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1st Place Poetry Winner: Meyer Lemon Tree - Robin Kinzer
In the days after we break up, I become obsessed with the idea of planting a lemon tree. I have been cautioned by all of my plant-loving...
Mar 14, 20221 min read
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2nd Place Poetry Winner: SOFT OPENING - Cassie Burkhardt
Snapping his fingers at the steaming cutlery before me the restaurant manager says, Dry this, one piece at a time until I can see my...
Mar 14, 20222 min read
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weather - Trevor Scott Barton
thunderstorm take my hand, lead me to your secret place, lift up your dress, let me take you from behind like a gust of wind from the sea...
Mar 12, 20221 min read
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The Cat’s Shrine - Jeremiah Prenn
Buried in the sax chute Is the long orange cat whisking a bone temple vestigial bird pile humming his mind with another. Mister knows...
Mar 10, 20221 min read
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LUCK - Pam Impson
Clover carpet at my feet Curls between my naked toes Greener than an emerald Stolen from its earthy bed Pick and pluck Four leaves for...
Mar 4, 20221 min read
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Conversion - Grace Wagner
Cramped quarters, all of us—packed in together, two to a small room. She wasn’t mine— I knew that. Not even my roommate, but still I...
Mar 2, 20221 min read
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Bad Debt - Sydney MacDonald
I’m hiding in an accounting metaphor. So here is my internal audit: I hastily finished the financial statements: Balance sheet, Income...
Feb 28, 20221 min read
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He suggests going huckleberry picking - A Cerisse Cohen
and you’re worried you’d pick something toxic. City girl: What do you know about plants? He knows a couple that foraged and ate wild...
Feb 28, 20221 min read
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Surrogate eater - Jen Yáñez-Alaniz
… how I long for our days of running watching the length of your sinewy strides stretch wide and fast along the asphalt mine yearned to...
Feb 26, 20222 min read
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tequila - Kathryn Willoughby
i tasted as sweet as honey and i will forever be stuck to the roof of your mouth and no new woman will ever be enough to cleanse you of...
Feb 24, 20221 min read
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End of the line - Mackenzie Durkin
I told my mom about it So that means our friendship Is officially over She’ll never forgive you Even if one day I do Right now I don’t...
Feb 22, 20221 min read
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resonanting flautando - Lauren M. Hancock
I’ve been becoming more the more I realise I don’t need to store those angsty jealous feelings there’s so much in store in life if I...
Feb 20, 20222 min read
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