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What I should have told herPoetry

What I should have told her

Sara ClancyAugust 14, 2018

There is never betrayal in the space between boxcars where his face still tilts towards the old life he left. The new life has…

America AmericaPoetry

America America

Michael AshleyAugust 12, 2018

They glamourise war with their literature, support Mexico w/ the import of narcs, fry pretty much all their food, & negotiate hard. They let…

GajraFiction

Gajra

Jay GandhiAugust 11, 2018

Since 7 months Rita and I were living in the same apartment but merely as occupants sharing the same roof. Our 4-year marriage was…

Melon ManPoetry

Melon Man

Gerard SarnatAugust 9, 2018

—RIP Koko, The Gorilla Who Used Sign Language, 1972–20 June 2018* Sheep in wolf’s clothing, Melon Man’s what the Town and Country grocery with…

CoyotesPoetry

Coyotes

Steve KlepetarAugust 2, 2018

And then the sky opened. The world filled with blood. Cameras caught it all, buildings wrenched from their foundations, anger and sirens and stench.…

Good GermansPoetry

Good Germans

Jefferson CarterJuly 28, 2018

I keep saying I'm not going to another holocaust movie.  But then I do. The latest one set in Augsburg, 1958, when twenty-something Germans thought…

If I Could PaintPoetry

If I Could Paint

Michael RollainJuly 22, 2018

I don't like mango but I’m compelled to consume space, to savor the liquid, label all the rays upon my tongue, such sweet perspicacity.…

rather notPoetry, Writing

rather not

Tom RiordanJuly 21, 2018

low over june’s dusk grass the fireflies’ sparse steeps all float away in one direction in the gentlest of arcs then as my ramble…

PhoneticsPoetry, Uncategorized

Phonetics

Bethany LimJuly 20, 2018

I thought you said alphabetic, and picture plastic letters filled with magnets, colorful refrigerator doors. “Apologetic,” you argue.  “I was trying to apologize.”.I wonder if anger…

evenPoetry

even

July 15, 2018

before the hour sounds, we are already sitting with the dead.

No Solace for BastardsPoetry, Writing

No Solace for Bastards

Michael AshleyJuly 13, 2018

we dangle from a single thread​ pendulous from the bars ​ on the upswing to the hot plates​ ​ on the down ​ to…

The Last Time in the HospitalPoetry, Writing

The Last Time in the Hospital

Mary McCarthyJuly 12, 2018

I had nothing but tears warm as blood a hemorrhage of grief all that day and through the night. They took my nail file…