Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 1 - Poetry

Poetry

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Bumper Crop

Pome and human
spawned from seed.
Safe in germination
an embryonic refuge.
Phototropism ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I want to move to a small town.
Somewhere up in the mountains, with thin air and thinne ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

then:

one day i'll be reborn.

into a skin that has never been touched by you,
into ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Upon the streets the rainstorm crackles
Like firecrackers along the pavement
The people run ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Blue has come to visit my hometown,
The unwelcome visitor leaves bookmarks on the worn ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Blood, bile, my shin chimes,
Bone ghost-clangs under grapefruit
Bump. Once, I was blind. ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

What phantom water can revive
the remnants of these roots?
On the brink of being alive, ... [+]