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Desi St. Amant - One Poem

The Words She WoreWhen she first spoke,words were leaden with bookish factssandwiched with rehearsed one-linerslike a stiff, over-sized suit: It was pressed, it was cleanbut could not conceal her...

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Susan Beall Summers - One Poem

Seeing Infinity Focus not on the forestor the trees,look for the small animals beneath the leaf litter:snakes, toads, turtles.Look closer, find snails, beetles,fungus, worms,and microscopic amoeba,...

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Heather McCroskey - One Poem

Learning to DrownI remember the “dead man” sink, the way          legs drag my body down.Tangled arms block my swimmer stroke          too tired to flail.My matted scalp bobs underneath          then...

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Sophia Nicole Feliciano - One Poem

The PastBetween the hours of one and four A rippling, flowing, stream of fragile thought fills the tub of lucid, conscious sleep.Yesterday’s voices become lost in a warbled, untethered folk song of...

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Josef Krebs - One Poem

Glancing homeward through the agesI last longer than I last lastedEntranced by the possibilities that didn't seem possibleAt that time of doubt and external deliberationsStopping the singingIn the...

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Fraser Sutherland - Two Poems

Letter To Jim JonesSome reduction is achievablein documentary impedimenta:your voice, rant, rave.Not that words often do good.Nor did your words.To write about you makes us captivelike those who...

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Ally Malinenko - One Poem

PornI wonder if those hard little tits hurt moreshoved into the mammogram machine.I wonder if they’ve ever had a sonogram,been sung to by that gentle click and whir,sat on the paper-lined tableand been...

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Donna M. Davis - Three Poems

StolenI walked outside and all the words were gone;the neighborhood wasempty of language.Winter snow howleda snaking silence.No one was talkingabout anything that mattered.Unctuous politicianswith bad...

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Sudeep Adhikari - Two Poems

Tree is a FractalscapeA shape of silence stands greenon the skeletal wood-bonesand the other day, it weptthe entire sky, criss-crossed cloudsand her thunderouslightening gloom.A tree is the shortest...

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Carl Boon - Two Poems

The News From Aleppo Walking the mosque wallwhere her father fellto shrapnel, Malek,the girl they call Angel,imagines the Mediterranean.Green expanses, dolphins,islands free of screaming.She would like...

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Francis Annagu - One Poem

CarutuThe blue Carutu riverThrobbs, throbbingFlows, flowing intoBlack canvasses of the garage.The day is full spring inThe scabrous sky of birds,Egrets winging off up upon hills,Peaked pointed hill's...

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Cara Losier Chanoine - Three Poems

Pretty Lies Show Their TeethThe smashed orchid on the sidewalkhas been doctored: beribboned, and dyed.Its petals are wilting, rimmed with dirt.This prom night roadkillkindles memories of itchy zippers...

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Glen Armstrong - One Poem

Golden YearsGrandfather dreamedof a champagnethat would stir rebellionthroughout the vineyard.Grandmother dreamedof a fur that might rejoinand resurrect the animalfrom which it was ripped.They held...

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J. Lewis - One Poem

Filler Textlorem ipsum he saidyou knowthe stuff you usewhen you don't have contentbut you need to seethe lay of the landthe fit of the phrasethe pattern on the pagebut my hearing is goingand i swear he...

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John Mingay - One Poem

DownwindI never couldsplinterthe waxing watersof a certainsingle floodcoming inpoundingeach minutebeyond being goneI never wasstrong enoughfrom anyto othersto have beatenthe morning coldmy breath a...

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Ivan Jenson - Two Poems

Going GreenYou have sharedvery profound insightsinto the human conditionand shown yourselfto be an intellect ofthe highest orderwhileshedding lighton importantdark issueswhile alludingto some...

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John Grochalski - One Poem

Watching The Fat Kid Play Video Games he hasn’t been in here for monthsbecause the other kids were making fun of him this afternoon, they’re leaving him alonecaught up in their own stupid boy/girl...

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Michael Lee Johnson - One Poem

Flight of the Eagle From the dawn, dusty skies comes the time when the eagle flies- without thought, without aid of wind, like a kite detached without string, the eagle in flight leaves no traces, no...

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Greg Moglia - Two Poems

The Silk Nightie The sales associate at Victoria’s Secret is all smilesI ask her the guy question I’m not sure about the sizeShe gives my aged lines that “so you got yourself a trophy” look and...

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Richard Schnap - Two Poems

As The Light Turned GreyWhen the blue haired nurse With the skeleton gloves Asked what concerned you most You replied “pain” and “fear” And I secretly thought That it is true that we Become wise when...

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Liz Glodek - One Poem

It Is Nighttime The stars wonder too, looking down at us,where the dinosaurs have gone.This lonely planet they see, a speck. But whatdelight they get from all of our tumblings.A scraped knee, the ant...

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Mark Niehus - Two Poems

Bluebird and the CageYou measure yourselfagainst the worldduring trips to the Laundromat.You organise your words whileremoving the stains on your shirtand try to keepthe one thing you have in line.And...

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Charlotte Ozment - One Poem

Flood Waters What’s that old saying?water under the bridge....It’s supposed to meanwhat's in the pastis pastno problemdon't worryit's gone, over,forgotten....But have you everlooked under a bridge?I...

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Timothy Pilgrim - Two Poems

My Last Professor (with a nod to Robert Browning)There, see his portrait on the wall. I believe him to be the exception,   not the rule. He lasted fall, winter, almost till spring -- persevered, gave,...

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Richard King Perkins II - One Poem

Pale Necks of Lavender Sweeping almost freely eternal willows respire soon to be tangled by afternoon’s westward moving air swaying pale necks of lavender rustling her blond hair as he skips stones...

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