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Three Poems by Ariel Francisco

Self Portrait With Moths After Rain Moths stumble through dusk, descending towards the glow of a glimmering lamppost mirrored in the water of a rain-filled pothole. Self [...]

August 1, 2015

Three Poems by Sloane Eliot Mariem

Heresy for the Nonbeliever / Mistaking Real Things for Shadows No refuge here, not with you no room for my veiled language [...]
Fucking a Enuch by Laurie Lessen Reiche

Entanglements. Facebook is Fascist. Don’t you love me? Don’t you get me? Poor marching drummer fallen in a ditch, legs [...]
Lies to Tell the Body and other poems by Alyse Bensel

To become the opposite of orgasm, I practiced ………..breathing with the cyst nestled in my left ovary, where [...]
SALT AND LIGHT ~ A COVENANT by Lisa Harris

I. Evil, like most things, takes time to grow— small steps taken and subtle masks worn, nudges and whispers, a wink and a [...]
Behavior Pattern by Frank Rubino

I have very much liked you— to feel one has acted well— My behaviors were in admiration of you and perhaps imitative [...]
two poems by liz minette

After After you died, your house was still a mess; like always, always when we’d come over, you’d say [...]
Interview with Jenya Doudareva

1. What was your early life like? Where did you grow up? I was born in Russia and lived there until my teenage years when I [...]
Insurance Purposes by J.J. Krill

scrambling to figure out what to do after leaving the holding tank an actual clinic some where is looking like fifty-grand a [...]
FOUR WAY INDEPENDENCE and other poems by Mark Belair

FOUR-WAY INDEPENDENCE Try this at home: Sit in a chair and count out loud to four in a loop, then start tapping your right [...]
Prodigal by Michele Madigan Somerville

When the clock strikes, the masks are delivered. I pause in a doorway, a shade, a champagne glass in my hand. Station stop: [...]
True Blue by Sarah Vernetti

Amber had almost survived another day. The children scrambled to find their places in line. A whirlwind of backpacks and [...]
Autumn leaves and other poems by Alison Znamierowski

Autumn Leaves with Pictures we opened each other like maps explored, traced our fingers along every outline, got utterly and [...]