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Blood RainPoetry

Blood Rain

Marc WoodwardOctober 23, 2022

"Today 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070 that portion could go up to 19%. Billions of people call these…

Something Keeps Cutting the Spider’s WebPoetry

Something Keeps Cutting the Spider’s Web

Raymond HuffmanOctober 21, 2022

Old tree is barking at the moon Squirrel is telling a tail of balance Fence is fighting off the neighbors Streetlights are glowering at…

To the Dapple Gray Mare Who Almost Killed MePoetry

To the Dapple Gray Mare Who Almost Killed Me

Sara ClancyOctober 21, 2022

I loved you, you know. Never mind that I was nine years old and couldn't get on by myself. Never mind the velvet hat…

MeditationPoetry

Meditation

Mike CasettaOctober 21, 2022

At the funeral I do not want to be the one in the coffin. I will surround myself with flowers, go to a meadow…

AmgenPoetry

Amgen

Lawrence GeorgeOctober 19, 2022

if you take the 101 west, out past canoga park round the bend past the sign Pepperdine you can literally smell the $$$ the…

HostessPoetry

Hostess

Ann KammererOctober 19, 2022

Mom asked if I could bring her a few things. I said maybe. “I just want some Hostess fruit pies,” she said. “Apple. And…

La RochellePoetry

La Rochelle

Jenn ZedOctober 19, 2022

Fragile morning motivationPoetry

Fragile morning motivation

Jay GandhiOctober 17, 2022

It’s quite comforting to know that I wake up on 100% of the days that I’m alive and odds of fighting for yet another…

AbscissionPoetry

Abscission

Tom StrongOctober 17, 2022

Monochrome greens recede like the shorter day into a longer night for a pageant of pigments on a runway sashay down a fall fashion…

open tuningPoetry

open tuning

Sara ClancyOctober 17, 2022

slide down rosewood creaks behind the song solo mandolin

Bottom feeding at the gas station slotsPoetry

Bottom feeding at the gas station slots

Daniel J. Flore IIIOctober 14, 2022

the slot allows you to see the next roll for free sometimes that next roll is a winner but you gotta sit there like…

4:43 a.m.Poetry

4:43 a.m.

james stephenOctober 14, 2022

sorting over the bones that had meaning when flesh was on them flesh is long gone now meaning remains