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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Distant Homeland by Joseph S. Pete
The inchoate Macedonian teen, Little more than a tender sprout, Untested and provincial, Set sail alone across the Atlantic Into a great unknown So he wouldn’t be [...]
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 [...]
Killing My Grandmother’s Grandaughter and other poems by Kanika Lawton
I think my body will always be an euphemism for apology, always too tall or too short or too wide or too thin. My hips offering sin like sweet cakes, condensed milk liquor [...]
The Salt of Our Bodies is the Salt of Our Rhymes and other poems by Steve Passey
In the salt of our bodies Is the salt of our rhymes It comes out of us hard It comes out in our speech This depression is not like the last one No one has holes in their [...]
Cena Trimalchionis by Benjamin Goluboff
The long withdrawing roar can no longer be heard above the small-arms fire from the clubs and schools and churches. Forests burn. Seeds are indentured to multinational [...]
SALT AND LIGHT ~ A COVENANT by Lisa Harris
I. Evil, like most things, takes time to grow— small steps taken and subtle masks worn, nudges and whispers, a wink and a laugh, a slow poison can remain undetected, at [...]
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