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Two Poems by Aïcha Martine Thiam

hand holders you were eating strawberries and then all i could see was your mouth: to practice the killing of a friendship is to court...

Two Poems by Scott Ferry

tonight the sun sets in its usual fashion the spheres rotate inside themselves and then circumnavigate bodies in curved spacetime my children splash diamonds into the fire and acknowledge...

Three Poems by Juliana Schifferes

Consider The Frappuccino caffeine’s godly powers are only a few slurps away. banish ennui! conquest thought with energy! don’t taste, except what you remember you tasted of the first...

Two Poems by Dylan Tran

Sorting Through Mail at a Senior Home I make small piles on my desk To separate the residents  Who have passed and those still waiting For letters that...

Two Poems by Pamela Mathison-Levitt

C’est La Vie Two men stood up and beggedfor the lives of their wives. Back home, their bills stickin the mailbox,a half gallon of milk curdles,and...

typing double r’s by Doritt Carroll

typing double r's is a mistake my computer is attached tolike loving the wrong personor eating after 8 it can’t resistgiving me a string of themeach...

The Unfolding by Matthew Ratz

The Unfolding A flower blooming is the unfolding of all it could have ever been, its insides bellow outward; its potential is birthed under the...

Three Poems by Miguel Avero, translated by Jona Colson

Insomne Azules sueños cruzan la habitación a oscuras formando el rostro de las noches en un cielo de humedad. Alimenta el viento la voz del aguacero, surca mis oídos y...

Two Poems by Andi Myles

Fully Known Other universes seep through the cracks in my walls and for a moment my favorite color is no longer blue but the orange of my kitchen...

Two Poems by Timothy Hudenburg

promise & debris remember friendwe are fallenthough nature has kept her word you set your sailsfreedom you believedwas the ability to move, maneuver what the word meantset...

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Two Poems by Bill Ratner

They Send Me to the City to Stay with My Auntie I hang my jacket in the hallwayher apartment is oldmade from shoestring potatoesit smells...

 IF FREEDOM DIES by Alan Abrams

IF FREEDOM DIES What’s next for us, if freedom dies–For those of us, they smear as woken—must we wear their yoke of lies? They seal their...

Three Poems by Lesley Younge

Rock Paper Scissors Water. water to rub rock smooth water to rust scissors shutwater to dissolve paper into nothingnessthen return it to the cannibal trees waterwaterwaterwaterwaterwaterwater water to...
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