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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Sep 4, 20223 min read
Lost in Landscapes by Rachel Canwell
We have come here to walk, convinced that a change of scenery and aimless miles are the answer, or the beginnings of an answer. An...
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Aug 31, 20221 min read
The Kitchen by Emily K. Iekel
after James McNeill Whistler She stands at the window hair tucked away hands on stone still. Morning light gold through tapping young...
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Aug 28, 20223 min read
Cords by Bethany Jarmul
My newborn is blue, not breathing, her umbilical cord wrapped three times around her neck. “Is she okay? Is she okay?” My voice catches...
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Aug 26, 20222 min read
Lifting Up the Log #3: "As Fast as She Can" by Janna Miller
How did you come up with the title? I really struggled with titling this one. After ten odd assortments of random words, these kind of...
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