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Poem: "Paraphernalia" by Maya Stahler Jun 7, 2023 Poetry my good pantyhose over your head you are breathing inside of my house steam coils up cause tonight I’m boiling my safety razors in old white vinegar Three Poems about a Brain Tumour by R.C. Thomas Jun 1, 2023 Poetry Canada; Vietnam; Papua New Guinea; straw canopy riddled with mosquitoes in Singapore; Peru; up all night circling on the back of a Paso to the Dreams Are My Social Life by Rupert Wondolowski [Baltimore Book Release] May 30, 2023 Poetry Baltimore arts luminary Rupert Wondolowski's new book of poetry launches this week Three Poems by Atsuhi Ikeda May 26, 2023 Poetry You bend, you bend crudity Low string, backbone The water rise and the Gore of it all, this rippling Score, frothing wind My nothing squall. Can Poem: "Cool Blue-Tiled Pools" by Damon Hubbs May 25, 2023 Poetry the rippling boys in cool blue-tiled pools mark passages north to south dreaming of white cargo and goat’s horns. wind is a tuba, heat a brass Poem: "To Be a God" by Brian Austin May 24, 2023 Poetry Push mud without mathematics Sludge, pus All holes overflown With humanity. We came here And brought music Told stories of gods To the rumbling Three poems by Stacy Black May 22, 2023 Poetry I’m a sucker for small towns where something is amiss. Police smiling too much at the children. Parents who aren’t inattentive or self-obsessed do a Poem: "The Parking Lot" by Travis Hoyles May 15, 2023 Poetry Cars with their side-mirrors marred like the ears of practiced grapplers oxidize on naked wheels. Some have been propped-up with bricks or smaller "Poem, With Holes in It" by 月 Duhem May 12, 2023 Poetry When I think about how death might less darkly find its way, I think about the stippled glasses at my favorite café (into which the pertest "A scribble, a letter, a thank you" by David Hay May 10, 2023 Poetry Breath devours breath and silence, the infinity eyed snake of long winters, girdles my throat, raw from so many imagined hangings. A Scarlett web Poem: "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" by Juliette Sandoval May 5, 2023 Poetry She wages war on the human animal the dirt blessing industrial heaven the weather of utopia is mechanical and spreads my wings and pins me down I Poem: "New Year Same Shit." by Eleanor Ball May 1, 2023 Poetry 1 Even God said, Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. But Caesar and God both have a sketchy concept of ownership. What is more Caesar-like than Poem: "The Badlands" by Juliette Sandoval Apr 26, 2023 Poetry The best of all possible worlds is caught in a war of ideas a maddening mantra a shuddering mantra of discontent The cages shrink between Gaiety and Three poems by James Croal Jackson Apr 19, 2023 Poetry Went to Thursdays with a friend who quit boot camp but hates this bar so left. I am good at waiting in darkness, alone, drinking. Other friends come Two poems by Nate Hoil Apr 10, 2023 Poetry Me and my friends all have places to be, but we all leave our homes at the same time. This traffic jam is made up of all of my friends. Late for the Poetry: "don't waste flares" by Dave K. Apr 5, 2023 Poetry RST rating 1-2-2 i crack open a flare red light splashes across the sand nothing out here but sand and static we could build another ten feet of Two industrial poems by Noam Hessler Apr 3, 2023 Poetry It was by the dock. A sailer, moldering ash, Split in two down the middle. They’d sailed it out across the channel from Essex. Hunting channel Two poems by Stevie Belchak Mar 29, 2023 Poetry Or have I been worshiping suburban propane? Is there something to touching the great muscle of a lip? Will touching it repeatedly make me more Two poems by Keegan Gore Mar 27, 2023 Poetry When you get a chance please reply to the email I sent you last week in which I confessed that I had feelings for your sister the whole time we were Three poems by Francesca Kritikos Mar 22, 2023 Poetry I only search for what I know I won’t find Wash my hands then drink the water I used to watch my body beneath tires My meat wants so badly to be Poem: "The Absorber" by Chadwick Beattie Mar 15, 2023 Poetry I just can’t seem to curb this depression, said my friend Jack. And I know it’s the root cause of the Absorber. The Absorber? You know, that little Prose poem: "Birthdays" by Rob Kempton Mar 13, 2023 Poetry She told me about