Some Nice Words by Jenya Doudareva
“Something’s happened” I overheard As I noted the people were rushing away Trying not to look nervous (were they instructed?) Trying to move delicately and politely, [...]
The Salt of Our Bodies is the Salt of Our Rhymes and other poems by Steve Passey
In the salt of our bodies Is the salt of our rhymes It comes out of us hard It comes out in our speech This depression is not like the last one No one has holes in their [...]
the sun shouts at us in tongues and other poems by William James
The sun shouts at us in tongues through the tower window. Calls us by name & we hide ourselves from its gaze. From the plague of crows circling en masse. They carried our [...]
Witness by Leigh Fisher
There’s a small, quiet person Hanging in the doorway just a little too afraid to sleep Lingering at the top of the stairs too hesitant to come down There’s a fragile [...]
Rock Pools by F.C Malby
‘Look, a starfish, bright orange. Look at it.’ Sophie points to the ripples in the rock pool, her pigtails drop down over her cheeks, cover the freckles that have faded [...]
Mind Herbs by Ashlie Allen
He brought me herbs, though I was not sick in the body. No one could see where the illness lived except him. First, he stuffed the herbs inside my brain, then his hands. It [...]
white sheets and cow milk by Ingrid Solbrig
I want to write [a poem] about us but there is no us There is you, far and me, too close. There is you, unknown. I want to write about the time you said I was cold while I [...]
Sorry there are demons in the weather and other poems by Luke Bradley
Tilting up to bluelit bottles like organ pipes and gulping the air, the wonder of five hypothetical storeys, dread will fill us up entirely like sub-sub-contra C. First, [...]
lights, camera, action and other poems by Amy Saul-Zerby
lights, camera, action in a room as quiet as yours is today there is space into which expansion may occur when a house is this quiet & the wind comes in audible gusts [...]
Quartet for Winds and other poems by Aaron Brame
Quartet for Winds I. My mother birthed me in a skyscraper, named me after the largest city known to the world. Made me a child. Blessed me with a song from a gramophone, let [...]
At my sons concert and other poems by Justin Hyde
at my son’s concert on a little wooden chair next to my ex-wife in the auditorium. we don’t talk much outside of co-parenting. but i know she recently found out [...]
Four Poems by Dorothy Chan
Sonnet XXV: Hong Kong Crabs Hold on for Dear Life Hong Kong crabs are holding on for dear life as Dad takes the tongs and I hold the bag. We’re in the seafood department, [...]
Six Poems by Benjamin Blake
Old Bones Weary, bleary-eyed distraction Forever trying to make it home Shuffling ‘round the living room, slipper-clad Chain-smoking on the front porch Weighing-up the size [...]
I just wanted to be sinister and other poems by Stephanie Valente
it’s just a little drop of blood on my shirt collar, nothing really – the lipstick is harder to rub out. WE’RE ALL UNICORN HUNTING obviously, if you had [...]
The Origin of Trees by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Palm trees belong to two states: California and Florida. But more to California than Florida – Florida is where oranges grow on trees that are the result of shoots [...]
Cena Trimalchionis by Benjamin Goluboff
The long withdrawing roar can no longer be heard above the small-arms fire from the clubs and schools and churches. Forests burn. Seeds are indentured to multinational [...]
Commitments by Kelle Grace Gaddis
His coarse beard was an array of auburn, brown and gray strands, hairs upturned and twisted out to the side refusing to conform to the lines of his face. The beard had become [...]
Six Poems by Josh Jordan
The Soul Undimmed In quietude you whisper upon the wind, reminiscing upon an afflicted past Outwardly your soul appears cemented from any perception veiled in tragedy, [...]
Poetry Quintet by Jessica Mehta
Ma’am, I Am Tonight Rare are the great moments recognized in the making. That night in Nashville, the rooftop, the five of us. I watched the magic fall slow from the sky [...]
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