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Mar 16, 20223 min read
Sometimes.... - Anthony Karen
People say I’m quiet and keep to myself, but when I try to share they only hear what they want to hear... or it becomes about them....
Mar 14, 20222 min read
3rd Place Poetry Winner: All the men - Jose Varghese
who were to be my father-figures are dead. I witnessed their burials in the lands they thought they owned. They were the last to know of...
Mar 14, 20221 min read
1st Place Poetry Winner: Meyer Lemon Tree - Robin Kinzer
In the days after we break up, I become obsessed with the idea of planting a lemon tree. I have been cautioned by all of my plant-loving...
Mar 14, 20222 min read
2nd Place Poetry Winner: SOFT OPENING - Cassie Burkhardt
Snapping his fingers at the steaming cutlery before me the restaurant manager says, Dry this, one piece at a time until I can see my...
Mar 12, 20221 min read
weather - Trevor Scott Barton
thunderstorm take my hand, lead me to your secret place, lift up your dress, let me take you from behind like a gust of wind from the sea...
Mar 10, 20221 min read
The Cat’s Shrine - Jeremiah Prenn
Buried in the sax chute Is the long orange cat whisking a bone temple vestigial bird pile humming his mind with another. Mister knows...
Mar 4, 20221 min read
LUCK - Pam Impson
Clover carpet at my feet Curls between my naked toes Greener than an emerald Stolen from its earthy bed Pick and pluck Four leaves for...
Mar 2, 20221 min read
Conversion - Grace Wagner
Cramped quarters, all of us—packed in together, two to a small room. She wasn’t mine— I knew that. Not even my roommate, but still I...
Feb 28, 20221 min read
Bad Debt - Sydney MacDonald
I’m hiding in an accounting metaphor. So here is my internal audit: I hastily finished the financial statements: Balance sheet, Income...
Feb 28, 20221 min read
He suggests going huckleberry picking - A Cerisse Cohen
and you’re worried you’d pick something toxic. City girl: What do you know about plants? He knows a couple that foraged and ate wild...
Feb 26, 20222 min read
Surrogate eater - Jen Yáñez-Alaniz
… how I long for our days of running watching the length of your sinewy strides stretch wide and fast along the asphalt mine yearned to...
Feb 24, 20221 min read
tequila - Kathryn Willoughby
i tasted as sweet as honey and i will forever be stuck to the roof of your mouth and no new woman will ever be enough to cleanse you of...
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