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Carpe Diem

Marc Woodward -

Road to Big Sur

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

michael visits his favorite webcam girl

Jennifer Wilder -
Poetry

Hospital (Self Isolation Sonnet)

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

Novelty

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Galileo Never Rode a Rickshaw

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Kim gets the red dress

Jennifer Wilder -
Poetry

A drawing of the one that got away

Anthony Hughes -
Poetry

10:08 a.m.

james stephen -
Poetry

Out of My Down-in-the-Dumps

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Regarding a Corpse

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Scylla and Charybdis

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

The Wood Conductor

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

Laneville poem

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Don’t You Worry, Jackie Boy

james stephen -
Poetry

The Finesse of Oneness

silent lotus -
Poetry

Questions I Would Ask Him

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Group Art

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Getting Help

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Beatles Fan from Buenos Aires

Mark Anthony Pearce -
Poetry

Meth(odical) Fog

Starr -
Poetry

The Day Squirrels Preach

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Poetry

Quacks

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Thutam Nguyen

Lawrence George -
Poetry

AA #2 – Unnamed: We’ll Call Him Mushroom

James Spears -
Poetry

needing a glass of water and following the curve of your...

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Galapagos tortoises

LA Brown -
Poetry

What’s Going On Twenty21

silent lotus -
Poetry

Mobs want to do my thinking for me

David Belcher -
Poetry

How to Prepare for a Coup in a Pandemic

Andy Posner -
Poetry

The Fallow Rotation

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

there was this

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Lockdown 2021

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

on the road to solitude

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

Unopened

Renee Elizabeth -
Poetry

ebbing

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

Quietus

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Safe Text

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

Resolving Reality

Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri -
Poetry

Waymarkers

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

Raphael

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Ethnic Cleanser

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

a tale of two poets and a boy from the Bronx

Emalisa Rose -
Poetry

My Father Dreams of Ships

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Do Not Resuscitate

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Umwelt

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

1/4 kg

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

Totalitarian Ornithology

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Pattern of Life

LA Brown -
Poetry

He Did It His Way

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Things I Received for Christmas

Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri -
Poetry

Widow

Mary McCarthy -
Poetry

These spectacles have seen ages

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

nothing personal, just my heart changing its mind

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

Ambition

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Life After Dodging a Bullet

Andy Posner -
Poetry

My Son, My Son

Susan Peters -
Poetry

A Team of Horses Gathers Me into Heaven

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

new poems and a red dress

Emalisa Rose -
Poetry

A SIMPLE PRAYER

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

The Petrifying Things

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Don’t Wear It Out

Chloe Zumbrun -
Poetry

MINOTAUR

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Come What May

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Someone puts out a light

David Belcher -
Poetry

Pilot Light

Starr -
Poetry

BEAR STREET

Mark Anthony Pearce -
Poetry

It’s All My Fault

Eliot Jacobson -
Poetry

Write A Poem To Yourself For Your Ninetieth Birthday

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Grove of Trees Under Which We Are Side by Side, Shape...

Chloe Zumbrun -
Poetry

Ars Poetica

Michele Harris -
Poetry

This is How it Ends

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

no lighthouse for the smog in my eyes

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

The Nation’s Face

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Melissa’s Bicycle

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Fire Moon Rising

Mark Grinyer -
Poetry

.salvation

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

Just Another Dream Waking

RC James -
Showcase

Elections Matter

OAF Artists & Writers -
Poetry

October Surprise

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Father

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

Misery Chic

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

This is me not exaggerating

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Childless

KIMBERLY McNeil -
Poetry

Pig Latin

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

My head is a guillotine

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

How to Survive an Apocalypse

Andy Posner -
Poetry

In the Port of Saint Petersburg

Alfie Shoyger -
Poetry

Changing Shapes of Rain

Miya Ko -
Poetry

In honour of pets

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Exhibition stand jewelry

Roger Fizzerton -
Poetry

September 19, 2020

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

Lazy Pencils

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

Kiss from God

Susan Peters -
Poetry

Witnessing

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

“WHERE are your tax returns, Mr. Trump?”

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Coupling

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

no vacancy

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

By the Maple

Miya Ko -
Poetry

How old do you think I am?

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Liberated Me

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Edwin

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Her Knickers

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

A Love Sonnet Written on the Occasion of the Death of...

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Rick

John Yamrus -
Poetry

Finish to Start

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Bedtime, Children!

