Breaking News in Slow Motion by Steve Gergley
On the first day of August, the lake in the forest swelled like the belly of a waterlogged corpse. I sat on the shore and wrote a book...
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- Jun 1
- 1 min
My Boss Asks for My High of the Week by Jaden Goldfain
You’re asking to check my pulse by peeling back my skin and ribs and feeling for the beat yourself; you’re asking for two-in-the-morning...
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- May 26
- 2 min
four hundred words on the future & fragrances & teeth by Savannah Gripshover
i know things are getting bad again when milk chocolate makes my teeth go jazzy, bone whimpering and dazzling in a waltz with the tongue...
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- May 19
- 1 min
Microsonnet of gardening terms by D.W. Baker
sun scorch winter kill heart rot bone meal bare root internode heirloom rhizome overseed scarify cold frame evergreen halophyte xeriscape...
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- May 12
- 1 min
Lady in Yellow by Vallie Lynn Watson
The lady in yellow didn’t dance at the show. Sad. Back in grad school, there was this happy-to-tagalong girlfriend of another student....
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- Apr 21
- 1 min
continental drift by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
at the bus stop the cosmos disintegrates at the edges wind spits a leaf into the gutter swirls it through a galaxy of mud all these dead...
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- Apr 14
- 3 min
Tomorrow's Special by Heain Joung
I am going to prepare one of your favorite meals. You will like it, I’m sure. To start I will put dried anchovies, onions and some...
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- Mar 31
- 1 min
How Sparrows Sing by Tim Murphy
I know I can’t stay hidden forever. I have little choice, even if unseen, must find again my voice and remember, remember how sparrows...
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- Mar 28
- 1 min
Lifting Up the Log #9: moon jelly half evaporated on the sand by Dylan Davies
How did you come up with the title? I wanted something longer that embeds you into the scene and what I have seen before the poem begins....
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- Mar 24
- 1 min
Out of Place by Suzanne Hicks
I was born to live on land like the others before me. For a time, I did, until my legs started to curl just below my knees. It wasn’t...
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- Mar 17
- 1 min
The Lovers by Zainab Kuyizhi
(after Safia Elhillo's January Children - the lovers) Kaffi in the nineties My mother with a vintage square satin scarf tied to her head...
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- Mar 10
- 1 min
Wishing the Horse by David Henson
He’d been wishing the horse his whole life. As a boy, he managed the tail, pinned to nothing out back. As he grew older, the outline of...
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- Feb 25
- 2 min
Sky Teeth by Catherine Roberts
I lie on my back in the clearing, holding a telescope to my eye, tired or dying - I don’t know which. I used to look for them in...
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- Feb 23
- 1 min
Lifting Up the Log #8: Treachery by MJ Malleck
How did you come up with the title? I was thinking about an unreliable narrator and all the stories I tell my kids about when they were...
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- Feb 11
- 2 min
Rinse and Repeat by Hilary Ayshford
He'd always meant to learn to use the washing machine in the flat, but the instructions were a foreign language. His lack of domesticity...
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- Feb 4
- 1 min
Emissaries by Susan Shea
After we broke up actually after you broke up with me my transcendental friend told me that our departed mothers were so upset by your...
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- Jan 28
- 1 min
American Mourning Dove by Elena Zhang
I have a secret I clutch in my hands. It’s that I miss you. Who can I tell – my brother, my coworker, my husband? None of them would...
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- Jan 14
- 3 min
Cameron Diaz is my life coach by Cole Beauchamp
Strapped for cash, Cameron Diaz sold her digital image rights to a start-up called GeneTech. Back then, no one really knew where it could...
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- Jan 7
- 1 min
Forest of Lady Slippers by Andrea Y. Rodriguez
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade ended the constitutionally protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. —...
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- Dec 24, 2023
- 1 min
Campfire Food by Sarah R. New
If reincarnation is real, I want to come back as campfire food. A jacket potato, baked in foil. Rolled out of the bonfire with a large...
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