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 [...]
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The wine label as poetry, 2 by Lindsey Thaden
JUAN CARLOS CUCHILLO FAMILY FARMS Rico Red Reserve Tinto Fino SONOMA COUNTY 2016 It started with a boy and a grape. In 1968, young Juan Carlos Cuchillo [...]
Who Leaves Sprinklers on During a Flood by Alex Antiuk
I put god on a pedestal during the 5 days I spent in a white shack on the beach. On the 6th day god fell. It began with a compulsive annoyance, “Do you want to go on a [...]
Austerity Measures and other poems by Addison Bale
without for an abscess conversations after ellipses a side-long glance flouting its prolonged piss burn a bashing spring leaves a cortisone subscription opportunistically / a [...]
Our Man by Meg Pokrass
This week our stunted man hobbles around the house wearing fluffy, taped-together slippers. It appears as if he has broken a toe. Last week, he was a braying like a donkey, [...]
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 [...]
Sounds of Home by John Talbird
He’ll never go back. John’s twenty-four and independent and has no desire to speak to his parents ever again. There’s no use in trying to make them understand, either [...]
Homeward and other poems by MJ Santiago
I thought I remembered digging into your soft sides, dripping splinters on the ground. And after that a hole remained. We could see straight through, from our cracked bed [...]
Stomach language by Ashlie Allen
I don’t want to sit down. My stomach is roaring, but my mind is roaring louder. “Don’t go close to them. They think you’re weird.” Carrying my books, I flee to the [...]
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 [...]
sometimes people ask me if i’m mad and i say no by Shy Watson
order me caviar you cheap fuck order me caviar my bones become dismantled in the rain what more could you want from me my tender fragility signed, i promise im interesting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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