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the sun shouts at us in tongues and other poems by William James

The sun shouts at us in tongues through the tower window. Calls us by name & we hide ourselves from its gaze. From the plague of crows circling en masse. They carried our [...]

January 20, 2017

Three Poems by Molly Kelley

May 29, 2016

A Quality Skull I have a quality skull. I could find it in the dark. Stripped of its skin. I could hook my finger through [...]
You are what you eat and I’m not meat by Edward Birt

February 23, 2017

Bacon. Ham. Sausage. Steak. None of this gets on my plate. Chops. Chorizo. Squid and offal. Divine to some, to me just [...]
Aspen Matis by Ted Guevara

August 7, 2017

Throw that cane away; let it bounce and belittle itself among the down rocks. And please don’t look back to cradle it like [...]
Versions of the Truth by Richard King Perkins II

June 1, 2015

For J.P. In gym class, I saw his legs five times a week for three years of middle school. Those tortured limbs never stopped [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #17

December 10, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 17 are: Crying in Cars With Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy Three [...]
Thieves by Kelle Grace Gaddis

August 28, 2017

Sleep is a type of dying we enter each night. If lucky, we rise from our rest in peace, our pillowed tombs, to see another [...]
The Silver Birch by Vincent O’Connor

October 1, 2014

In the garden of my deceased dad there stood a single tree. It bore no fruit, offered no druids’ code, brought forth no [...]
How to Survive Heartbreak and other poems by Courtney LeBlanc

July 16, 2017

Acknowledge the wrecking ball in your chest, the slow heaving back and forth as it crashes against your heart. Brush your [...]
What She’s Made Of by Vincent Anioke

February 1, 2015

Stacey came over today. Her pink hair ribbon was gone, replaced by a sort of butterfly comb that raked through her auburn [...]
Commitments by Kelle Grace Gaddis

December 29, 2016

His coarse beard was an array of auburn, brown and gray strands, hairs upturned and twisted out to the side refusing to [...]
False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski

March 20, 2017

False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #5

August 1, 2014

Dear Readers, Welcome to the new issue of Vending Machine Press. The quality of the writers we have encountered so far [...]

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