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SaraPoetry

Sara

Mike CasettaJune 19, 2022

Sara’s real father, while drunk on wine & ebony thighs, jumped ship in the Mediterranean during the winter of ’54 & started a second…

Hips like there’s no water nearPoetry

Hips like there’s no water near

Nathalie SpaansJune 8, 2022

In class I sat with a Loreley with goldenes hair. At five she told K.: "Our sandbox is full of witches' teeth." K. talks…

MY MOM’S BOYFRIENDSPoetry

MY MOM’S BOYFRIENDS

Daniel J. Flore IIIJune 5, 2022

one had stringy long hair he drove with bare feet and once came over to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory he laid on…

Don’t Wake DaddyPoetry

Don’t Wake Daddy

Mélissa GustafsonJune 4, 2022

tip toe tread bone crunch chime eggshell dread all the time

I think of you, I shakePoetry

I think of you, I shake

Nathalie SpaansJune 1, 2022

Listen I don't care if you're unreliable and obsessed the bad has to go somewhere I've dodgy perspective and since I virtue rescued again…

For the Next 19 ChildrenPoetry

For the Next 19 Children

Jordan TretheweyMay 29, 2022

I don’t want to be numb. Crying, screaming, pleading- for-their-barely-begun-lives little kids bleeding out, shot to death in supposed safe places where they go…

When We Were PoetsPoetry

When We Were Poets

Sherry CassellsMay 28, 2022

Last time you arrived at the airport I came drunk to pick you up fringed jacket ripped jeans    biker boots some beat this time please…

10 TIPS FOR WRITING POETRYContributor Blogs, Poetry

10 TIPS FOR WRITING POETRY

Daniel J. Flore IIIMay 21, 2022

* Be an asshole (they're interesting). * Spill a drink on the page. * Eat shit for breakfast. Write about it by dinner. *…

his nails trimmed shortPoetry

his nails trimmed short

Jennifer WilderMay 18, 2022

he said no fisting friday gotta keep that pussy in top shape— long weekend ahead baby girl middle of the night again at dawn…

If you let me I’ll change my room into woodsPoetry

If you let me I’ll change my room into woods

Nathalie SpaansMay 15, 2022

He helps me to pronounce Anne Hedge and calls me kid—that old Casablanca dream. He has a lot of women who love him: his…

DesiderataPoetry

Desiderata

Mark A. MurphyMay 12, 2022

All night while the rain fell you turned the words over in silence The wet grass did not know your brother was asleep across…

he readPoetry

he read

May 5, 2022

his poems from his phone, standing there, hunched over the microphone, needy, expectant... the crowd, such as it was, not even listening, bent over…