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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...
Mar 10, 20241 min read
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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...
Feb 25, 20242 min read
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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...
Feb 23, 20241 min read
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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...
Feb 11, 20242 min read
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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...
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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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...
Jan 28, 20241 min read
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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...
Jan 14, 20243 min read
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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. —...
Jan 7, 20241 min read
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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...
Dec 24, 20231 min read
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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...
Dec 22, 20232 min read
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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...
Dec 17, 20231 min read
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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...
Dec 10, 20232 min read
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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...
Dec 3, 20232 min read
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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,...
Nov 26, 20232 min read
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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...
Nov 19, 20231 min read
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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,...
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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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...
Nov 5, 20234 min read
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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...
Oct 29, 20231 min read
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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...
Oct 22, 20232 min read
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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,...
Oct 15, 20232 min read
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