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Gateleg TablePoetry

Gateleg Table

Joan ColbyJanuary 23, 2020

Walnut with turned legs That unfold in a triptych For dining or card play. Carried in an ox-cart from Minnesota To a Dakota homestead.…

My doctor said to play with my cat as a coping mechanism to prevent my suicidePoetry

My doctor said to play with my cat as a coping mechanism to prevent my suicide

Daniel J. Flore IIIJanuary 18, 2020

My doctor said to play with my cat as a coping mechanism to prevent my suicide but neither one of us feels like playing…

Call thisPoetry

Call this

Roger FizzertonJanuary 17, 2020

I guess you saw it coming I guess you'd marked the edge well as we walked the path failure is its own reward I…

PageantryPoetry

Pageantry

silent lotusJanuary 16, 2020

saying goodbyePoetry

saying goodbye

Stella ReadJanuary 14, 2020

reading Leonard Cohen by candlelight, visualising bonfire night, your birthday were you still alive under that streetlamp, we could walk together to your bench…

if your death were a mythPoetry

if your death were a myth

Stella ReadJanuary 13, 2020

it could be fashioned of iridescent plumage, gilt and crimson, a phoenix in transition, transformed, unbeaten  

vámonos a la playaPoetry

vámonos a la playa

Lawrence GeorgeJanuary 12, 2020

is this thing that we say in this Mar Vista restaurant that i open and close open and close open every night it means,…

The Minstrel SaviorPoetry

The Minstrel Savior

Wim ColemanJanuary 10, 2020

If I remember right, Jesus arrived at the trailer where we lived in Glenville during the summer when Papaw Henry poured gasoline all around…

Toe Tappin’Poetry

Toe Tappin’

Michael B. Carroll Jr.January 9, 2020

Heel-to-toe, he taps to the harmonics of reverberating bounces and swish-swooshing tempos, and to the serenades of sirens outside his window. He dances the Dig…

PathetiqueFiction

Pathetique

Mir-Yashar SeyedbagheriJanuary 8, 2020

Mother plays piano. It’s a dark night. She plays all the saddest pieces. Tchaikovsky seems to break her piano apart with fervency. Debussy’s sad,…

Believe You MePoetry

Believe You Me

Mike CasettaJanuary 8, 2020

It’s true, what you said, if I don’t love myself I can’t really love you. I kissed my reflection on the lips last night…

BoxesPoetry

Boxes

Rob BreedingJanuary 7, 2020

I. My father would’ve laughed his ass off at how overly concerned I am about treating his ashes like a delicate antique; he’d say…