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Red light laser beams.

Dot by Lia Purpura

February 15, 2023

Empurpled, if caught in the gloaming, before the beam sharpens against true night and reddens the dot into super clarity.

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In Print, Nonfiction Tags Lia Purpura, 2013 fall vol. 6 issue 2, print, Throwback, 2023 February, Nonfiction

Something of Home by Brian Simoneau

November 5, 2021

When you’re young, cities seem magnificent no matter what. Wide-eyed/ you look up to all the buildings crowned with wreaths of ice, speak fondly/ all the streets, mouth full with knowing This is home.

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In Print, Poetry, Newsletter Tags Brian Simoneau, Something of Home, Poem, Poetry, home, Throwback, newsletter, 2013 fall vol. 6 issue 2, RiverBound, MerrimackRiver, Lowell, LowellMassachusetts, Archive
Image of an iphone lying on a light wooden surface, black screen and white earphones lying beside it

Hold Your Phone to this Essay and Select Tag Now by Joe Bonomo

December 1, 2013

I left the bar humming bare traces, the final moments of the song like excavated bones, already fading in the daylight, in the archeology of my head.

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In Print, Nonfiction Tags Joe Bonomo, Archive, Throwback, Print, Music, Hold Your Phone to this Essay and Select Tag Now, 2013 fall vol. 6 issue 2
Debra Marquart

Kablooey is the Sound You'll Hear by Debra Marquart

December 1, 2013

then plaster falling and the billow of gypsum
after your sister blows a hole in the ceiling
of your brother’s bedroom with the shotgun
he left loaded and resting on his dresser.

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In Poetry, Print Tags Debra Marquart, 2013 fall vol. 6 issue 2

Flower Gate and Sea of Gallilee By Kazim Ali

December 1, 2013

My disobedient body pierces the I
Music drifting landward hand in hand

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In Poetry, Print Tags 2013 fall vol. 6 issue 2
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Two Poems by Charlie Clark

December 1, 2013

The cafés have a kind
of tea that is just
the temperature and taste
of air breathed in summer

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In Poetry, Print Tags Charlie Clark, 2013 fall vol. 6 issue 2

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