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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Apr 143 min read
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 311 min read
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 281 min read
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 241 min read
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 171 min read
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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