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Grief Poem by Bhavya Bhagtani
My mother knows a trick that turns grief to sugar and she hides it all in her ageing spine. Last winter, a sadness drenched my father-...
Feb 1, 20231 min read


Cancer Diary, Geese by Jack B. Bedell
Why do the geese cross the road to the clinic? To get to the other side where the grass is taller and full of feed. They have no idea how...
Jan 25, 20231 min read


Autumn Walk by Christina E. Petrides
The fallen leaves scatter like chickens. A squadron of ducks floats on the river, silently paddling upstream, hunting among the rocks and...
Jan 18, 20231 min read


A Charming Coterie by Catherine O'Brien
Less make-believe and more, belief-making - is the sea’s love for me. Under a commotion of jealous stars, it rushes around me emptying...
Jan 11, 20232 min read


How Should a Person Be by Emma Burger
Emma Burger is a writer, healthcare professional, and end-of-life doula. She splits her time between Ann Arbor, Michigan and New York...
Jan 4, 20231 min read


Listening to Snail Shells by Faye Brinsmead
The restaurant is called La Petite Escargot. When the chef’s daughter starts learning French, she tells him the name is wrong. “Escargot”...
Dec 21, 20221 min read


haiku for the stickbug as an artist by Jack Apollo Hartley
In whorls of tea-grass, here is where he’d stripe his line of spotted brindle. Born of a paintball ootheca—spread to splatter, hundreds...
Dec 14, 20221 min read


To the Dusky Slug (Arion Subfuscus) by Erin Bryant Petty
You are gorgeous, actually in ochre and gold the way the light holds you, glowing like a firefly under frosted glass, the ripple of your...
Dec 7, 20221 min read
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[I've always lived by water] by Sharmila Voorakkara & Ron Riekki
I’ve always lived by water so that means there’s always been an exit. The promise of distance slipped under my skin, so I can barely...
Nov 30, 20221 min read


impatiens capensis by nat raum
i hate to wear orange but i can never resist picking the jewelweed flowers which dot the green of county riverbanks—one of five or so...
Nov 23, 20221 min read


More Like the Bat by Wren Donovan
Hollow like the leg bone of a bird Fragile like the finger bones of bats Both options offer lightness and allow for flight. Spaces ribbed...
Nov 16, 20221 min read


Brontë by Alyssa Walker
The way your chicken pox scar looks like my name, tattooed across your heart. I joke it’s intentional, you love me, can’t live without...
Nov 9, 20221 min read


google seach history by Steve Barichko
oldest video ever recorded lost video 1920s france restored remastered monks in a poppy field colorized photo 1850 cameron diaz nip slip...
Nov 1, 20221 min read


Two Poems by Rachel Tanner
Leave the Light On Thank you for loving me even when I was easy to love. Did you think I was going to say thank you for loving me when I...
Oct 25, 20221 min read


Hang Your Daughter's Clothes on a Line by Renée Agatep
my girl, when you grow, if for no other reason to admire how her trousers can still be clipped seven to a row on the drying rack, how...
Oct 18, 20221 min read


hold the line by L.M. Cole
the margin snails the margin shells edged serrated not a knife they have not split flesh spilt blood and...
Oct 12, 20221 min read


Driving in the Desert by Suzy Eynon
My sister and I drive home in the desert on Lone Mountain Road. We approach a dip in the street as a sea of hornworms—Manduca...
Oct 5, 20221 min read


Two Poems by Caroline Lazarova
Indigo keep trying to fill the space between cigarette breaks with whatever makes you feel alive and I’ll be there carving my name into...
Sep 28, 20221 min read


The Witch (to Descartes): Cogito, Ergo Sum by Jessica Khailo
It’s different when a witch is dreaming. So, I’m careful to think of the future in what-ifs and vascular networks. Transient, diverging...
Sep 21, 20221 min read


I want to be timeless by Elena Lucia Perez
free to move between earth and sky, playing among the stars, never once considering the positions of the sun and moon in relation to my...
Sep 14, 20221 min read
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