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A woman suffering from insomnia, in bed, bedsheets up to her neck.

Mockingbird by Lia Purpura

February 15, 2023

Plain bird whose one song is all songs. / Who accompanied me once / while I waited and waited and no call came / and who, for god's sake, will not stop singing now.

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In Poetry, Print Tags 2009 spring vol. 2 issue 1, Mockinbgbird, Lia Purpura, poems, Poetry, Throwback, Archive, print, 2023 February

Three Poems by Sandra Beasley

April 22, 2022

You are the sunburn / where there is no sun, a canary nested / in the ribcage of a miner.

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In Poetry, Print Tags Three Poems, Sandra Beasley, Plenty, Japanese Water Bomb, Love Poem for Oxidation, Disabled Writer, Print, Archive, Throwback, 2009 fall vol. 2 issue 2, poetry, poems, poem
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A Normal Interview with Jubi Arriola-Headley by Arielle K. Jones

June 13, 2021

Kink has a more expansive meaning. … Kink as just that, sexual kinkiness. Kink as, the kink in Black folks’ hair. Kink as, a kink in the system. Kink as in, broke. So, I play off all the different ways that kink is a thing that we think about.

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In Interview Tags Normal Interview, A Normal Interview with Jubi Arriola-Headley, Arielle K. Jones, Jubi Arriola-Headley, Interview, 2021 June, poet, original kink, poems
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Two Poems by Sarah Wetzel

May 5, 2021

we forced open small holes and planted / their delicate bodies, covered / the white network / of translucent roots. / We watered them and waited.

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In Poetry, Newsletter Tags Two Poems, Sarah Wetzel, We Didn't Ruin Everything, Denouement, newsletter, poems, poetry, 2021 May
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Two Poems by Susan Kelly-DeWitt

November 18, 2020

Already it's mostly over: the ruler / laid down, the line drawn, the years penciled in / inches. One yellow smear / of highlighter for where I am right now, a dot / in space.

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In Poetry Tags poetry, poems, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Maps of the Atmosphere, Nineteenth Century Ancestral, 2020 November
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Two Poems by Emma Murray

March 11, 2020

People who talk shit about trailer parks / have never listened to the Titanic sound- / track in a double wide—

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In Poetry Tags poems, poetry, emma murray, double wide & sentimentality, shape: an etymology
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