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Sky-blue with orange swirls, Lynn Finger
Zimmer says the marbles talk to her. She does her schoolwork at her neighbor’s, Mrs. Bead, the retired piano teacher. Zimmer’s parents...
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- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Hecatomb, Ren Gay
Hours after the dishes and knives have all been scrubbed clean from the feast and even longer after the pulling the innards from the...
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- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
And playing the role of herself, Ren Gay
I recast myself again and again in silver, in bronze, in flaking gold leaf. To be someone, stained glass light coloring in white space....
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- Mar 30, 2021
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graciousness and deceit, Ren Gay
Snapdragons have enough forethought to turn to skulls as they die and I am sorry I am so stuck upon morbidity but I grew up in a place...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
Rubus fruticosus, Charley Barnes
Rubus fruticosus | Monster The sailor had heard things about the stench; slick skin, that which made up the monster, let it rush through...
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- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Petit Matelot, Lorelei Bacht
I died on a submarine, suspended Between layers of dark, not quite A grave, not even a sand bed, sand box, Sans coffin or remorse from...
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- Mar 27, 2021
- 1 min
trust no-one, Jane Ayres
my precious gem he said my bestest little girl Lizzie’s not been seen since taking a detour under the viaduct to keep the rain off her...
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- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
thief, Jane Ayres
you took my breath away a dandelion tangle of flowery shyness snipping the tips curving the edges of unrequited love now when we meet...
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- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Requiem, Stephen Golds
With all the doors locked, the curtains drawn. The television on mute, the clocks wound down. I thought I saw myself a ghost in this...
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- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
Night in the Unoccupied Lot, Michaela Mayer
something moving among the far pines. not their drooping boughs, but between them. a lifted head, huff of breath—or susurrus of wind,...
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- Mar 21, 2021
- 1 min
Pre-Anthropocene, Michaela Mayer
to be an insect trapped inside its doom ambered forever sticky & translucent or a mammoth in tar black as molasses sugars the pit of my...
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- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Memento Mori, Michaela Mayer
With the salt slip of wind on my cheek I saw the skeleton. Buried in grey muck beside the beach, cattails waving on either side, the...
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- Mar 19, 2021
- 1 min
Two Fears, Anna Fullmer
I used to be just a ball. Now, I am tethered to you by a fine, shimmering string. How easily you could cut me off— While we sleep,...
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- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
The Scud Man, Anna Fullmer
He stays in the downstairs unit of our should-be-condemned house with a slumped Rottweiler named Charles. They both look like living...
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- Mar 17, 2021
- 1 min
Funeral of Flies, Sam Roberts
Funeral of flies on their backs by the window they all died, trying Two blackbirds, one song raindrops beading on feathers yellow beak...
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- Mar 16, 2021
- 1 min
At Sunset, Matthew Schultz
The wolves prowl our property line, stalking us with hungerlust, their gaze arrests like the dying clutching at their final breath....
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- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
How I Learned About Men at a Young Age, Lynne Schmidt
Lynne Schmidt is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. She is the...
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- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Bleeding Milk, Marilù Ciabattoni
Previously published in The Matthew, 2018-19 Marilù Ciabattoni is currently pursuing a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in...
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- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
The Night Couple, John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Orbis, Dalhousie Review and Connecticut River Review. Latest book,...
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- Mar 7, 2021
- 1 min
The Man At 123 Boyd Lane, John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Orbis, Dalhousie Review and Connecticut River Review. Latest book,...
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