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Aug 27, 20221 min read
Primal Blue - Christen Lee
They say to keep alive the memory of the ones you’ve lost but do they tell you the cost of remembering while also trying to raise the...
Aug 21, 20221 min read
On Being Neglected - Melanie Gilkerson
In the summer of 2000, after we were evicted Mom left us alone to Sleep in her boyfriend’s basement. Used to absence, we played catch in...
Aug 18, 20221 min read
Salt and steel - Maya Weichbrodt
Salt and steel survive in icy blue. Red fingers chapped and cracked by cold parched by endless heat drip with a promise. One that bleeds...
Jul 31, 20221 min read
Alyson Hays - Sunset
My heart strong Beats with life Each day fades With a dying sunset Burning away The waning glow Stops me in my place I wonder why When my...
Jul 27, 20222 min read
2nd Place Poety Winner: The Nice Man - Rabia Kapoor
He seems nice, The man performing cunnilingus On the beautiful, supine woman Who throws her head back because she must And closes her...
Jul 27, 20222 min read
3rd Place Poetry Winner: Toddler on Fire - MARK HAMMERSCHICK
I will not kiss your commie flag a sickly sickle and rusted hammer stuck in the mud hollow scythe dulled with Ukie blood when the steppes...
Jul 27, 20222 min read
1st Place Poetry Winner: magnum opus - Qiqing Goh
the families on tv screens will have you all believe like some gimmicky advertisement from the sixties that all mothers want their...
Jul 25, 20221 min read
I Have to Search for My Aunt's Face - Karen Mandell
in the photos bundled in the back of the drawer. My mother's heart shaped face with wideset eyes leaps out at me in her group of...
Jul 13, 20222 min read
REIMAGINING YOU - Rebecca Larivee
How to explain what I saw in you? My ego so tenuous in those lost, middle years, Everything sugarcoated, just to survive. You lived in a...
Jul 4, 20221 min read
Perfection - Bev Fesharaki
The thrift shop is packed with treasures and I spy the Easter lilies… flat in a basket on the glass top of a lighted cabinet. They’ve...
Jun 29, 20221 min read
“Beacon” - Marleny Averitt
She craved connection. To be in control and free of pain, God, she craved to belong. She prayed for release and summoned strength from...
Jun 23, 20221 min read
Sonic Boom - Karen Mandell
In grade school we'd stare at the clock, the minute hand marching relentlessly, indifferent to our questions: How could a minute last so...
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