Category: Poetry
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Aubade for an Alcoholic’s Son
straight, gridded teeth / bit down, / asked me to promise I’ll never / go back to sleep Poetry by Megan DeMatteo
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Delta Blues
the trains left / to go where they go / she wasn’t there / to rattle off with them down the lips. Poetry by Matt Morgan
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What Can Be Controlled
it so happens I am sick of that / way of being: denying my unstrength Poetry by Casey Clague
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Piano Lesson
you touched the keyboard / tentatively with blind fingers, / ten newborn mice, hairless, / vulnerable Poetry by Romana Iorga
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Times You Taught Me about Violence
The time we drank too much whiskey and you dropped / your fishing rod in the river / and you went stone silent for the rest of the night Poetry & Collage by Amanda Hadlock
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milk is for beginners (hebrews 5:13)
i can feel / his picture-book breath / in my ear like a daydream. Poetry by Gabrielle Varela
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These are the Rules and They Have Been the Rules
You agreed to look for lost dogs on signs / and you agreed that we are all lost dogs looking for / each other Poetry by Robert Wood Lynn
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Twined and The Denunciation
Maybe the first / was good enough, loved enough / Maybe a pink fetal Jesus wants / no other home Poetry by Mary Leauna Christensen