Our Years of Golden Horses by Lynn Mundell
When one of them was 8 and the other 9, they drew horses on the printer paper one of the dads brought home from his office. Green horses,...
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- Jun 28, 2023
- 1 min
these aerial views— by Abbie Doll
mountain ranges reduced to anthill craters, sprawling suburbs compressed to crop circle parking lots everything shrinks (up here) every...
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- Jun 21, 2023
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Dear Bottlefly by Eric Fisher Stone
Your wings murmur hymns that the dead return to life, your body’s gleaming bean robbing the rabbit’s eye. Your feet’s rancid needles rub...
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- Jun 14, 2023
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The Garden Stirs by Devon Neal
In dark December, stiff January, it’s always a brisk walk to the car to start and turn the heat on, or the weekend grocery trips, the...
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- May 10, 2023
- 1 min
Two Poems by Erika Seshadri
MURMURATION the firmament welcomes flight in dim light of fading day, when starlings return to roost staccato chirps give way to...
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- Apr 19, 2023
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on (fish) murder as one of the fine arts by Prema Arasu
the marine biologist is an expert fish assassin— icthyocide is an artform and he has learned from the masters. none but the rarest, most...
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- Apr 12, 2023
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Carnival by Laura Grace Weldon
after Danusha Laméris The game dupes us all at first. We play hard, scars fading faster than their stories, time’s twirl only a number. I...
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- Apr 5, 2023
- 1 min
the disservice of swallowing by Isa Pineda
my ungrateful tongue, its surface area taste insults the decadence of your golden mango flesh to your richness, heaping mounds of bazaar...
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- Apr 3, 2023
- 2 min
Along the Periphery by Hema Nataraju
You say you can’t bear to live with my parents anymore. I love them, but I choose you, so we move out of their warm basement and into an...
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- Mar 29, 2023
- 1 min
Coping by Sarah Roth
After Hanif Abdurraqib An endless room with endless windows / and the view outside is just better out of some windows than others / at...
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- Mar 26, 2023
- 4 min
A Baptism by Nathaniel Spain
Follow the irrigation ditch beyond the railway line and you come to a thicket of willow trees. Between them the hem of a chain-link fence...
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- Mar 22, 2023
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Plant Food by D. W. Baker
I would be a plant in your garden and be happy for a short life, hearing nothing but your thoughtless song, watching you feel the sun...
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- Mar 19, 2023
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Sextant by Debra Mihalic Staples
In 1905, Mina Benson Hubbard led a successful expedition across the Labrador wilderness, then published A Woman’s Way Through Unknown...
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- Mar 15, 2023
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Allahabad, Almost Winter by Jayant Kashyap
after Jack Gilbert* We come home every morning after a walk, small marks of sweat in the underarms of our t-shirts; our lips entering the...
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- Mar 12, 2023
- 3 min
Keeper of Magic by Emily Holi
Oops! usually followed by a wink. A few times a month. How do you keep them all straight? Weekly, probably. Have you ever heard of...
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- Mar 8, 2023
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FIG TREE FRUITING ALONG THE RAMAPO FAULT by McCaela Prentice
I want to push our cities together like tectonic plates. under a fig tree in Greenpoint the light is looking strangled and my dress in...
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- Mar 5, 2023
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The Friends You Had Before You Had Friends by Jeanine Skowronski
They were heart-shaped lollipops stuck to your jumper, black raindrops splattered up your calves and across the hem of your Sunday best...
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- Mar 1, 2023
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Cold moon murmur by Annie Cowell
As the moon lifts her swollen self into the dulling sky, some ancient stirring pulls me to the wilderness, where, like an augur, I root...
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- Feb 24, 2023
- 2 min
Lifting Up the Log #6: "A Splitting Open" by Alaina Scarano
How did you come up with the title? It came to me as I thought of the parallels between birth and sexual intercourse, between being a...
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- Feb 1, 2023
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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-...
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