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June 2020

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The Daughter May Be Let OffPoetry

The Daughter May Be Let Off

Lyn LifshinJune 29, 2020

but her hands will always seem like strangers, pale animals with a life of their own, loading, clicking. She brushes her colorless hair 200…

If I were a godPoetry

If I were a god

Mike CasettaJune 28, 2020

I would create mountains that can spit fire & cover them with tall green trees with myriad roots holding dearly the skin of soil…

at the doctor’s today,Poetry

at the doctor’s today,

June 27, 2020

one of the nurses wanted to meet me. she said she had all my books, which had to be a lie, but it was…

RUBYPoetry

RUBY

John D RobinsonJune 25, 2020

He lived with a pigeon, his entire apartment was covered in bird shit, he dealt good hash, but it was a horror, no surface…

Concrete PoetryPoetry

Concrete Poetry

Dale PattersonJune 23, 2020

Slow Into Lifeless No Mo The Question Implied Passage

. i been drawing trees .Art, Poetry

. i been drawing trees .

Sonja Benskin MesherJune 20, 2020

i borrowed your apron many years ago. i still have it and just remember you, your darkness. it was good news from the bad,…

Charlie OttowayPoetry, Readings

Charlie Ottoway

Milner PlaceJune 18, 2020

https://openartsforum.com/audio/milnerplace01.mp3   It was about ten to eleven when I went out into the street. The world was considerably empty except for some exceeding…

Why are you so sad?Poetry

Why are you so sad?

Kaci Skiles LawsJune 17, 2020

"Pick up your lip." Daddy said that night during a phone call. It was the day I got pulled out early from school after…

SometimesPoetry

Sometimes

Connie CarmichaelJune 15, 2020

Sometimes, if you are walking through a cemetery you might hear them calling after you. Their voices sound like rusty whistles and dry, crackling…