Tag: NLR poetry
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Name Your Bird Without A Gun: a Tarot-romance-in-verse
Picture Liberty spinning so fast that (like the blades of an electric fan) her arms / disappear. An except from Emily Carr’s novel-in-verse forthcoming from Spork Press in October 2019
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Ouroboros
Every name I pull out of my hair is a soft / blow to the spine, decibels for Newtons. Poetry by Hannah Seo
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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