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Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Aubade while I Check Your Pulse

Stephen Hundley

If you swim before the children wake
take me along. Though it is you, Folly Beach
lifer, and me ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Ophelia Afloat

Judith Skillman

Her face beneath the glass coffee table.
A marble ornament,
a plated face.
Weigh heavy a ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Melancholy 1 min

From a High Perch, Waiting

Deborah L. Davitt

He climbed a telephone pole first;
next, a cell phone tower,
because he'd heard of ancient ... [+]

Poetry

Romance Nature 1 min

Field Guide for Park Rangers

Chelsea Stockham

How Yosemite can fit
within these four fragile walls,
stretched across the bedspread
with hip ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

When they cut you open, they said you bled stars

Madeline Brancel

The bunny soft glow falls languid,
seeping into the fibers I so tenderly draped
over the prostrate ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

On Paper

Andrea Lemoins

A visit.
Wooded, wooden and magnolia sheltered. Panel lined to be specific.
Breezeless evening ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Memoryial

Andrea Lemoins

In a city of black death, white memoryial cloud clopped to meet me on Broad street. The city ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min

D.I.V.O.R.C.E

Mark J. Mitchell

He lost his second wife in Buffalo.
She hid behind his books and slipped away
on their due date ... [+]

Poetry

Humor 1 min Mature Audience

Seashells

Vrishni Maharaj

She sells
Seashells
On the seashore
Sure, she sells these
Seashells
But does she see the ... [+]

Poetry

Romance 1 min

Ice Age

Irene Wright

It started with your betrayal
your pleas for my forgiveness.
You expected hell fire
but you ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

The Quarrel

Jacqueline Seewald

Sun came out after rain.
Thought I'd never see the sun smile again.
Should have known
it wasn't ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Something

David Rogers

There's something in the woods
the same thing that hides
in the closet
under the bed
in ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy 1 min

Flipside

Hannah Rousselot

If you find my sorrow
keep it. It has been too long

festering and coagulating
and ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

When you needed the work

Sean Mahoney

When you needed the work
But turned it down, had to,
So as to qualify for that SSI
That savings ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Eclipse

Daniel Mark Patterson

I often cling too longingly
during hugs,
hold that hand one awkward
(beat)
too ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

There’s a body in the blueberries

Stephen Hundley

There's a body in the blueberries.
Inside the hedge
from where the bees emerge
and ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 2 min

To My Students

Melinda Brasher

You come to my class at night
Thirsty
You want to learn English
Pass the GED
Find a bette ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

making

LyLena Estabine

the boy says
"where is
your culture?"

like I have
just
forgotten
to put it
on ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Permission to Be Human

Hannah Hayden

When I woke up gravity was gone.
I floated to the kitchen, blender uncapped
my smoothie entered ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

An Interview with My Memories

Sanjana Ramanathan

Q: How does it feel?
A: It's like sinking.
It's sour cherry red, dripping fire down your throat ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Aubade while I Check Your Pulse

Ophelia Afloat

From a High Perch, Waiting

Field Guide for Park Rangers

When they cut you open, they said you bled stars

On Paper

Memoryial

D.I.V.O.R.C.E

Seashells

Ice Age

The Quarrel

Something

Flipside

When you needed the work

Eclipse

There’s a body in the blueberries

To My Students

making

Permission to Be Human

An Interview with My Memories