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Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

1991, 1992

Zac Kline

Purple Lakers cap,
just back,

from a family trip to Los Angeles.

Or maybe,
we had been ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Evolutionary Fears

Koji A. Dae

I sit in a chair
that melts to nothing
beneath me. I close my eyes
because she says I can ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Melancholy 1 min

The Heron

Steve Denehan

I look out the car window
across night fields

squinting; I can see
lives I never lived ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Who Drew Cats

Sara Amis

Keep in mind there were three daughters,
One graceful and pretty, one fierce and
gallant, one ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Humor 1 min

There Was An Old Lady

Sydney Sackett

Binaural classics on repeat while she
sleeps and writes and eats, and
D, vitamin variety, fo ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Melancholy Romance 1 min Mature Audience

Man on a Mission

Jenny Moore

"I may be some time," he said,
easing on his fleece-lined boots.
We laughed and clinked ou ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Perspective

Amanda Bird

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

Poetry

Melancholy Romance 1 min

Waterfall

Brian Weston

Like a waterfall
Flowing over the aged jagged rocks
It has formed over the years.
The rusty ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

Asymbiotic

Sydney Sackett

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

Poetry

Humor 1 min

Why So Many Rolls of Toilet Paper?

Ryan Gibbs

He said,
"Everyone is buying it like mad."
"And you need another 40 rolls?"
I said.

He ... [+]

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

Melancholy 1 min Mature Audience

On a Sunday Afternoon

Elinor Clark

I muse my bed
deep think to the ceiling

I hungry the biscuit tin
lazy the sofa
watch an ... [+]

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 Nature 1 min Mature Audience

Accismus

Kelly Copolo

Of course, that was the same year the tomatoes never came of age.
They remained that reserved ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

The Last Week of May, and June, July, August

Megan Friedman

when the morning still
brought mist and sweatshirts
hot coffee in mugs
of every shape and ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

Bird Soup

Vera Soltes

Have you met the bird at the end of the rainbow?
I heard it gives great advice.
Every problem you ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Romance 1 min Mature Audience

"O"

Benjamin Rice

o fig, fist of flowers, o ostiole entered

as a wasp might enter it, pollinate it knows
not ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Rumor

Amelia Loeffler

Rumor has it the lake is a graveyard, she says.
There are bones down there, tumbled smooth and ... [+]

Poetry

Nature 1 min

The Gardener

Braden Robison

"Sometimes," he said, trimming a bud,
"You have to interfere.
But every other time,
you simply ... [+]