her bee stings. How every sting was a microcosm of herself. I’d never seen her get stung once, and she’d never brought it up until Prose poem: "beaver dam run or laurel hill" by nat raum Mar 9, 2023 Poetry imagine you are in the teal house in seven springs with the back deck and hot tub and the papered panels of gaudy floral print on off-white, the Three poems by Alex Osman Mar 6, 2023 Poetry This is the site where he drowned Where geriatric paranoia manifested Where childhood boogeymen lurked under rafts Divers’ capillaries were jade Poem: "The Tumbling of Time Like Weeds in the Body" by Logan Roberts Mar 3, 2023 Poetry A variety of fools bolt soup to judgment through a straw, beating a field as exercise. Sweat beads oxidize, a favorable ideology, contorted Poem: "Rock My Laurels" by Carson Jordan Mar 2, 2023 Poetry put your breath back it’s perfectly good enough no big complaints close but no cigar god makes me a vessel for no trust no dents holy tights and a Poem: "brand new super-fund site" by A. Redwood Mar 1, 2023 Poetry for East Palestine, OH driving past the new super-fund site, I note the signage— Pardon Our Dust, Under Review, Coming Soon, DO NOT ENTER— we are Prose Poem: "Gazing at the Ground" by Fortune Amor Feb 27, 2023 Poetry The dagger-toothed moon had scavenged the sun and play-tired hungry children who I confused for ghosts traipsed towards obscure shadows. Distant Three poems by Emily Van Ryn Feb 24, 2023 Poetry She tumble-clunks down the stairs of her rickety house and sits frozen at the bottom. She looks at me, locked and frazzled. Weary. Jaw tight but Review: One Person Holds So Much Silence by David Greenspan Feb 23, 2023 Poetry & Criticism This debut collection by David Greenspan slowly but surely brings into view something — though one cannot say exactly what, at first — about the Three poems by Hana Kobayashi Shapiro Feb 22, 2023 Poetry Step 1: Start with the word, in conversation, but beware, the narrowed branches of the decision tree stoops under some towering stone giant — a Poem: "Zuma Beach (That Face When, That Feel When)" by Z.H. Gill Feb 20, 2023 Poetry HEY! It’s me again, your old sestina’d friend, electric still as always, me that Was the first to find the map to lead me out your eyes, your eyes "Pink Sestina" by Giovanni Feb 17, 2023 Poetry It’s too bad our sun doesn’t go to sleep in Lake Michigan. I’d have reason to spend every evening on the beach. Yesterday, I watched the sunset with Visual Poem: "Choreography for an Apocalypse" by curtis emery Feb 16, 2023 Poetry & Video a poetry performance visualizer written and composed by curtis emery IG: @prosodic_goo/@dthcltsnd Four prose poems by Howie Good Feb 13, 2023 Poetry but find only a crew that parachuted into a Neverland after their plane was shot down last century during World War II…a couple arguing in the Prose poem: "(The Dream Where) I Break His Teeth and He Pays For My Medical Bill" by E.M. Lark Feb 8, 2023 Poetry I am braver there. These bastards do not scare me. Their voices do not crack the foundations of a home I have fought to keep together. Their names Two poems by Phoebe O'Dell Feb 1, 2023 Poetry The uneasiness of My indecisiveness Of rekindling This back and forthness As if the smooth ingest of a rail does sooth I take another shot That Poem: "Simplification of a Dart Gun Tropical Gymnasium" by Joshua Martin Jan 20, 2023 Poetry You grave a conceded forcefield the stock market conceded in the yard of lighter fluid spider brushes spoken like a truly anticlerical autopsy Five tarot poems by Arumandhira Howard Jan 18, 2023 Poetry variety looks like: lying :: :: to the uber driver about my :: :: blood. it’s never about the :: :: wigs matting under the Three Poems by Noam Hessler Jan 13, 2023 Poetry 5 mph 50 miles to anchorage, commute / tainted eyes running toxic / fat caterpillar, / Grub Trucker, / frito-lay logo blaring yellow / white winter Poem: "Kuolema on lehmä (Oui, la mort est une vache), Part I" by Ron Riekki Jan 12, 2023 Poetry Death is a liquor store. What I mean by that is I have hemorrhoids. Is that how you pronounce it? My uncle told me about doing construction and Four poems by Claire Rychlewski Jan 11, 2023 Poetry On honeymoon At the Mall of America Tropical paradise Twin City treasure Pink in the rearview Girlfriend experience Dizzy at the fragrance bar Two Poems by Nate Hoil Jan 9, 2023 Poetry It is good to be here!! And