Tag: poetry
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Fault
I want to be the one you run from. / I want you fast enough that I won’t see you. / I want you slow enough that you know I’m coming. Poetry by Aaron J. Muller
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The First Spring
In the beginning they eroded green stars / split and turned them red, hiccuped / the line between what was ancient and / what is palpable. Knocked the wind out of diplomats / Poetry by Sofia Skavdahl
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Eating Ortolans
Second Place Winner in the 2019 Ada Limón Autumn Poetry Contest My first love consumed me / fast, the way an oyster / which slides unbroken past the teeth / is pressed apart by the tongue. / She was the first women my mouth / knew and from the very first, / in that dirty…
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The Gift
Awarded Third Place in the 2019 Ada Limón Autumn Poetry Contest Once, I gave my mother a memoir, I Just Lately / Started Buying Wings. There was a mother in it / like my mother’s mother: cold then slightly warmer / as my mother grew, as her tennis shoes climbed / closer to gas pedal…
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Some Nights We Have the Moon
Runner-up in the 2019 Ada Limón Autumn Poetry Contest There are no swans here, just corn / and potatoes pushing past small- / town dirt. I want to be done / with want, so I tell my feet / to stalk the wheat Poetry by L. Renée
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Rodulfo González #15
color me black with grackle feathers / after the sunset showers of August / when I’m dusting the smell of fresh bread Poetry by Elidio la Torre Lagares
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40 Below
lemon bits float / like a slow / snowfall. I leave / a pile of sunflower seeds / on the sidewalk / a carrot on the stoop. Poetry by Ryan Vine
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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