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The Cleaver daysPoetry

The Cleaver days

Ken TomaroNovember 5, 2022

life in suburbia, where the dogs sniff the grass and sniff again and the men of the households on their riding mowers shave perfectly…

Certificate of achievementPoetry

Certificate of achievement

Ken TomaroNovember 4, 2022

there is a dusty old box in the back of my mind crumpled and damaged from all the things piled on top of it…

AutumnPoetry

Autumn

Nathalie SpaansNovember 4, 2022

Stop the push. Go and look. Outside flapper girls flaunt their street gold. They know nothing of decay of hanging on, see J. this…

.rose.Art, Poetry

.rose.

Sonja Benskin MesherNovember 4, 2022

yet when she said my friend looked pretty & that I smelled nice I sagged a little. later that day i found a message…

There is No ProofPoetry

There is No Proof

Mike CasettaNovember 4, 2022

There is no proof that William Carlos Williams time traveled back to 399 BC to ease Socrates’ painful death from hemlock but when amateur…

72 Heartbeats Per MinutePoetry

72 Heartbeats Per Minute

Dale PattersonNovember 2, 2022

Her 1st thought on arrival was she wouldn’t be staying. Now on the 4th day of her 3rd month she is comfortable putting her…

.idea.Art, Poetry

.idea.

Sonja Benskin MesherNovember 2, 2022

while out on a longer walk, met him and he explained to me, about walking there and back again

My Soul In The MirrorPoetry

My Soul In The Mirror

HughLemmaNovember 2, 2022

I removed my towel and wiped away the fog to check the progress of lines on my newly shaven face, but things turned metaphysical…

River AngelPoetry

River Angel

Dale PattersonNovember 2, 2022

She is thick-bodied and heavy-boned a fleshy peach-of-a-gal whose tugboat frame nudges and pushes until things move in a positive direction. So no big…

Halloween 2022Poetry

Halloween 2022

Raymond HuffmanNovember 2, 2022

Halloween was a non-event maybe it was because I closed the blinds and turned off the porch light I didn’t have any candy being…

.hue.Art, Poetry

.hue.

Sonja Benskin MesherOctober 31, 2022

duck egg blue the ironmongers in town at three seventy-nine we can walk there and back or there and bus back you see

AuditoryPoetry

Auditory

Bethany LimOctober 31, 2022

Sometimes the cat is just an avocado branch scratching against the side wall in an early evening breeze.