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"Shedding What Outgrew Me" by Ren Pike
I think I might have summit disease, I read about it in a magazine at noon, I'm drawn to the extra large, single-stall bathroom on level...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
"I Kissed Leah" by Donald Pasmore
-With a line by Jean Amery and I have the Polaroid to prove it. Language broke down: she thought it was sweet when I said I love you but...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
"Mississippi Walkabout" by JC Alfier
Some days the turmoil at home boils over when I fail to explain my need for last calls and neon, for a barmaid’s black-heeled boot to...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
"Cento of John Irving’s The 158 lb Marriage" by Frances Klein
Year: 2023 Medium: tongue on skin In Vienna she wore his letter-jacket and her worst fears, but they still made a kind of art together....
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Nov 21, 20233 min read
"flannel zuizhitsu" by Liam Strong
eidetic photo of ham sandwich perched atop fire hydrant outside the Woodmere library. somewhere i hear my great grandpa smile & die in...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
"Burnt Offering" by izzy maxson
The autumn my brother fed a Barbie doll to the dog, He had asked our mother for it and she had acquiesced, believing it was proof of her...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
"Winterlight Ritual" by lae astra
Outside our windows framed in fog, first snow dusts Tokyo rooftops. You pass me the vial with a brush of stars, stirring the elements of...
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Nov 21, 20232 min read
"The Lord's Slowest Swimmers" by Benjamin Bellas
Tell me your feelings about dusk in twenty-seven syllables or less. Hush. I have just one quick sip to soak in your terra-firma breath...
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Nov 21, 20232 min read
Two poems by Michaela Mayer
After My Appendectomy, I Think About Amber Benson’s Role in Buffy: A Golden Shovel fingers of light trace below where the blinds break:...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
Two poems by Ray Malone
Borrowed Form 1 Today she’s dead, or was that yesterday. A deep sigh. To signify sadness, or the lack of it. Your hand trying to find...
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Nov 20, 20233 min read
"The Moon" by Mrityunjay Mohan
It is summer. Ice skips into my mouth. Berries hang on the fingers of plants, grains sprout against the toes of the fields. The sun...
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Nov 20, 20232 min read
"The Night" by Mrityunjay Mohan
The night is a painting on the shore of my mind. It teeters on the edge like a cliff being swallowed by water. My body being eaten by the...
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Nov 20, 20234 min read
Two poems by Clara Burghelea
"Nebulas of Desire" A crescent moon limns each linden tree with white gold. Inside the dormant room, a fistful of worries nested on the...
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Nov 20, 20232 min read
Two poems by Anon Baisch
] Lifing Journal [] 44860 [ The deathing of a mother the deepening the meanness Six bodies around a small pit asking for guidance on the...
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Nov 20, 20234 min read
"Slips"by Christine Spillson
Memory will rust and erode into lists --John K. Samson She once wrote why she loved me. She didn’t write it in a letter or a story or in...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
Three poems by Adam Day
Waterfalling Children Future kids of the present fire – strange generation, self- fashioning within the current colony; love- fury; blood...
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Nov 20, 20232 min read
Two poems by Julia Armstrong
Self Portrait as Cataclysm I take the birds, too. sweep them shrilling into my all-consuming arms. the air reeks of fish—no beaks to pick...
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Nov 20, 20232 min read
"Ode to Dia, Designer Perfume, and Making It Out of the Sticks Alive" by Rita Mookerjee
we meet on a double date with boyfriends in the applebee’s that would later wind up as the site of a shooting [crime of passion] how...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
"Debts And Carrots" by Kenton K. Yee
I resisted form: drove a mile at 3 am to Safeway for one carrot, bought cheese instead. The cashier asked how I was, as if I were fine....
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
"Minute Bodies Gather To" by Paulie Lipman
praise the ashes of their humble dirt church holy book a celibate dictionary they think not of business lost only hard success flames...
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