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It’s A Good Thing You Are Not HerePoetry

It’s A Good Thing You Are Not Here

Mike CasettaJanuary 8, 2023

because my dog is odd. At first, I thought he was probably autistic or maybe broken by abuse from a previous owner & then…

MigrationPoetry

Migration

Dale PattersonJanuary 6, 2023

Each day I grow colder. The sun calls my name but I have no will to answer. The people on my street crane their…

Being human is ridiculousPoetry

Being human is ridiculous

Jordan TretheweyJanuary 5, 2023

I’d rather be a large cat— leopard or jaguar. No arguments with a spouse. Marriage isn’t a thing. Kill when pissed-off. Eat the offender.…

Statement PiecePoetry

Statement Piece

Sherry CassellsJanuary 4, 2023

I wear my mother’s pendant some days Not my style, really, gemstones bunched into a bouquet dainty I prefer heavy or nothing at all…

InstinctPoetry

Instinct

Sara ClancyJanuary 3, 2023

The hammock is hung between aspen and oak which means one day logic will flutter its pretty fingers and fall on its head. Our…

New Year’s Eve Countdown… and I Can’t Wait!Poetry

New Year’s Eve Countdown… and I Can’t Wait!

Obed LadinyJanuary 2, 2023

January 1, 2022: fly like a buffly, sting like a bee! December 31: dropped on the bed like a wacked fly, stung by reality of…

He says I’m too goodPoetry

He says I’m too good

Kaci Skiles LawsJanuary 1, 2023

for this world. I say, “I’m not, but I try to be.”

A waltz through the corn fieldsPoetry

A waltz through the corn fields

Ken TomaroDecember 31, 2022

I sat in our small kitchen, one warm summer morning waiting for the call the rest of the family went out of town for…

Woe Is MePoetry

Woe Is Me

Tom StrongDecember 30, 2022

I have nothing to complain about but I still do. I’m working on getting better about that but it ain’t easy when raised living…

After the VisitPoetry

After the Visit

Sara ClancyDecember 29, 2022

Go back to that place where just below the view of Holmes Bay, with its seal's back island, its lobster pots and birds, there…

Divine SequencePoetry

Divine Sequence

Miya KoDecember 28, 2022

I am the one who has been abandoned by God in this bedroom, the window shut.

That Cemetery ColdPoetry

That Cemetery Cold

Paul BrookesDecember 27, 2022

adds an extra jumper, adds early to bed, early to rise so no light lost. Candlemaker winter small heat on raw palms. Careful flame…