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Our Legacy is Strong and Deep - Nancy Francese
We are tulips and daffodils and roses and petunias. We share borders but have no boundaries. We are all different, yet all the same....
Apr 23, 20212 min read
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Echos of the Past - Jayde Reynolds
Dreams of silver Echo in your mind Mirrors turned towards an infinite void Cactus pricks of joy leave your skin flushed Memories etched...
Apr 22, 20211 min read
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Passive : Aggressive - Adele Evershed
The sea roses glob up on the foot of the slab And the driftwood about us has piled in irregular rhythms Remains of not so ancient...
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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When we talk about our mothers' bellies - Kate Swisher
When we talk about our mother’s bellies We lay on our backs by the window in spring, watching a crystal prism charged by the sun slowly...
Apr 19, 20212 min read
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Pantoum: Glass jars were made to be broken - Taylor Mehling
My body can’t hold everything inside me. My mind: a twister contained in glass. My skin: that glass jar cracking, I’m a small fish,...
Apr 18, 20211 min read
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Your Mother Raises You - Sabina Lindsey
A baby bundled like a human burrito stares at the pizza in my greasy hands and I am embarrassed for thinking a baby will judge the way I...
Apr 17, 20211 min read
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Poetry by Nicolle Chantal Moffat
I Remember the Time Adrian Told Me there’s a Certain Kind of Magic To Cities Warm Enough to Wear Shorts Every Night once the clothes have...
Apr 15, 20212 min read
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Empty - Anna Stolley Persky
When I’ve had enough, I beg for help, so the doctor slices through my abdomen, yanks two putrid-ripe babies through my flayed skin – They...
Apr 8, 20211 min read
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The Paper Words - Lydia Landrum
Sometimes I find myself Trying to put words to the sensations I feel inside myself Like when my heart is racing I put my hand Over my...
Apr 5, 20211 min read
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What Makes me a Woman - Anna Raymo
I will never love another man as much as you I know what they sing about when they sing about being weak It is weakness brought on by the...
Apr 3, 20212 min read
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The Problem of Dido - Sarah Bricault
I have only these hands, the span of my palms in which to hold you ten fingers to cup and cradle your curves trace the lithe stretch of...
Mar 26, 20211 min read
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Roosevelt Island Revisited - Losey Pezzullo
On the promenade Cherry blossom petals litter the ground, Various shades of bruised, decaying pink, Others float in the air, The new neon...
Mar 25, 20211 min read
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