I know an old lady and other poems by Robert Beveridge
snake watches spider watches fly another hour like this Linda Blair, Superhero For Carla Toptsidis Enchanted is not the word most would use for a first encounter covered in [...]
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I’ve Been Interrupted Here Before by Jenya Doudareva
Crowd pours onto the pavement like a viscous liquid. Swallows yesterday’s residue – traces of discarded food, pocket garbage, piss stains – with no hesitation. [...]
A Thing From Spain by Ashlie Allen
They know I am not fluent in English, but still approach me. “Why are your eyes so black? Why do you look like you’ve been in the sun all your life?” My mother told me [...]
Drinking your Lye by Nicholas Olsen
I see pieces of you everywhere I go, smell hints of your perfume in drafts of wind as I walk down this old block trying to assemble the remnants of my past. It feels like you [...]
Sloppy Brain by Ashlie Allen
I’m not a ghost, but you touch me as if you can’t feel anything, expression absent of fascination, hands still like there is no meaning to my skin. I shiver a lot because [...]
A DATING PROFILE THAT HAS BEEN PARTIALLY FILLED IN WITH A SMARTPHONE’S PREDICTIVE TEXT FEATURE and other poems by Linette Reeman
[after Madeline Lessing] My name is: HELLO BEAUTIFUL I AM ALIVE TODAY AND PHEW BOY AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG My age is: There will probably be factors about this that make [...]
expletive exclamation comma by Lindsey Thäden
Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton First Presidential Debate, 2016 Broadcast by NBC at Hofstra University Hempstead, NY [...]
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 the pelvic ………..bone juts up to [...]
Over and other poems by Donna Dallas
Damn girl. Look at you. Who made venom so thick course through your blood? The cold flow of winter is in you. Blue blood, blue eyes, dead heart. Too many footprints over your [...]
classifieds and other poems by Chloe DeFilippis
you took my shredded skin / wove it into baskets / sold them for $$$ couldn’t protest cuz my voice’s been ground into fine white powder you pack into little baggies / you [...]
post-inauguration poem by Shy Watson
it is a saturday night i am at a strip mall dunkin donuts in south philadelphia in my pajamas i am Irrationally Mad about the dumb things & not angry enough about the [...]
Sorry My Dad Trolled You Last Night by Matthew Dexter
We booby-trap the house to prevent Dad from drunk posting on Facebook. He lost his career at Raytheon and his reputation throughout Maricopa County. Dad is a good man—when [...]
The Wall of Hearts Desire by Donna Lynn Marsh
I always wanted a wall. Actually, I wanted four. They hold roofs really well and who among us doesn’t want a roof over one’s head? I’ve dreamed of stone and brick [...]
The Squirrel Incident by Jenya Doudareva
A dead squirrel was laying in the middle of the sidewalk. Cause of death – unknown. Folks running around on their morning business in sombre palette suits, as per [...]
La Petite Mort by Quinn White
Cover your ears. I took your father’s virginity. On top, he should’ve faced me, but he stared out his window at the fence, its azalea footnotes. He repeated, [...]
On Donald Trump Tweeting that Meryl Streep is One of the Most Overrated Actresses by Amy Saul-Zerby
This year we learned the difference between shock & surprise & maybe too late, but who would have thought, if given the chance to think? who would realized the [...]
Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard
You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in trailers [...]
Another Word For ‘Birthday Hamster’ by Laura Pavlo
There were one thousand “e”’s in the “please” Lucia’s son sung into the pet store window as he furiously pressed his fingers against the glass at a [...]
An Inauguration Poem As Ghost Written For Donald Trump and other poems by J. Bradley
I thank thee, third party voter, for putting your ethics over your country. I am here today because of you. These last eight years, hope has eroded like a casino on the [...]
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