I Didn’t Know You Could Sculpt - Evelyn Olmos
your own skin until I walked in on my mother carving herself like clay molding her body into one of a better woman engraving a grateful...
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- Sep 4, 2020
- 1 min
Manic Pixie Dream Girl - Lily Gavazov
People have a bad habit of falling in love with me at bus stops, in taxi cabs, on motorcycles, in secret labs. It saved a lot of money...
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
Black Tears - Jennifer Steen
I will never forget that day, I was only five years old The atmosphere was somber, everyone sad and morose I stood in a building that I...
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
Simple Pleasures - Jeremy Scott
I go on a drive with you. The destination is not known. That’s the point, the journey. Holding hands until one of us realizes that we’re...
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
Conference Meetings - Patricia Mulaney
her legs shook the eyes were fixed on his his gaze followed the tea dripping on her lap conference meetings in a foreign city no such...
- Sep 1, 2020
- 1 min
Mother - Madeline McGrain Githler
The ocean has no time for this You are lost? So am I. And yet you feel alone. You stand up And you inhale Still, salty kindness in the...
- Sep 1, 2020
- 1 min
Period Presence - Emily Miller
Goodbye was like later, loser, don’t let college kill you, and then college killed you. Or the alcohol did. Or the car ride, wasted—I...
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
Without a Name to Hide Behind - Samantha Madway
Your bare, my bones— we’ll never break even. You pronounce repressed like capital offense. You stomp and slam and seethe, take a...
- Aug 30, 2020
- 1 min
A Baking Recipe or Something - Henrriot Jean-Baptiste
Moments from the past are precious specimens. Yet, like mold they eventually fester and spoil swollen mounds of dough prepared to rise...
- Aug 29, 2020
- 1 min
dry eyed, but - Shantha Bunyan
today | even though i have not cried | i feel wrung out | like a dirty dishrag | used and tossed aside | and though i...
- Aug 28, 2020
- 1 min
A Firefighter’s Promise - Michelle Anne
A firefighter’s promise is something I think about almost every day When the man I love goes off on a call, most certainly into harm’s...
- Aug 28, 2020
- 1 min
Flock of Birds - Amanda Baker
When I see a hundred birds I wonder what they say It looks like they all trust The one up front to lead the way I put trust in little...
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