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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...
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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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...
Oct 25, 20221 min read
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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...
Oct 18, 20221 min read
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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...
Oct 12, 20221 min read
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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...
Oct 5, 20221 min read
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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...
Oct 2, 20222 min read
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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...
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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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...
Sep 28, 20221 min read
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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...
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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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...
Sep 21, 20221 min read
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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,...
Sep 18, 20223 min read
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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...
Sep 14, 20221 min read
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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...
Sep 11, 20224 min read
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well, i'll eat it, said alice by Ashley Varela
(they/she) is a queer writer & author based in Seattle, Washington.
Sep 7, 20221 min read
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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...
Sep 4, 20223 min read
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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...
Aug 31, 20221 min read
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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...
Aug 28, 20223 min read
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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...
Aug 26, 20222 min read
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Self-Portrait with Bluebird by Mikey Swanberg
-for franklin k.r. cline the snow shut the woods up for once & now everything is wet my boots & socks my cute little gloves all afternoon...
Aug 24, 20222 min read
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Cherries in the Snow by Katy Goforth
The old neighbor lady passed on a hot Monday morning. No one found her until the Mobile Meals breakfast and lunch stacked up against the...
Aug 21, 20223 min read
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