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Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Perspective

Amanda Bird

Amongst my mother-in-law's hoarded treasures,
a rusted Normal Rockwell tin
weighted down ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

Asymbiotic

Sydney Sackett

Like pasteboard, the seeping planks
buckle underfoot, marked easily
with fingernail or jagged ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Dreamwolf

Matt Dennison

Dare we invite the dreamwolf in,
to jump through our chaste window,
carry us over the midnight ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Madacamia

Kilmeny MacMichael

At first, it seemed a movement of
spontaneous joy;
a pause,
a stretch of arms and hands,
a ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

The Girl Who Spoke Spiders

Sara Amis

I don't recommend it.
You might wind up like me,
with spiders on your lips,
crawling out like ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Romance 1 min Mature Audience

Polyamory in Theory

Koji A. Dae

we spent seven years
planning our route
thieved maps and charts
marked the dangerous spaces ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

A Man Alone

Stephen O'Donnell

Your widow came in to the bank today
Waving the certificate of your suicide around;

I go ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

Plum Island

Jagger Moore

The summers aren't so lonely on Plum Island.
It's me, the plum trees, the plum birds,
and the ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Beyond the Bridge

Robert Bulman

dreaming in San Francisco is like
dreaming inside a cloud
where the promises of our parents ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Mid-American Back Roads

Mountain Nose

Flocks in flight,
Murmurations
Of rippling ribbons
Against rain-full skies
Above the ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

My Aphasic Mother Rides the Rocky Mountaineer

Susan G. Duncan

window seat
facing forward
racing westward on rails;
every twist a next vista
the last ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

The Way Things Tend to Happen Sometimes

Jagger Moore

With a bit of whistling and a roll of the wrist
I slipped into some rusty overalls to go ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Joy 1 min

Awakening

Paula Kirman

she tasted the sweetness of
the morning dew,
and spread her arms
in the wind, while
the ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Number 59

Ehud Sela

At Burger King at night,
We are a few scattered
Among the tables, waiting
Or eating out of ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Romance 1 min Mature Audience

Romance in the Dark

Manny Blacksher

"Now we will find
what the rest have left behind."
—Lil Green

There, not here, is ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Melancholy 1 min

merely players

Davian Aw

if you concentrate
hard enough, sometimes
the fourth wall breaks—
fading just a moment
to ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Vigilant

Claire Bateman

A secret disclosed in art class:
the face is five eyes wide.

You pencil the extras in
and ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

The City of Unknown Poets

Rolli .

If you call on
me
one evening

in the city
of un-
known poets

we'll talk
not a ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Chatter

Mike Hickman

Your voice, too fast, chattering,
clattering against my Self,
breaking into my thoughts, ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Humor 1 min Mature Audience

It's Actually About

Charles Joseph Albert

This bright sun peeking
over the eastern hills
seems to remind you of
the exuberant joy of ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Perspective

Asymbiotic

Dreamwolf

Madacamia

The Girl Who Spoke Spiders

Polyamory in Theory

A Man Alone

Plum Island

Beyond the Bridge

Mid-American Back Roads

My Aphasic Mother Rides the Rocky Mountaineer

The Way Things Tend to Happen Sometimes

Awakening

Number 59

Romance in the Dark

merely players

Vigilant

The City of Unknown Poets

Chatter

It's Actually About