not there, wherever you are. I have alienated myself from civilization by launching myself up into the stars. Anyhoo… Poem: "It Washes Away and then You Find You Are Happy" by Marie Landau Jan 6, 2023 Poetry It was nice to meet your boyfriend but I am unsure about the slope of the driveway it is not easy, requires an emergency break So different Three poems by AN Grace Jan 4, 2023 Poetry Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, Grumble grumble grumble, bang. ‘On my demise Poem: "Ode to Storm, Goddess, Thief, Mutant, Queen" by Steven Leyva Dec 19, 2022 Poetry Ororo, Ororo is the palindrome that saved me Born among the misfits 80’s, the too poor to be punk 80’s, I read reprints of Giant Size X-men and Two Prose Poems by Bobby Parrott Dec 16, 2022 Poetry What’s called skipping stones in the U.S. in Russia is called baking pancakes, in Sweden tossing sandwiches, and in the Czech Republic Throwing Poem: "Deliver Us Undamned" by PJ Dominiski Dec 14, 2022 Poetry Another night of negotiation leaves the left-hand path gored clear, to where the willows laugh, where undead cadres wage people’s war on warm-bodied Three prose poems by Howie Good Dec 9, 2022 Poetry No one I ask wants to talk about it or so much as acknowledge that it exists, advancing without letup in all directions, the whole heaving, seething Four prose poems by David Hay Dec 7, 2022 Poetry There is a heaven in the tears of fruitful sins. Sunken dreams, so full of a living death, wash against my irises. The haloed trumpets sing of the Three poems by Ian Stratton Dec 2, 2022 Poetry Whoever is on the mattress living or dead must not be addressed as such The body bears against the springs and the springs rebuff the body Two poems by Italo Ferrante Nov 30, 2022 Poetry check / the crust of a hourglass planet / focus / an Hubble’s eye view of a hangnail / the sunspots on my back / you ogle mechanically / rather than Three poems by Lindsay Raspi Nov 28, 2022 Poetry An animal not really yours wolf pawing I thought she sent you she sent me what it gnaws to be gone. We were mutilating expensive food tell me what’s Poem: "Arcadia" by J.R. Barner Nov 23, 2022 Poetry Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori - Virgil, Eclogues It was called Arcadia. At least that was what the voice on the other end of the phone Three poems by Arumandhira Howard Nov 18, 2022 Poetry All that was and is and will be— I reject. I rebuke. To have my love follow you on a plane somewhere and have its body come back to me. Poem: "Celebrate Your Transition Into A Lot" by Suzanne Doogan Nov 10, 2022 Poetry In my dream I was the wink That shot past you Just me and my gosh! Happy after our future Because I would also like 50 peaches Proudly endorse the Three poems by Hayden Church Nov 7, 2022 Poetry There is a likeness of his birth as a bull in a China shop. Peking ducks flew from their conditions. If he would have thought of these Three prose poems by William Doreski Nov 4, 2022 Poetry At the pneumatic zoo of synthesis, animals explode into other animals. Sometimes they exchange themselves one-to-one. Sometimes they form whole Poem: "I CAN CONTROL THE WEATHER" by Kate Zeyger Nov 3, 2022 Poetry I CAN CONTROL THE WEATHER I scream into my space helmet. I’m not in space, of course But they’ll let you buy a spacesuit even if you’re Not an Two Poems by Stephen Mead Nov 1, 2022 Poetry “Remain estranged,” advised the albino angel glowing in the dark with candle-perfection for the longest knight of knives yet, her beautifully Poem: "Hanyatlásvég (The End of Decay)" by László Aranyi Oct 27, 2022 Poetry Fancsali pofával hanyatt dől. A merev, hűvös tapintású, örökké gyűrődő műanyagfólián. Viaszbábú, nyolc hústűt Two Poems by Nicholas Barnes Oct 24, 2022 Poetry i can see san cristóbal through candles pleasing phosphor match broomsticks and clouds of champa, clear as blackboard shadows. whoa horsie, can’t Two Poems by Gabriella Garofalo Oct 19, 2022 Poetry Let’s call it a day, shall we, as we’ve been traipsing From waves to clouds, from clouds to waves, Among weeds, and a fire fearing the waves, That Three poems by Joshua Atticus Davis Oct 12, 2022 Poetry kickflip into my heart kiss the gap between us you are so brave you are an angel sent from heaven to shred to enlighten us all on earth a blessing Three Prose Poems by Howie Good Oct 7, 2022 Poetry There was nothing I could do. I was under a