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Salt, sugar, acid, heat. - Helen Dring
My grandmother was what you would call a full woman – hands as salt pillars pummeling in to a pastry that would always curl in the same...
Nov 9, 20201 min read
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Wondering if fireflies are responsible for the existence of time - Brandyce Ingram
There are fireflies here Spaced like twinkle lights Stationary truths Of gods gone dim And bright again Here we make time Spinning...
Nov 6, 20201 min read
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Vessel For Joy - Jennifer Friedman
Day breaks on this lurid temptress who embodies the world’s soul. She breathes fire mist onto his loins and he is captured in her web....
Nov 5, 20201 min read
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Rust and Luster - Talena McNeely
In the dream I was slowly drifting in a rusted raft, pulling strands of pearls out of a green lagoon clouded with mud. The gleaming...
Nov 2, 20201 min read
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Brooklyn Birds - Nicole Rivera
In his jungle of grown lilies snakes and bamboos spirals dragonblood incense, thumps like steady knocking live maracas and bongos by...
Nov 1, 20202 min read
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Our New House - Sarah Davis
In our new house the carpet was red and thick, perfect for children because it would be so hard to get dirty; I skinned my knees on it...
Oct 30, 20203 min read
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Little Girl - Nazani Cassidy
The pink indoor flowers, Ate them up. Showed them my pretty little ankles, Achilles, anklet. And so on. Became the green they envied,...
Oct 27, 20201 min read
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For the Therapist Across the Couch - Meri Tumanyan
I can only imagine how difficult it is to hear people share latent fears and anxieties day in and night out, travel with them through the...
Oct 26, 20202 min read
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Landscape - Shelley Saposnik
It is a cold March – trees have yet to sprout leaves Here and there an evergreen lends color to otherwise Grey and charcoal trunks and...
Oct 25, 20202 min read
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Pressure - Katy Keffer
Outside my window, planes land deafening, their wings too close to mask the sound. It’s heavy overhead; I gaze, amazed as hushed yells...
Oct 24, 20201 min read
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Papercuts - Ari Augustine
There's a place in my bones where I've buried you, a shallow grave between yesterday and today that will never overgrow with flowers....
Oct 23, 20201 min read
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Burning the Bridge - Julia Knox
Did you know I was watching you, the day the sun set fire to the bridge? You skipped rocks - I was watching you through the dense pine...
Oct 22, 20201 min read
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