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, 20231 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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Dec 22, 20232 min
Lifting Up the Log #7: 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...
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Dec 17, 20231 min
I’M NOT SAYING YOUR GARDEN IS FULL OF SNAKES, BUT I’M ALSO NOT SAYING IT ISN’T by Ian C. Williams
After the move, I inherited a garden— every bed overgrowing its edging stones with weed and tangling vine, withered tendrils and twisted...
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Dec 10, 20232 min
When the Stars Fall by Cathy Ulrich
The stars, when they fall, fall like rain, like broken-wing birds, like falling stars. The sky goes velvet black in their absence. They...
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Dec 3, 20232 min
heatwave warning by Arushi (Aera) Rege
and this is how it goes, my skin stuck to the sofa, my thighs slick with sweat, my bra soaked in the sun. so it’s summer, so it’s a dry...
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Nov 26, 20232 min
Mama's Car by Ariadne Will
I’m walking in the rain when I start humming that song from Mama’s car all those years ago. We had only listened to cassette tapes then,...
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Nov 19, 20231 min
I check my clothes for spiders by Lynn Finger
In the morning, and the little ones look like eyelashes as they float down. More eyelashes should float. They say I need to forget you...
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Nov 13, 20232 min
Things You Own by Maggie Hart
I meet a man obsessed with bones. He runs impatient fingertips over my ribcage & grabs my hip bones & kisses my teeth instead of my lips,...
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Nov 5, 20234 min
Three poems by Wanda Deglane
entomology Figure 1. My cousin tells me about her new garden and the little commune of fuzzy spiders that lives there. How they follow...
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Oct 29, 20231 min
Stars Falling in an Empty Field by lae astra
After a day's hike, you arrive and head straight for the center, where the tiny star sits crying in a dimly lit heap. All of the other...
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Oct 22, 20232 min
Spectacle by Lydia Gwyn
I saw them all–their heavenly bodies glowing above the dark gap where we lived, the open-mouthed land built by thrusts and faults and...
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Oct 15, 20232 min
Love, Cigarettes, and Lavender by Claudia Wair
I remember how much I loved to read as a kid. Books took me from my solitary life as an only child and transported me to Dickens’ London,...
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Oct 8, 20231 min
Running for the Bus, with Snails by Brittany Thomas
‘Because the world is so astonishing, the snails — to take just one of the many possible examples — are so short, and it is all too great...
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Oct 1, 20232 min
I, a Piper by Landon Wittmer
An indefinite number of rats populate the world. All estimates fall in the billions, but this does not include the number of mice,...
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Sep 24, 20231 min
Three types of rocks by Devaki Devay
Igneous: The way I began to love you was igneous, something molten bubbling over the cracks, into the air of me. I held it in my palms...
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Sep 17, 20233 min
Bitter Birds by Bucket Siler
Lock your bicycle in the alleyway where the restaurants empty their trash. Food truck exhaust mixed with garbage smell and the pavement...
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Sep 10, 20234 min
I'm the Squid by Angela Townsend
I have a friend who never uses the word “creatures.” I’m not sure I’ve heard him say “living things.” If he is speaking of humans,...
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Sep 3, 20231 min
The Rent in the Galaxy by Travis Flatt
When Earth wakes up thirsty and reaches for the nightstand and can't find the glass she always sets out the night before, she'll think,...
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Aug 27, 20232 min
Signals by Mikki Aronoff
The teacup rattles on its saucer as it crosses the space between wife and husband. The wife raises her eyebrows for a refill, then...
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