Stomped Full of the Great Because and other poems by Claire Kelly
Reasons followed her pretty-girl looks like the bows on a kite tail. Her dad taught her to shoot, showed her pictures of those who failed to shoot: a body abandoned in pine [...]
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Someday I’ll Love Meg Johnson and other poems by Meg Johnson
Even though she is a biological woman who wants to be a drag queen. Even though I read her diary and she confessed …………..Sometimes all you can do is [...]
Mimicking the path we walk by Mike Bernicchi
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Peonies stagger paths worn in spots they were picked long ago to heal – Aged men squat [...]
Morning in Portland and other poems by George Franklin
Orange peels on the plate, broken curls Of skin, scent of trees from Morocco, Spain, or somewhere else, somewhere other Than here on this smoke-gray morning in Maine. The [...]
Aspen Matis by Ted Guevara
Throw that cane away; let it bounce and belittle itself among the down rocks. And please don’t look back to cradle it like Moses’ staff, its blackness unworthy of [...]
In Retrospect and other poems by Z.M.Wise
I should have looked both ways. I should have seen your forceful wishes to confuse me into mental paralysis. If I should dribble, apologize and disconnect from any form of [...]
From The Book of Smaller by rob mclennan
Postcard to Gil McElroy A sketch. An apparatus of mish-mash. Salutations. Systematic checks. My legs were cold. Mezzanine. My other body. Years apart. Geometries of [...]
Groceries and other poems by WK Lawrence
Your passing wind captures me Gently mistakes me for another cold heart Like the ones you find in the frozen foods section Sorting through processed fish Comparing prices Or [...]
How to Survive Heartbreak and other poems by Courtney LeBlanc
Acknowledge the wrecking ball in your chest, the slow heaving back and forth as it crashes against your heart. Brush your teeth but avoid the mirror. Drape it with black [...]
False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski
False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, re-sold, re-hashed, hashed-brown, mashed down, spoken [...]
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 [...]
Tight and other poems by Meg Johnson
I was not a child of product demonstrations. I would tie myself up in string. Each tug a prayer to be rescued from the midwest. I also wanted to be a villain, but no one knew [...]
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 [...]
Prosperity and other poems by Anna Keeler
Second wave feminism and a Sexual revolution Too forward to Keep buried in your pants. You learn what it’s like to have To have an existential crisis With a construction [...]
Sleeping and other poems by Simone Savannah
She says last night I was all over the bed pushing her to the edge of it and I am laughing with her because I remember how this started with you— If appropriate I would [...]
POKÉMON MOON and other poems by Graham W. Henderson
POKÉMON MOON the defiant day moon overpowered by the sun who lights it anyway the deferent day moon tries to touch its host theater of the night moon here on the beach all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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