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Jan 15, 20231 min read
Marigold - Phoebe Brookes
Marigolds tied tightly together morning dew dripping from every petal. I picked them for the man on the corner whose needles lay...
Jan 11, 20231 min read
The spring I turned thirty-five and took up running - Michael Favala Goldman
Cooper River Park, Cherry Hill, NJ for my mother I was standing with the river rats, everyone saying what state of marriage or divorce...
Jan 9, 20232 min read
3rd Place Fall Poetry Winner Prometheus, Daughter of Immigrants - an. phan
I don’t think I have a motherland, just a strange monster in my imagination, stitched together with a Frankeinsteinian arrogance to...
Jan 7, 20234 min read
2nd Place Fall Poetry Contest Winner: NINE TYPES OF SILENCE - Alison Davis
1. We all share the same reason for being here. The chairs are arranged in a circle. The doctor seats herself in one of them. The plastic...
Jan 5, 20232 min read
1st Place Fall Poetry Winner: Saint Clément’s Drug Unit, 1969 - Jonathan Callies
After Mary Ellen Mark At the Alano Club, a child of seven, I remember my mother sharing with a group of strangers and family that the...
Jan 3, 20231 min read
The Tale of a Fat Ugly Crow on a May Afternoon - Joanne Jagoda
In front of my living room window, on a splendid May afternoon, warm and sunny, a fat black crow rapturously caws over its good fortune....
Jan 1, 20231 min read
When He Was Smiling - Emma Newman-Holden
You were never afraid of him when he was smiling How could you be? The curve of his lips, begging yours to curve as well The creases...
Dec 30, 20222 min read
I wish we were having dinner together right now - Padya P.
Like a knife sliding down a slab of butter that’s been sitting out in a counter on a hot day My brown eyes melt into your green. We hold...
Dec 21, 20221 min read
It’s a Full Cycle - Julien Griswold
Hold me, hold me, hold me like my laundry machine. My washer and my dryer and my mother who taught me how to fold sheets. They require...
Dec 17, 20221 min read
hiccups - Ayin Es
this morning I watched a crow on a telephone wire act strangely I’m pretty sure he had the hiccups there was no other explanation I...
Nov 24, 20221 min read
The person behind the counter - Swetha Amit
The grocery shop is packed with treasures and I spy on the box of goodies on the counter next to you they look delicious and tempting...
Nov 22, 20221 min read
A Question to the Tea Leaves - Ruth Towne
In the teacup, only a teaspoon of liquid remains, almost room temperature now. My left hand lifts the cup, my eyelids drop for a moment....
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