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America legalizes murder

Lance Watson -
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At Least Yours Had a Song, Buk

Sharon Leigh -
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Three more humble attempts at bussokusekika.

Jason Ryberg -
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There goes Brian they say

Michael Ashley -
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Redwing

Paul Brookes -
A statue of a man holding a plant in his hands
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The intimacy of others

Nathalie Spaans -
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Status Quo Ante

Andy Posner -
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Insects in the cupboards

Susan Peters -
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ONE HELLUVA CHRISTMAS

Daniel J. Flore III -
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merry fucking christmas

Lance Watson -
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Shooting Rats with Buddha

Marc Woodward -
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Bravery

Andy Posner -
a statue of a woman sitting in the snow
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What Do You Call This?

james stephen -
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The Ancients

Matt Dennison -
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The Architect of Ash

Dr Padmashree RP -
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CULTURE YOU BASTARD

Daniel J. Flore III -
silhouette of woman standing on beach during sunset
Poetry

The End of the World

Mary MacGowan -
Poetry

A Fall Night

Hugh Lemma -
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autumn in the rain

ennuibrion -
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The brine

Michael Ashley -
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Evening Drives To Andromeda

Bob Bradshaw -
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my chesapeake

Rob Breeding -
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First Light

D. E. Kern -
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MONSTERS

Obed Ladiny -
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Hosanna

Ann Kammerer -
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Toad Flax Leaf Beetle: The Life

Paul Brookes -
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I suppose resilience

Obed Ladiny -
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Indelible (Thanksgiving)

Julie Desmond -
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St. Mercy General

Grady VanWright -
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Green tea

Christine Dubuc -
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NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Daniel J. Flore III -
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Reciprocal

Matt Dennison -
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Hear The

Paul Brookes -
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Sunrise Serenade

Grady VanWright -
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Hurry!

Bob Bradshaw -
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Sestina for a Wider Music

Marc Woodward -
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A NEW DAY

Obed Ladiny -
Poetry

Portrait of Old Man in Camo Hat and Bermuda Shorts

Jason Ryberg -
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Exile (To the Homeland)

Mohamed Gaki -
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dinner with friends

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Blissed-out by exhaustion

David Belcher -
Poetry

His name means ‘far-seeing’

David Belcher -
Poetry

5786

Dale M. Tushman -
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Listening to Foliage, 72. Mirabilis

Tom Riordan -
gray stones on body of water
Poetry

Unmoored

Grady VanWright -
brass quilt pen
Poetry

Precision Lost

Raymond Huffman -
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Apology

Andy Posner -
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Chandelier Spider

Paul Brookes -
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My Mother’s Ghost Is Tired

heidi selig -
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apologies to the cat

Lance Watson -
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Every Daily Mass

Tom Strong -
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home is a flower farm

Rob Breeding -
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Spoilage (to burn or rot, that is the question)

Lorraine Stofft -
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Through Time

Andy Posner -
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I’m awake. Are you awake?

Sherry Cassells -
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The Indolent Magician

Matt Dennison -
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statistical error

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Alone

Dale M. Tushman -
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Disorder

Mike Casetta -
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Half Ginkgo

Matt Dennison -
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Not to Love

james stephen -
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Train

james stephen -
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What can anyone do to me here?

David Belcher -
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The Language Of Rain

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Art class

Dr Padmashree RP -
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A Slightly More Manageable State

Jason Ryberg -
Poetry

Five Anxious Haiku

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

What the Hill Remembers

Dr Padmashree RP -
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To My Replacements

Elizabeth Dunn -
Poetry

A Dream of Nether Stowey

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

She is in the jungle. She cannot see the sky.

Nathalie Spaans -
Poetry

My country

David Belcher -
Poetry

Your Mouth

james stephen -
Poetry

Speaks Louder Than

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Dilettante

Randi Cramer -
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Pool Hall

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

WHEN THE BOMBS DROP

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

“best corn in the county!”

Jan Harper -
Poetry

A Memory of the Boy

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

Marigolds

Hugh Lemma -
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Bagpipes In The Park

Tom Strong -
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Ode to the Forgotten Hour

Mohit Saini -
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Eulogy For a Fish

John Gurney -
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good guys

Lance Watson -
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Last Call

Dale M. Tushman -
Poetry

smoke rings

Larry Houston -
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unhallowed ground

Rob Breeding -
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Not ‘Digging’ (the only poem Heaney’s father ever wrote)

Niall M Oliver -
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Hush

Hugh Lemma -
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Broken Lock

Rich Glinnen -
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An unenlightened response to a bully

David Belcher -
Poetry

i found god behind a gas station dumpster and he owes...

Lance Watson -
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More Than She Should

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

The Ashes

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Green

heidi selig -
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Eh!

