow Weeds Growing Where You Used to Live My mind been so fucked up as of late— once thought to be a mastered thing now it’s...
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- Mar 20
- 1 min
"Leak Proof" by Beth Vigoren
Black garbage bags hide. She has uncovered family photos, kid's art projects, broken devices, uneaten food, and soiled tissues—no...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
"The Forest Door" by Hannah Grace Greer
It seems to me, that when we sleep our unconscious drips. When I was a child, I always knew the forest. On school trips, I would go off...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
"Steps for Frying: A Guide for Birds", "Contemplation on Going-to-the-Sun Road" by Jen Karetnick
Steps for Frying: A Guide for Birds I. Quail is a good starter bird for when you want to learn how to deep-fry a turkey, excoriate in...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
"old love in psylocibic puerto vallarta" by Anna Bagoly
I. I expected more desert than dripping, green oasis surprised by my own assumptions and there she was the first love of my life (after...
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- Mar 13
- 2 min
"Before I Bite, I’ll Say This" by Valentina Rivera-Lies
Like my mother, I was born with teeth––smoothed stones for shredding bones that sink deeply, fixed neatly, into bleeding gums. It was a...
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- Mar 13
- 2 min
Two poems by Catherine Fletcher
π’s Daughter π’s daughter never repeats herself. She plots the paths of rivers, curls in the tendrils of Virginia creeper, the twists of...
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- Mar 13
- 2 min
"reckless cloth" by Brady Riddle
reckless cloth (for september 16, 2022) it starts so small—as obsessions do—middle of the night, there in the cradle, reaching down to...
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- Feb 14
- 1 min
Three poems by Claire Rychlewski
Wifetime visions A specter ...
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Broadkill Review
- Feb 13
- 1 min
"Sirens"by Remi Recchia
Too many sirens today. Blood-colored warning streaked through the window blinds. Blue shards intact. Will the chase scene stop for the...
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- Feb 12
- 2 min
"two poems" by nat raum
the sky said trans rights my dad and i used to saturday on the shores of loch raven or prettyboy when the snowfall season befell, tracing...
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- Feb 12
- 2 min
"Palmistry" by Satya Dash
from the once refrigerated apple on the bedside table sprang the frozen blush of the ascending waist bone brushed by the...
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- Feb 12
- 3 min
"Blaze/Bear" by Emiliano Gomez
Blaze By midnight that year, California had lost 6 million acres. Fire also wants to live. Ember hails and stories of wisps-cum-whips:...
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- Feb 12
- 2 min
Two poems by Summer LoPriore
When a Woman Buys a Gun, It Lies in a Man’s Room My mother is a wild thing. When a woman births a little girl, she cries into existence...
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- Feb 12
- 3 min
"Food Truck Philosophy" by Jen Schneider
1. I grew up in a home consumed of rings. Not of marriage or vows but of wrestling and worrisome wows. A blend of heat and heels...
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- Feb 12
- 1 min
"Chant For The Last Full Moon Before Summer Solstice" by Paul Jones
Strawberry-ripe, night-glow. It's where the day's heat goes. So wild, so bright, so close— secrets we need to know. It's where the day's...
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Broadkill Review
- Feb 12
- 1 min
"Wakefield High School Kansas Girls Basketball Team Photo, 1915" by Jeffrey Hecker
Our stretch fours know Audrey Munson’s full nudity in her silent film Inspiration enhances the plot: a sculptor loses a perfect model...
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