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Sometimes Love Looks Like by Edie Meade

March 29, 2022

It's love in a silent spell/ tinkering in separate rooms

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In Poetry Tags Sometimes Love Looks Like, Edie Meade, 2022 March, Poetry, Poem

Roadkill by Lisa Lopez Smith

March 16, 2022

...witnessing the necessary work / of decomposing, composting, nature cycling, / until one day...

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In Poetry Tags Roadkill, Lisa Lopez Smith, Poetry, Poem, 2022 March

Two Poems by Collin Van Son

March 9, 2022

Ten degrees and it’s night, painted stars/ adorning my flask.

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In Poetry Tags Two Poems by Collin Van Son, Natural Habitat, Such Harmony! Such Balance!, Collin Van Son, Poems, Poetry, 2022 March

A Name Is a Haunting by Sage Ravenwood

March 9, 2022

The sound splices my lips in bitten denial

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In Poetry Tags A Name is a Haunting, Sage Ravenwood, 2022 March, Poem, Poetry

A 360° Photograph of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach by Dimiter Kenarov

March 9, 2022

Giddy, I spin the landscape around myself until I feel again like a child.

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In Poetry, Print Tags A 360° Photograph of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, Dimiter Kenarov, Poetry, Print, Throwback, 2009 fall vol. 2 issue 2

Two Poems by Leah Claire Kaminski

March 9, 2022

Now that I’ve stopped, I have more time to think about things like rocks, slightly less for thinking about self-loathing.

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In Newsletter, Poetry Tags Two Poems, Leah Claire Kaminski, Zombie Sonnet, Amethyst, Newsletter, 2022 March

Memory Like Form Filling Void by Eli Coyle

March 1, 2022

Where do things go when in their leaving, /when they're uprooted and carried/ somewhere else?

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In Poetry Tags Memory Like Form Filling Void, Eli Coyle, Poem, Poetry, 2022 March

Two Poems by Michael Battisto

February 28, 2022

I wear/ my drab green gown and listen/ to the insecurities of the nurses.

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In Poetry Tags Two Poems by Michael Battisto, Self-Portrait in a Hospital Room, Addictions Never End They Are Merely Substituted With Others, 2022 February, Poems, Poetry

Two Poems by Kathryne David Gargano

February 28, 2022

a trembling/ of finches, for example: flung down/ a coal mine/ if she returns to me/ i am safe to remain

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In Poetry Tags Two Poems by Kathryne David Gargano, & when i jump the sky will catch me, SENTINEL SPECIES, 2022 February, Poems, Poetry

Body (mine) by Amanda Leahy

January 20, 2022

We supposed / you were / mute, or / dying. We threw you / to / wolves; / they / didn't want / you.

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In Poetry Tags Body (mine), Amanda Leahy, 2022 January, Poem, Poetry

Two Poems by E.C. Belli

January 20, 2022

Fog can be an atmospheric condition or / a type of bewilderment— / I am asked to think of ways / In which I can keep it / From settling

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In Poetry Tags Two Poems by E.C. Belli, EXPECTATIONS, EVOLUTION, 2022 January, Poems, Poetry

Three Poems by Ceren Ege

January 13, 2022

My mother chose to place his lungs in rice long before the doctors decided to / tease the tumor. Let the grains pull
out the chicken stock from its veins long before she stopped / cooking. My father was a quiet man.

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In Poetry Tags Ceren Ege, Three Poems, The Grand (Ba)Bazaar, Channels on a TV for the Dead, My Mother Used Her Kohl's Cash to Buy Her Husband's Urn, Poetry, Poems, 2022 January

Spontaneous Abortion by Nancy Beauregard

December 15, 2021

shut / off the lights climb back / into bed place a pillow / under your knees ask / forgiveness

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In Poetry Tags Spontaneous Abortion, Nancy Beauregard, Poetry, Poem, 2021 December

Two Poems by Lily Rose Kosmicki

December 15, 2021

A satisfied end eludes me / The hysteria of locution becomes me / Charred brain crowded and crowned / with fleshy angles feeding / of the mouthparts, crazed

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In Newsletter, Poetry Tags Two Poems, The Unmentionable, Close at Hand, Lily Rose Kosmicki, Poetry, Poem, 2021 December, Newsletter, love

Thera by Kristian Macaron

December 8, 2021

I know I am not empty -- life inside me / is grit and blood and a light buried in / sinew which has made me this star

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In Poetry, Newsletter Tags Kristian Macaron, Thera, 2021 December, Poetry, Poem

The Old Country by Michele Popadich

November 24, 2021

whole plums hang rotund from heavenly branches / puckered fruitless / bruised but beloved on the kitchen table /

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In Poetry Tags Michele Popadich, The Old Country, Poem, Poetry, 2021 November

What They Say If You Lose a Child by Kate Stoltzfus

November 24, 2021

I remember the neighborhood shrieking in summer, / kids dripping popsicles the color of blood onto hot concrete / & wondering how his voice would cut the air / when I finally heard it. You can always have another

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In Poetry Tags Kate Stoltzfus, What They Say If You Lose a Child, Poem, Poetry, 2021 November

Three Poems by Janice N. Harrington

November 17, 2021

I am grass and root and loam. A vole tunnels in my throat. / Field mice bed inside my womb. Hair, limbs, / fingers lengthen and rise, lengthen and slender into turkeyfoot / and stands of Indiangrass.

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In Poetry Tags Janice N. Harrington, Poetry, Three Poems, ON BUYING A ROSE, BEFORE SUNDOWN, TURNING INTO A PRAIRIE, 2021 November

Two Poems by Natalie Dunn

November 10, 2021

We would lie on her bed with our legs up on the white wall eating saltines / with butter while we made a list of everything we wanted. / Try to keep your hunger, someone said when she died in the summer. / I ate flour and bone. Measured the distance between two cups on the table.

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In Poetry Tags Two Poems by Natalie Dunn, Poetry, Poems, The Glass Window, She Said She Liked It Under The Trees, 2021 November

The Muse the World Forgot to Name by Mureall Hebert

November 10, 2021

She paints roses under heavy skies. Purple, / the color of bruised plums. The artistry is in knowing / her audience, their heart-beaten stutter riding / on airbrushed waves.

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In Poetry Tags The Muse the World Forgot to Name, Mureall Hebert, Poems, Poetry, 2021 November
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