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girls with griffins in their eyes need to wear contacts by Calvero

I saw a pretty girl in a cafe today. She was sitting alone and sipping some kinda coffee drink. She looked like that musty smell in your grandmother’s closet. Except [...]

April 1, 2015

What’s In A Name? by Audrey Wick

December 28, 2016

She told me she thought about naming me Annabel Lee, after the famous female in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Instead, she named [...]
Witness by Leigh Fisher

January 19, 2017

There’s a small, quiet person Hanging in the doorway just a little too afraid to sleep Lingering at the top of the stairs [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

February 1, 2015

Tightly Packed Sardines Forget the niceties And note the following: While you are tightly packed Like sardines in a can, [...]
Sorry there are demons in the weather and other poems by Luke Bradley

January 14, 2017

Tilting up to bluelit bottles like organ pipes and gulping the air, the wonder of five hypothetical storeys, dread will fill [...]
The Morning of the Day by Lee Foust

April 1, 2014

I half sat/half lay propped up on a pillow in bed looking out the bay window in the nearest corner of Betty’s large [...]
Austerity Measures and other poems by Addison Bale

June 26, 2017

without for an abscess conversations after ellipses a side-long glance flouting its prolonged piss burn a bashing spring [...]
We Bagged Sand All Night Until the Levee Broke and other stories by Steve Passey

October 23, 2017

I was trying to listen to the facilitator but the girl in the row in front of me turned and stared at me until I made eye [...]
Family of Four Lokos by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

February 26, 2017

Stephanie, John, and Hector spent an evening in early July selling their art on a sidewalk in Old City. The money – all [...]
Two Poems by Helen Wickes

September 2, 2016

January Dazzle What did we know then—clock ticking, spilled salt, and that one faucet— bitterly, bitterly. The heart [...]
White Cards by Aliya Whiteley

February 1, 2014

The rooms of the British Museum are organised journeys into stone, clay, gold, bronze, sorted by time and catalogued by the [...]
Morning in Portland and other poems by George Franklin

August 21, 2017

Orange peels on the plate, broken curls Of skin, scent of trees from Morocco, Spain, or somewhere else, somewhere other Than [...]
What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente

March 16, 2017

who i decide to take as a lover might be one of life’s great mysteries – listen lover, when you ask me if there are [...]