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Traveler - Michael Washburn
The train that streams through forest To an inn on a corner Where all seasons raise their voices, Leaves you alone, a novice, unversed in...
Sep 14, 20201 min read
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The Child Poet - Emmalyn Danvers
the child poet grows best in muddy shallows under sunshine with storms on the horizon planted as she was in the forgotten yesterdays of a...
Sep 13, 20201 min read
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Us - Christine Nanfra
I am reminded of yesterday, when we wanted to believe our love was eternal, and time, like reality would never catch up with us. We...
Sep 12, 20201 min read
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Without Cause - Andrea Taylor
Rusted train tracks chug beneath our mud-crusted combat boots imprisoning browned socks and bruised, blistered feet patiently awaiting...
Sep 9, 20201 min read
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Dad - Molly Blumhoefer
lost in a corner of the yard I grow close to what you could have been a mountain discarded tires, splintered lumber, chicken wire, a...
Sep 9, 20201 min read
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Surrender - Shantha J. Bunyan
When people ask how I’ve been Somehow I know That it’s not okay For me to tell them That my eyes seem to have Started leaking Frustration...
Sep 8, 20201 min read
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Born of Pain: A Menstrual Poetry Collection - Holly Easton
My thighs covered in Raspberry jam slip from bed towards the pantry My cervix gifts me A pimple the size of a Peregrine falcon You don't...
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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Waylaid at the canal crossing - Tonya Lailey
I watch the water lift the ships to pass, which explains why I don’t make it to the airport nor to San Cristobal de las Casas, nor into...
Sep 5, 20201 min read
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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...
Sep 5, 20201 min read
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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 4, 20201 min read
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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 3, 20201 min read
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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, 20201 min read
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