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Dec 7, 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...

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Nov 30, 20221 min read

[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...

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Nov 23, 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...

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Nov 15, 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...

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Nov 9, 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...

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Nov 1, 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...

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Oct 28, 20221 min read

Lifting Up the Log #5: "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...

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Oct 25, 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...

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Oct 18, 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...

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Oct 12, 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...

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Oct 5, 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...

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Oct 2, 20222 min read

Wolves in Yellowstone by Lauren Voeltz

I've been watching Dad suffer all weekend in Yellowstone National Park. He hasn't been the same since the divorce. Our campsite is on a...

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Sep 30, 20221 min read

Lifting Up the Log #4: "Slugged" by Annie Cowell

How did you come up with the title? It's a pun, based on the idea of the slug pulling the winning punch. What can you tell us about the...

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Sep 28, 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...

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Sep 25, 20222 min read

All We Eat is Words by Emily Baber

Now all we eat is words. We used to eat sorrel and pawpaw and hen of the woods. We used to grow our own galangal and hot peppers and...

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Sep 21, 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...

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Sep 18, 20223 min read

Seasonal Depression by Sammi Leigh Melville

In my childhood, snow was magic. As the days grew shorter and the temperatures dropped, I became dizzy with the prospect of bright eyes,...

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Sep 14, 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...

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Sep 11, 20224 min read

The Gorilla in the Room by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

When the gorilla arrived at the front door the last thing Edna expected was this desperate hollow feeling inside. She lived day to day...

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Sep 7, 20221 min read

well, i'll eat it, said alice by Ashley Varela

(they/she) is a queer writer & author based in Seattle, Washington.

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