car, sheltering from the debris raining down, bricks and glass and chunks of concrete. Until that Poems: Macabre 1-3 by N. Flaherty Kimball Sep 30, 2022 Poetry A dark, surreal series Poem: "Dream Journal of the Arctic Fox" by Damon Hubbs Sep 29, 2022 Poetry Above, the flying machine / wing tracks span between rowan and birch / maintaining territory / new expansion / the steel-trap beak a golden ratio Poem: "Ball[r]oom(n)" by Damon Hubbs Sep 27, 2022 Poetry The palazzo features a balloon room with a thirty-foot high frescoed ceiling. The interplay of mass and void due to a lack of balloons or because of Poem: "professional gastropod" by Leah Mueller Sep 26, 2022 Poetry the slug won the half-marathon by a hair’s breadth. his muscles pumped like pistons, as he escaped each hoe and boot heel. nearing the finish line Poem: "Each voice The tenth [of a] $" by Joshua Martin Sep 8, 2022 Poetry maintain photomontage fingernail clippings. until SALTY structure to maintain ruined wavelength / [in] righteous [of hampers] monocle [accoutrement] Poem: "Mind Muscle and The Two Romance System." by Lish Ciambrone Sep 7, 2022 Poetry Sisyphus isn’t happy he isn’t feeling anything at all not at the moment. Over the years he’s turned his thoughts to marriage each neuron tied one to Poem: "Regardless of an ode,,to whistle diagonally [parachute]" by Joshua Martin Sep 6, 2022 Poetry (shower) , , , , , , , , , , , , , , balloon CONNECTING forms obscure sometimes furniture jelly anarchist luck/lost . . . . fOUnD , , , , TV Poem: "Stuck in a White Spotlight Gallery, Deserted, the Raging Plague outside a Wasteland" by Gram Hummell Sep 1, 2022 Poetry Dream arose out of void Vantablack Sounds arise out of vibrating silence, from where it shivers and slowly picks up The orange dusked air carries Poem: "Monolith made of black paper mâché" by Gram Hummell Aug 30, 2022 Poetry Fanged salts stretch endlessly and forever Pierced veil, no it was rent— (You and I tore it) Crystaline gypsum white, the indigo shrouded Sky hangs Poem: "Bunny Rabbit" by Hayden Church Aug 23, 2022 Poetry Finger split down to my bone My bone juts irresponsible Wrong colors, my bones out Try telling a nurse all about it She’ll tell me, “Why can’t the Poem: "Sacred Vibes" by Aniket Sanyal Aug 23, 2022 Poetry Too hard a heart, for the profundity of a prolonged lightning rod Of darkness-drenched bestial blessings Take two Tuesday evenings, for the pain, Poem: Untitled by Jeremy Boyd Aug 19, 2022 Poetry build that uselessness big and intricate so fine and deep that scale of witness is broken by balance there will be concrete for thee end inbedded Poem: "Knowing the Mouse Might One Day Leave Its Hole and Get the Cheese...It Fills You with Determination" by J. Bailey Hutchinson Aug 19, 2022 Poetry I think I wanted it to be weirder than the sun wouldn’t look at me & so I dreaded every dark morning. Hoped for a goat bone, ichor-whorled; or Poem: "Passes to His Reward" by William Fargason Aug 19, 2022 Poetry Erasure of my third-great grandfather’s obituary, published in the Henry County Weekly on November 27, 1903 he breathed his Poem: "Deception" by Jeremy Boyd Aug 17, 2022 Poetry second guessing illusion is learning weird is good but descriptive is better Twitter: @sp1it Instagram: @sp1it Poem: "Playfully Crinkling through the Leaves Fills You with Determination" by J. Bailey Hutchinson Aug 17, 2022 Poetry Out on that not-acre-or-so, we build a fire & answer no calls save the goose, the owl, the scarlet tanager. Me thumbing a beertab, you echoing an Poem: "Deep End Sonnet" by William Fargason Aug 17, 2022 Poetry I do not know how to say this any way other than I do not enjoy being alive each time I dove from the high dive into the deep end Poem: "Going 30" by Jeremy Boyd Aug 15, 2022 Poetry you are always talking to someone even if they’re not present or a chrome-faced apparition assembled in your digital living room for the sake of Poem: "The Shadow of the Ruins Looms above, Filling You with Determination" by J. Bailey Hutchinson Aug 15, 2022 Poetry My sister ’s stonecrop pales into its neighbor ’s trough, which means it wants more than I ’ve given it, or enough of what I have. Softrot in the Poem: "When the Telemarketer Calls" by William Fargason Aug 15, 2022 Poetry I tell them the person they’re trying to reach has died and this person of course is me and I’m much to my own dismay not dead but I lie to the