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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 1 min Mature Audience

Passing from the Light I Glimpse

Matt Dennison

Passing from the light, I glimpse
my daughter in the midnight kitchen
glow, dipping ice-cream ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

The Crosswalk

Kenneth Margolin

Between these yellow lines,
The promise of safety
Retreats before the distraction, impatience, the ... [+]

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 Mature Audience

Darkroom Liaisons

Avra Margariti

The poltergeists come,
one by one,
and they do not know
one another's faces,
only the ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Historical 1 min

An Affair with Vanity

Gwen Holiday

I've always been curious
about the identities of old statues.
The minds
behind the cool ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

An Algonquin Woman Saves Herself

Mary Finnegan

Sometimes, a fishhook
and a bit of flesh
are all you need
to save your baby
and ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Romance 1 min Mature Audience

On Being Gay in Yemassee

Despy Boutris

I'll never forget us
entraining this freight at dusklight
to escape cabbage farms, rusted ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

April Morning With Cicadasong

Despy Boutris

And still I'm traipsing through the fields
of wildflowers and grass and foxtails. Beyond
these ... [+]

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 ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Hungover, after a fight

DS Maolalai

feeling like a dog's
wet breakfast, I comb my hair
and dress in a cleaner
shirt. in the ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

The copper of bones

DS Maolalai

trying my hand
again at Selby Jr.
in my comfortable
apartment
with a balcony
in the ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Melancholy 1 min

School

Mary Tabor

Remember promise
in giant red doors
you saw
while your knees shook
at the edge of the ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Coping Mechanisms of the Supernatural Variety

Avra Margariti

Shall I tell you the story of the man
who loved playing his cello
and hated having to talk,
so ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

The Way Things Tend to Happen Sometimes

Passing from the Light I Glimpse

The Crosswalk

Awakening

Number 59

Romance in the Dark

merely players

Vigilant

The City of Unknown Poets

Darkroom Liaisons

An Affair with Vanity

An Algonquin Woman Saves Herself

On Being Gay in Yemassee

April Morning With Cicadasong

Chatter

It's Actually About

Hungover, after a fight

The copper of bones

School

Coping Mechanisms of the Supernatural Variety