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    Three Curses
    Julie Benesh
    • Jul 26
    Poetry

    Three Curses

    I. My mother was 17, cancer-orphaned, about to be married when she saw the blood. She thought she was injured or dying of the family...
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    Spider Legs
    Sophia Falco
    • Jun 8
    Poetry

    Spider Legs

    after Tommy Orange. I would pluck the daddy long-legs from the peeling yellow painted walls placing them in my doll house out of rubber...
    112 views0 comments
    A Poem by Ed Doerr
    Ed Doerr
    • Jun 3
    Poetry

    A Poem by Ed Doerr

    Organizing My Underwear Drawer By Silhouette, Color, & Designer As A Coping Mechanism At the Onset of a Panic Attack Don’t die in a pair...
    116 views0 comments
    Awakening
    Cindy Buchanan
    • Jun 1
    Poetry

    Awakening

    I run beside the bay, a ritual to sift through the accumulation of late night film noir that loops behind my eyes. The sun streaks pink...
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    The Ballad of Swilt Jack
    Julia Alter
    • May 9
    Poetry

    The Ballad of Swilt Jack

    by Julia Alter Child of coyote howl & sediment spilling down a ravine Nobody’s friend friend of...
    53 views0 comments
    "The clarity of the moon, novels and sink" and "Stained Beach"
    Jessica Scirocco
    • Apr 26
    Poetry

    "The clarity of the moon, novels and sink" and "Stained Beach"

    The clarity of the moon, novels and sink It was two months before I didn’t need a mirror to remind me of the curved lines in my eyes....
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    "A hundred yards onto the lake" and "Movement(s)"
    S.D. Dillon
    • Apr 21
    Poetry

    "A hundred yards onto the lake" and "Movement(s)"

    A hundred yards onto the lake A coyote trots across the ice Between the pier and open waters. The wind chill is ten below. Wedges of ice...
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    Underwater
    Walter Weinschenk
    • Apr 21
    Poetry

    Underwater

    I I tumbled through A school of fish, A swirling horde, A silver coil That danced Around me Like a circle of light While, below, Green...
    51 views0 comments
    Spit
    Laura Ohlmann
    • Apr 19
    Contest Winner

    Spit

    Hall light slits the table, your hands on the tabletop, nails splitting at the tips, knot of hair missing from the center of scalp where...
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    "Siren Song" and "The Boat
    Tia Cowger
    • Apr 12
    Poetry

    "Siren Song" and "The Boat

    I haven’t always been a shipwreck—heart chest hasn’t always been locked up with warped sides, rusted keyhole. The sirens sung my father...
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    First Kiss
    Amanda Leal
    • Mar 10
    Poetry

    First Kiss

    At the Pond Apple Slew, we lay beneath a film of sweat, overarching palmetto fronds, my hoodie stretched like a picnic blanket over...
    92 views0 comments
    "I Remember the World" and "Seen Different Ways"
    Linda McCullough Moore
    • Mar 3
    Poetry

    "I Remember the World" and "Seen Different Ways"

    I Remember the World I step out on the porch to hear the woman's voice next door. “Daddy's home,” she calls out. That line drawn across...
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    Saving My Umbrella
    Barry Casey
    • Mar 2
    Poetry

    Saving My Umbrella

    My umbrella is blue and white, with spots of rust where the bones and joints of this ancient pterodactyl have bled into its skin. More...
    81 views0 comments
    Love in the Time of Climate Change
    Ryan Carson & Alexander Harristhal
    • Feb 24
    Poetry

    Love in the Time of Climate Change

    My name is Ryan Thoresen Carson and I am a poet and community organizer in Brooklyn, New York. These poems and accompanying illustrations...
    93 views0 comments
    Dream of the Sailor's Widow
    Arden Shostak
    • Feb 3
    Poetry

    Dream of the Sailor's Widow

    Some nights he comes to me soaked-through, eyelashes blooming with salt crystals He tells me about the whale again, though I don't want...
    102 views0 comments
    "Geography" and "Santa Cruz Wharf, September"
    Louis Faber
    • Jan 17
    Poetry

    "Geography" and "Santa Cruz Wharf, September"

    "Geography" People of the mountain are quiet, some say taciturn preferring to listen for the cry of the eagle, wind whistling its...
    103 views0 comments
    "The Problem of Describing the Caribbean" and "Open Air Jazz"
    Frances Klein
    • Jan 11
    Poetry

    "The Problem of Describing the Caribbean" and "Open Air Jazz"

    If I said stone set in silver / from a roadside stand in southern Utah / black flecks scattered across. . .
    138 views1 comment

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