GASTROPODA

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a flowering, multiplying thing by Mike Keller-Wilson

Hope is hard. We imagine it must be planted in the rich, wet earth, sheltered from frost and hail and the scorching heat of middle-day....

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Dec 141 min read

blizzard by Livio Farallo

the tree line is an old eyebrow behind a faceless snow. a truck swerves to miss someone fallen, shovel flung in the air. the flakes try...

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Dec 72 min read

The Loch Ness Monster by Margaret Emma Brandl

Maybe you don’t believe in the Loch Ness Monster. Maybe you’ve never thought to. There’s a lot to concern yourself with in the sixth...

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Nov 301 min read

Two Poems by James Croal Jackson

Holiday Socks Sitting alone again, in my apartment, my reflection in the turned-off television. The red tips of my holiday socks (raptors...

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Nov 232 min read

Every Ending by Phebe Jewell

Alone in her room, Gladys traces the edge of the world, picturing a wall with a sign: “The End.” She watches herself climb to the top of...

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Nov 181 min read

Self-Portrait as the Last American Stagecoach Robber by Natalie Marino

An outlaw, a swindling hero, I was also just a woman. Born with all the privilege a girl could have, I looked up at the evening sky for a...

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Nov 91 min read

We Thought We'd Always Have the Mountains by David Henson

We never imagined life without them. Then one day, with no eruption or rending of earth, Poof — peaks, slopes and valleys are fields,...

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Nov 21 min read

So where are you from by Nora Nadjarian

Why don’t you tell us so tell us so we know where you come from so we know how to talk to you so we know what you do for a living so do...

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Oct 262 min read

Wake Robin by Amy Allen

The snow has finally left us—the last bit of it melted into a puddle at the top of the driveway. Foraging robins scatter across the...

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Oct 252 min read

Lifting Up the Log #10: What Do You Call This World by Laura Titzer

How did you come up with the title? The title was actually where the idea for the poem derived. During a specific meditation practice the...

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Oct 202 min read

Escalator Love by Zoha Sh.

after Hanif Abdurraqib God, I can no longer tell the difference between divine intervention and wishful thinking. Perhaps that’s proof of...

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Oct 122 min read

How To Have a Crush by Alison Wassell

Smile sweetly when his bag whacks you on the head as he makes his way to the back of the bus. Whisper ‘no problem’ even though he hasn’t...

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Oct 51 min read

Move through Your Grief As If Through Water by Sumitra Singam

Move through your grief as if through water. Clench and kick and tread through its density, feel the salt wash over you, sometimes a...

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Sep 212 min read

I Try Searching for You in Definitions by Michelle Li

Faces chalk white and bone, we sit behind the casket, the sorrow in the room enough to cradle our bodies the same way the marble sky...

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Jun 91 min read

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 11 min read

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 262 min read

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 191 min read

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 121 min read

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 211 min read

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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