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The Empress
by Caitlin Copland Galaxies are breaking from your skin, love.Purple clad mystics, climbing stairwell veins,to breathe the tides of your good graces.Resting behind midnight blue arcanayou sit,Venus,crowned in sanguine stardustpouring seeded life over this half moon diadem.You are all things I am not.Holding this pomegranate worldwith open generosity,calling all those in need to drink.How could…
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Two Poems
by Elancharan Gunasekaran At The DoorShe’s there each night,as I alight from the taxi.My Wife — the cockroachis at the same spot.Waiting for me,inviting me tocrush herbut…I can’t. DilemmaI can’t tell,who’s the pest.Is it us orthem?I bet it’s us,no them, no us,ask them, fuck them. Elancharan Gunasekaran Elancharan is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. He has a…
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Two Poems
by Toi Sibley My Poems Are My SongsMy songs are my poemsbut I can’t sing their hooksI never had the abilityit wasn’t taken by a crookanchored in gravitationbelieving my limitationsmy poems have been wrongeddeprived of becoming my songs. My Lover’s ArmsMy lovers arms are like an ocean when it is quiet and stillcreeping up onto the…