Category: poetry
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The Storm
by Melissa Chappell Upon his bed of white linen, he laid me down. I was beneath him when the sun looked upon us with its jealous eye through the polished window panes. His hands were praising me, when the stratus clouds stretched over the sun’s burnished light, denying it glory. My mouth was seeking the…
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Sea of Dreams
by RC deWinter i live for night impatient for its swallowing the unlovely glare of day that endless maze of corners round which nothing waits but contours of routine the shuttering of eyes (my escape clause from the pitiless directives of the day) and then the slide into the sea of dreams where guiltless blameless…
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Complications From an Almost Unfulfilled Life
by Jose Oseguera Recalling years and things that happened in them is like walking into a room and forgetting what you came in for, as when Mom started digging her long, self-manicured fingernails into my hand, dragging me to the dentist’s office. The holes bored by plaque acids from eating Frosted Flakes for breakfast, lunch…
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Figueroa Street
by Jose Oseguera Its long, serpentine body always filthy in a compost of candy wrappers, flattened chip bags, and stained soda bottle shards— divine translucence of a Parisian rose window; their glass rattles beside me like excited children, hopping over syringes, charred stainless steel spoons, ripped surgical gloves, and dried streams of urine— the pigeons…
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Jaw Sores
by Ann Yang my jaw is swollen from holding back all the secrets clenched between my teeth & Ann Yang Ann Yang is a writer and poet based in the Bay Area. She has been published in the 2017 Inklings Anthropology and her work is forthcoming in the Summer Edition of Poetic Power 2019. Writing…
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Suicide Squirrel
by Shawn Anto & I was driving down CSUB Way minding my own business Can I ask you something? really ask you. Can you be honest with me? really honest a squirrel…
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Two Poems by Yaun Changming
Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include Pushcart nominations, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry and BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.
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Liquid Knowledge
by Sam Smiley Rosy cheeks and bubbly thoughtsfloating up to the heavens and out of our headsbefore we can elaborate.Our tongues are tied in knots;I giggle when your words escape you.Parched lips wake at fourlonging to be quenchedhazy brainhazy eyeshazy headI sway like there is music playingthat only I can hear.I am here and hot…
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Mt. Woodson Trail by Shawn Anto
for Mel & Barbara I unburden for a second. hear faint whispering my shame: did you transgress, son? transparency, let your eyes communicate empathy, a sea. we don’t keep secrets. we take our mind out into precipice. see—manzanita and poison oak scattered along this ridge dominating the undergrowth and break within these unclimbed boulders and…
Dream Noir 