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The Painter, Russell Zintel
CW: blood I watch my cat drag a bleeding mouse across the floor. Ok, the mouse is dead. Any new blood that emits No longer counts as...
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- Jul 11, 2021
- 1 min
The Barn, Sarah Morris Shux
One of my first memories of childhood was watching the barn burn/thick, black smoke escaping into the sky/like a murder of angry crows/my...
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- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Green Lady, Krista Canterbury Adams
Here lies my corpse in the forest: Laid out on the rough stone slab Under a star-whirled sky— Wrapped up tight, arms and legs Bound...
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- Jul 8, 2021
- 1 min
Keep Doing 50, Lisa Treece
Rolling down M25 the road slick with ice out past Port Sanilac dim lights houses we pass remind me of a novel I once read the street...
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- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
Human Fruit, Lisa Treece
CW: self-harm I pressed the wound to watch it leak just as much as feeling the pain the dark spots spreading swollen flesh pulled taught...
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- Jul 5, 2021
- 1 min
The Blistering Horizon, Alex Shenstone
Watch, the sun flies across the horizon. New eyes on old canopies. There is such privilege to be envied here. No boundaries in the trees,...
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- Jul 4, 2021
- 1 min
Treading On Ashen Glass, Alex Shenstone
Glass is like diamonds in a world with no sun. Value determined by beauty. Beauty determined by eye. The eye craving something more than...
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- Jul 3, 2021
- 1 min
Thief Made Of Gold, Alex Shenstone
Espionage by candle in the dead of night. Creaking floorboards. Temptations in low light. Upholstery. Silverware. Soft linen sheets and...
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- Jul 2, 2021
- 2 min
Patrilineal, Luke Wortley
The other night, I tilted the bottle over the edge of the bonfire and watched the smoke plume into my dead grandad’s form, the one I...
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- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min
Holometabolous, Mandira Pattnaik
my sixteen pairs of twins are upon the acacia branches unfed, unclean wrapped in muslin, mummified bodies talking to themselves of...
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- Jun 30, 2021
- 1 min
Gestaltism, Mandira Pattnaik
Today I tap into the day’s remnants like there is no tomorrow. Nothing is whole of anything, greater than parts, like there is no soil to...
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- Jun 29, 2021
- 1 min
Ruskin and the Ghost Over His Shoulder, Jack Bedell
He never minded the mediums themselves, always earnest in their concerns for his loss. Aside from the smell of candle smoke filling his...
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- Jun 27, 2021
- 1 min
voicemails from the casket, Marta Špoljar
CW: mentions of death call off the funeral – i said, i changed my mind, i said, i am not dying. call off the guests, i want time alone...
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- Jun 25, 2021
- 1 min
Red Meat, Erich von Hungen
CW: descriptions of meat The crow tears long sticky strands of red meat from the street, as if the flesh, beneath the concrete skin,...
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- Jun 24, 2021
- 1 min
I Don't Want a Healthy Relationship, Alexandra Grunberg
If you want to steal my heart you must keep it in a reliquary because there is nothing accessible about my denomination of love I’ve...
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- Jun 23, 2021
- 2 min
Never Turn Your Back, Leigh Camacho Rourks
There is a king tide, and the Pacific Ocean is an alien beast tonight, a gorgeous monster god, so different than my beloved Atlantic. And...
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- Jun 22, 2021
- 1 min
Pith, Leigh Camacho Rourks
If you want, you can eat your own heart, teeth rending that strong muscle, but it will stick, it will clot. It is a rough organ that...
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- Jun 21, 2021
- 1 min
Super Blood Wolf Moon, Leigh Camacho Rourks
They’re out there screaming “super blood wolf moon”— no really, every headline—and all I care about is that I’ve become convinced that my...
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- Jun 20, 2021
- 1 min
On Crooked River, Lee Zumpe
Twilight descends on Crooked River, darkness swathes the marsh grass, filters through the surrounding pine scrub. I sense the fragile...
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- Jun 19, 2021
- 1 min
Babi Yar, Lee Zumpe
nearby, office buildings crouch on crushed bones; ribbons of pavement aim to curb the flammable past. nearby, memorial candles dance on...
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