Hands on a Hard Body - Lucy Steward
First published in Poet's Choice. Hands on a hard body, that’s what we were A tangle of broken bones, souls slowly interwoven into...
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- Aug 28
- 1 min
all you need is one good disaster friend - Megan Rilkoff
When the heat wave set records in Albuquerque by 6am, I sat in my closet and called my disaster friend in Chicago. She listened, murmured...
- Aug 24
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Trees are green with drought - Nick Vasquez
Dust clings to shoes pleading to be elsewhere. Still foliage in calm wind and icy water evaporate from lonely cairns of stone. Mist hazes...
- Aug 22
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Pincushion Heart - Aidan Derrico
My heart is that little red tomato On my grandmother’s side table, From which I delighted in Pulling out and pushing in Yellow-headed...
- Aug 20
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Look at This Little Life - Kait Quinn
Every day is the same. Every day sunlight and the cat's hoarse pleas spill through the crack beneath the bedroom door, pool...
- Aug 18
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Not Getting the Nobel - Lina Buividavičiūtė
Today I’m sitting in front of my psychotherapist and crying in all earnestness because I’m not getting the Nobel. Forget that – I don’t...
- Aug 14
- 1 min
A big word for a woman - Ana Neu
My love doesn’t speak, She’s quiet with the door open. And breathes when it's not. My love waits for me, Like the cross on Sunday’s. A...
- Aug 10
- 1 min
A Goodbye Letter - Kiara Nicole Letcher
I wield stories in my body like so many knives on a butcher’s block I am chilly and distant but also lush and abundant mercurial...
- Aug 4
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Route 2 - Lucy Angell Anderson
Maybe you think I’m beautiful because it’s autumn. Everything looks gorgeous when bathed in honeyed light. Your hand cradles the clutch...
- Aug 2
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A Poem for Clara - Kate Phillips
I see your lips close around words of worlds of wisdom, and suck on the history of Neverland and papaya meadow politics, slurping at the...
- Jul 29
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Maybe I Could Have Breathed - Steph Scott
If I had known when I was thirteen instead of hiding behind a door of shame maybe I could have breathed I think I may have even dreamed...
- Jul 25
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Mania, My Mistress - Alesa Bernat
Mania, my mistress - I hide you away from prying eyes lie awake, agitated, unsated you leave me wane and wanting Mania, my mistress - You...
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