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PoetryAhmed’s Sparrow
Tiny winged corpse, trapped inside the aluminum frame of a storm window; Ahmed freed the frozen, fragile body with his pen in hopes that…
PoetryMaria
I chase a cat who scampers across the beach. Her gait's mysterious; assured yet zigzag and every few moments she stops to tease. I…
PoetryAssassination of a Critic
"Rhymes in poems are dead," he said. I laughed and shouldered the bazooka, shook a Vicodin from the bottle and chased it with gin.…
PoetryLess Tomorrow
Fell asleep inside him after wind slipped through a window, found a crack into my absent mind. Tomorrow lurks around our edges, minutes fall…
PoetryMost times though we’d sit
Most times though we’d sit with trays on our knees the microwave cartons full of steaming food too hot to touch at the edges…
PoetryDaffodil Spikes and Tulip Skewers
We carefully handle our sub-zero Winter secrets. But like last year, they begin to dissipate from consciousness until, like barren tree limbs, we forget…
PoetryUnit 6
A couple of Bath Salts addicts moved in upstairs. Each night, the entire building can hear 'em eating each other's faces.
PoetryThe astronaut
The astronaut the man in the threadbare tweed says he’s laying low right now, coasting through, baby, paying off a few invisible debts to…
PoetryScooter
held between his ankles, very bright orange t-shirt, plaid shorts I glance at him from the till. Don't know which suits me. I ask…
PoetryTheir thoughts move out of their bodies
A man lays his hand on a woman. He sees through her eyes the golden-breasted songbird. The woman looks on the man and she…
PoetryKarin Dreijer Andersson
we hung around Gothenburg for five months or so renting out an expensive apartment on Vingalandsgatan with a fabulous panoramic view over the Gothia…
Art, PoetryThe Arena of Aesthetic Elaboration
i never write to be read, i've always said. it was never a considered decision to hide my notebooks and scribbles from you unless…