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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 [...]

January 18, 2017

Dark Cloud by Jenya Doudareva

February 18, 2017

He hid inside Nimbostratus Gardens. Heavy damp smell of vegetation filled his throat and made his glasses foggy. For a [...]
Splintered Love and other poems by J. B Stone

October 23, 2017

Our love used to be this cozy little cabin Secluded from the irrational drama The world throws at others Our love wasn’t [...]
Two Poems by Sarah Sala

June 1, 2015

POEM AFTER MAN: KITCHEN TABLE 1. I thought here’s a man who owns who he is. Look how natural you move in your animal skin. [...]
Two Poems by Helen Picard

February 1, 2015

Rusty Rood From the second floor window, the red roof of the house next door reflected A strange, rusty glow at twilight. In [...]
Turtle and Hare by Chloe Clark

April 1, 2014

If loss were a mathematical concept— a subtraction, a division, a formula for invisible numbers, then how does one [...]
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 [...]
With Feathers by Sheldon Lee Compton

April 10, 2017

What place is safe now, so we can say what our good logic leads us to understand? Saying we will create our own sunlight, [...]
Two Poems by Lynne Potts

November 1, 2015

FACTS, CHICKENS, AND TRAIN TRACKS Acquisition in the lobby of the El Rancho Hotel, Gallup New Mexico where the waitress [...]
Familiar Stranger by Eva-Marie Sher

September 2, 2016

The crow on the horizon you see in the eyes of the Trappist… from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank [...]
New Place by Rebecca Guest

October 1, 2014

The promise of newly painted walls lining empty rooms, a kind of hubris that sings up your arms, popping goosepimples of [...]
Blizzard of 1950, Eatontown NJ by Lee Landau

June 1, 2015

Sometimes, too many times Mom went crazy, never meant for children, particularly three girls in a low rent, attached home, [...]
Confessions of a Lunch Thief by Allie Marini Batts

December 1, 2013

I’m just like any other kind of criminal. I started small. In kindergarten. My life of crime can be traced back to a [...]

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