Michael Acker -
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Grief

Hugh Lemma -
silhouette photography of Stone Hinge during golden hour
Poetry

If I Lived In England

Mike Casetta -
a purple and black photo of a person in the dark
Poetry

spectral cannibalization

Ron Sardino -
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I Almost Lied

Grady VanWright -
man walking on dried plain while looking towards the sun on horizon
Poetry

“I Once Was Lost…”

RC James -
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TBone

heidi selig -
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Tonight This Night

Matt Dennison -
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she believed she could, so she did

Dale M. Tushman -
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Death Is

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

The weight of quiet things

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Avon, NC

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Twilight Cinema

D. E. Kern -
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Woodswoman

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Il Faut Imaginer Sisyphe Heureux

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

Instead of doomscrolling

Sara Clancy -
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Ars Poetica #1

Hugh Lemma -
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Seen from a ship

Marc Woodward -
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You can fly

Christine Dubuc -
Poetry

Ode to a Worn Rug

Bob Bradshaw -
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Quintains of the Red Death

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Drift the Corners

D. E. Kern -
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Mad auntie Pauline was right

Niall M Oliver -
Poetry

Wheelbarrow

james stephen -
Poetry

Confinement Upgrade

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

The Hush, the Hush, the Knowing Hush

Grady VanWright -
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To Not Be That Guy

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Townies

Acklum Harwood -
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New Dishes

Ann Kammerer -
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I’M GOING THROUGH A CAR REPAIR WHETHER I LIKE IT OR...

Daniel J. Flore III -
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The Gilded Moth and the Iron Maw

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

Not Unlike…

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Hope

Bethany Lim -
Poetry

Earthquake

Andy Posner -
Poetry

The Carrot of Believing

Tom Riordan -
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What If We Did Everything Right?

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

riding the front

Jennifer Wilder -
Poetry

Wedding Tree

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

un-christmassed

Jan Harper -
Poetry

Attitude In Blue — for Carlene

Doug Flaherty -
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0% Containment

Grady VanWright -
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Origin Stories

Jason Ryberg -
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Precious Cargo

Rich Glinnen -
Poetry

The world as I know it ends

Nathalie Spaans -
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To Dart Along

Paul Brookes -
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Calling All Editors

Niall M Oliver -
Poetry

A Blood Moon

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

Visions of a Teacher Come to Mind

RC James -
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Night Watch

Cameron McClure -
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transition home

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

A Stone A Flame

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

Moonshine

Tom Strong -
Poetry

A Patch Of Old Snow

Hugh Lemma -
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While Waiting To Be Inspired

Mike Casetta -
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What Is This Graveyard

Bob Bradshaw -
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The Moon So Close

Trish Saunders -
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Earthly Remains

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Cancer is a window into death

heidi selig -
clear glass cup with tea near brown ceramic teapot
Poetry

WATCHING PORN ON AN UNFORTUNATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Leeza Simmons Sikes -
a close up of a metal object with numbers on it
Poetry

Forget Your Password ?

james stephen -
Poetry

I Broke Up With The World

Hugh Lemma -
red cherry tomatoes
Poetry

TOMATO SOUP WAITING ON THE STOVE

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Decades Lapping at My Feet

james stephen -
Poetry

Seeking Submissions

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Accidents All the Time

Mary MacGowan -
brown and green grass
Poetry

Desert Wonder

Julie Desmond -
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Mountain Hymn

Skyler Kimock -
Poetry

Pilot Knob Breakfast

Lorraine Stofft -
Poetry

The Music of Another Place

D. E. Kern -
Poetry

Maybe You Remember

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

A Winter Morning

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

What do you mean by a blue horse

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

School’s Out

Robert Stastny -
Poetry

Now that you’re no more

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

Improvements

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

thanksgiving, next year

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

POST HOLIDAYS POSTCARD

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Andrew is leaving to pursue other opportunities

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Mourned town

David Belcher -
Poetry

Return

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

Lab Notes

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

On Faking My Death

Mike Casetta -
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An Old Penny

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Scarcity

Dale M. Tushman -
Poetry

autumn

Larry Houston -
snow-covered tree lot during daytime
Poetry

Cabin Fever

Mike Casetta -
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The Horologist

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

The Dog of My Life

Sherry Cassells -
Poetry

List Poem

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

To Be or Not To Be, Update

Dale M. Tushman -
Poetry

This is

Cameron McClure -
a person writing on a piece of paper with a pen
Poetry

One Less Poem

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Poetry

A Comedy of Marching Graves

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

“El sueño de la razón produce monstruos”

Wim Coleman -
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Nobility

silent lotus -
Poetry

Foster

Kaci Skiles Laws -
topless man wearing blue and black fitted cap
Poetry

You hurt plenty

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Friend, if I would do you right

Nathalie Spaans -
person in black jacket and blue pants walking on snow covered ground during daytime
Poetry

last of days

Rob Breeding -
a white bird flying over a body of water
Poetry

‘wings

silent lotus -
Poetry

LAKE DAYDREAMS

Daniel J. Flore III -
skeleton statue near tree
Poetry

death

Lawrence George -
Poetry

First Song

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

The United Nations of Oz

Dale M. Tushman -
Poetry

picture window

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Laying That Christmas Wreath

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

IT’S CHRISTMAS AND I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE BALLS...

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

You Better Not Pout

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

Delirium Dream #1: Choral Song

Ann Kammerer -
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Ars Poetica

Andy Posner -
Poetry

For the Road

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

The Purpose of Floors

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

9:28 AM

james stephen -
Poetry

CHESTNUT

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

The Poem I Didn’t Want To Write

Grady VanWright -
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In Short

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Daintiness

Michael Acker -
Poetry

All the dying birds

Nathalie Spaans -
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Book of the Dead

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

The Hidden Beatitudes

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

No Machine

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Anyway

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

It is October in Maine

John Gurney -
Poetry

“what the hell happened in TX now?”

Jennifer Wilder -
Poetry

On a Dance, or a Whim

Mary MacGowan -
Poetry

The Hotel Galvez

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

BARRED

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

10:11 AM

james stephen -
Poetry

way out west

Lawrence George -
Poetry

matteo

Rob Breeding -
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