Category: poetry
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Two Poems
by Angelica Liu ObliviousIt began with–a dumb pain, as ifa nip in heartand then–a silent scream, as ifa struggle underwaterand then–a static breakdown, as ifa dying without witnessand life just passed on,obliviously A Life Like a PlantTime grows wildly hereIt creeps over meand crawls on the floorIt clings to the furniturelike vines intertwineIt climbs around…
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The Invasion
by Holly Day The caterpillar crawls along the leaf, a promise of butterfliesthwarted. Rough, orange knobs cover its back, a rash of wasp eggslaid just days before. At any moment wasp larvae could hatch and split through the caterpillar’s soft, emerald skintumble clumsily across its helpless body, devour it so slowlyuntil only a dead, empty…
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Two Haikus
Rachel T. Smith is an American writer and physical therapist temporarily on assignment in Germany. She is a writing wanderer, traveling the world, finding tranquility in movement. She writes poetry, fiction, and anything that catches her fancy.
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Poet’s Prayer for an Inner City
by Steven Croft Sing us softly from this ash into the vanishing point of the future, ride us like a drunk in a ragtopped convertible to the horizon, leaving any wrecked lives, our manic journey flush with expectation, let lives be lived in the form of telling a story, so all dreams are possible, march…
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Pond
by John L. Stanizzi 4.21.202011:51 AM59 degrees Pleasures of greens – fields, new leaves, pastures of skunk cabbage, occurrences of repeated splashes and ripples just after the frogs have leapt; nicknames for plants – bittersweet, virgin’s bower, pussy-toes, harebell, and diving wobblers, the polliwogs, are back today, flashing and flaring at the shoreline.&& John L.…
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Haiku by Hadi Panahi
Soldiers on the way, picking raspberries towards the shooting field & Hadi Panahi Hadi Panahi is a PhD student of psychology, living in Tehran, Iran. He writes poetry, in particular short poems. His work has been published in Better Than Starbucks (July 2019), Gyroscope Review (Summer-2019), Metafore (Spring 2019), Rigorous (2019, Volume Three, Issue 3)…
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Corner of My Brain
by Vanessa Maki Vanessa Maki Vanessa Maki is a queer writer, artist & blk feminist whose work has appeared or will appear in various places. She has self-published chapbooks & has several chapbooks forthcoming or out this year: the chosen one (Animal Heart Press), sweet like limes (Bone & Ink Press), decayed state (marlskarx) &…
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One Precious Stone
by Seth Jani No more do the animals routin darkness. They go before usblind and ecstatic, carrying theirprimal secrets.We lose everything with their power.The shine of otherness is our only heart.We cast the fishing line and pull upold tires. It’s not funny like in the movies.This world is unbearably sad.My niece will never knowthe true…
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Sunset
by Sarah Mackey Kirby You caught me in the trawler of your sapphire stare. Kissed scars on battered heart that struggles more and more to beat. And blood to bleed. Where broken nights await you. This fate. This love I’ve watered till roots dug deep for you. Just in time to germinate your future. I…
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A Quiet House
by Sarah Mackey Kirby I decided when I grew up, I’d have a quiet house. Where snapping wind-tapped twigs and magnolia leaves traced open window. Where vitriol didn’t bleed through walls, and slammed back doorsdid not exist. Where only eager, barking dogs could break no-loud-noise code. Where tiptoed morning socks would press against old oak…
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