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Revision is Always an Option - Jen Schneider
There’s a setting for every story and a season for all senses. Though not all pages pair with all potions, and not all parchment promises...
Feb 5, 20212 min read


Dust - Megan Michelotti
1. So many poems were written for you, 2. about you, but none of them with you. 3. You never even cared enough to read them. 4. I guess...
Feb 4, 20211 min read


Baldessari’s Urns - Carson P. Hardy
In 1966, John Baldessari burned his entire collection of paintings. The ashes were returned in Nine urns, One URN was the size used for...
Feb 3, 20212 min read


Anxiety - Reilly Cook
…latches onto the nearest passing thought like a leech on fickle flesh. it won’t pry or peel, but remains stuck like clothing left on...
Feb 2, 20211 min read


Crumble. - Laurie Montemurro
Just when I think I’m done, said everything that can be heard, reached the end of sharing it all Just when I think there are no more...
Jan 31, 20211 min read


Poetic System - Joan A. Vargas
The pumping won’t cease. It pumps. And it pumps. And it pumps. A poetic heart races with creative resilience. Never changing its left...
Jan 30, 20212 min read


Lives Lost in 2020 - Marsha Johansen
Stuart gave David a ride in his cab while still pursuing his lifelong dream creating African American art then bumped into Alan a...
Jan 18, 20211 min read


Singing Waters - Jane Fitzgerald
A weighted sadness Pulled me under How far I didn't know My problems were circling Like sharks contemplating a painful bloody kill...
Jan 7, 20211 min read


Dislocation - Sarah Wyman
There where we walked over stones between cliff face and sea trees stretched our spirits to sunshine, to sky and the stream’s drill awoke...
Jan 3, 20211 min read


Crepe Paper Soul - Mary Elliott
In solitude, Loneliness arrived on time, Whispering to my fears, “It’s too late, In this flesh encasement, To try again.” The problem...
Dec 27, 20201 min read


A Conscious Encounter - Pat McLean-Smith
On my way to work this morning I saw her at the bus terminal crowded in a corner shielding herself from a world that looks down on her...
Dec 23, 20202 min read


Invisible Me - Yvette Dove
You don’t see me standing on the edge, Or what it’s taking me not to fall. You don’t see me ever getting that low, Or how I could even...
Dec 22, 20201 min read
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