Susan Peters -
Poetry

Lockdown

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Cyndi Lauper Turns 80

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Terns

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

The truck has a large red logo on its side

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

With Your Voice

Mark A. Murphy -
Poetry

Heartsongs—an anagram

Joan Colby -
Poetry

SHELTERING AT HOME

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Spying on My Beloved Ghosts

Susan Peters -
Poetry

POETIC NOISE

Douglas Goodwin -
Poetry

Livestreaming My Own Suicide

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

You came to me upon the weakness of a rose petal

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Days

Oliver Stansfield -
Poetry

Selections from “poems from the deck”

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Neon Neck

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

Seeing My Donated Dress on Sale at Goodwill

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

The band of St Carmen’s holy church Santa Cruz

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Ikebana

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Look up from the pavement, won’t you?

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

HUNG LIKE A HEBREW NATIONAL

Douglas Goodwin -
Poetry

the mike pence school of gay conversion therapy

Lawrence George -
Poetry

I want to hug

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Misanthropy In F U Minor

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

The fattest guy at the pool

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Popular Wireless Park

KIMBERLY McNeil -
Poetry

anticipating the dog

Delainie Littlejohn -
Poetry

slave songs—2020

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

200Kmph and Nineteen, Berlin

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

I am he shouted

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

ancient roadblocks

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Organ Recital at Saint-Eustache

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

WHAT I AM

Douglas Goodwin -
Poetry

Homo insatiens

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Flashback

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Ward 8

Starr -
Poetry

lilt in a breeze

Stella Read -
Poetry

Calendar on the wall throwing flowers

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Morning Staff Meeting at the VA

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Chimera

Bethany Lim -
Poetry

I Long to Join the Conga Line

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Benediction for a Baby Born in 2020

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

A Café Terrace Confession

silent lotus -
Poetry

Unspoken

Michael Acker -
Poetry

goddamn how i miss the late 70s

Lawrence George -
Poetry

..done some asemic stuff..

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

No Lines

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

It’s been so long, since when did hope breathe its way...

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

It still happens

Tom Strong -
Poetry

The Re-Appropriation of a Jewish Icon

Michael Acker -
Poetry

The Daughter May Be Let Off

Lyn Lifshin -
Poetry

If I were a god

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

at the doctor’s today,

John Yamrus -
Poetry

RUBY

John D Robinson -
Poetry

Concrete Poetry

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

Pomp and Circumstance

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

. i been drawing trees .

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

Charlie Ottoway

Milner Place -
Poetry

Why are you so sad?

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

Pulling Thread from a Red Paisley Pillow

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

Sometimes

Connie Carmichael -
Poetry

Silent Birds

Enas Suleiman -
Poetry

A FORTUNE IN HOLES

Douglas Goodwin -
Poetry

critical thinkers

Hanna Abi Akl -
Poetry

I HAD CALLED IN SICK

John D Robinson -
Poetry

Chain Book Store

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens -
Poetry

A Whiter House

Oliver Stansfield -
Showcase

along the stream that fell from clouds & other poems

Milner Place -
Poetry

Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty Girl

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Since then I’ve never said she died

Tom Strong -
Poetry

The Wind Blows Hard Against His White Fence

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

slave songs—2020

Tiko Lewis -
Showcase

Coming Out & Other Poems

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

Election Day: When My Blood Is on the Ballot

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Gone Home

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Frankenstein Unwritten

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

blackthren & brownthren

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

A Failed Attempt at Re-parenting

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Full Metal Bitch

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

a dog is a dog

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

REMY, LULU, AND THE BIG NOSE

Tom Strong -
Showcase

Covid Times

OAF Artists & Writers -
Poetry

I’m Sorry I Cannot Attend Your Party

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

On Doing Good in America

Andy Posner -
Poetry

The too real dream of guilt in one glance

Lyn Lifshin -
Showcase

Indian Summer

Irene Han -
Poetry

Eulogy of Fables

Miya Ko -
Poetry

the canvas of the covenant

silent lotus -
Poetry

Allegory for an Unreasonable Age

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Halo Light in Dark Sky

Renee Elizabeth -
Poetry

A petaled season

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

The lady you keep yapping with on the phone

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Lechmere Viaduct

Starr -
Poetry

The Humanist

David Belcher -
Poetry

Three Double Takes

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Bathroom Haiku

Niall M Oliver -
Readings

I felt so secure I even wanted the flies there

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Blow Job

Miya Ko -
Poetry

HIS T-SHIRT

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Killing conspicuous

Tom Strong -
Poetry

in pursuit of dead presidents

Obed Ladiny -
Poetry

Lies Told by a Metronome

Wim Coleman -
Readings

I hated Tamaqua

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

& as far from

silent lotus -
Poetry

spiegel im spiegel

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Gateleg Table

Joan Colby -
Poetry

Truce

Mélissa O'Flaherty -
Poetry

My doctor said to play with my cat as a coping...

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Call this

Roger Fizzerton -
Poetry

Pageantry

silent lotus -
Poetry

saying goodbye

Stella Read -
Poetry

if your death were a myth

Stella Read -
Poetry

vámonos a la playa

Lawrence George -
Poetry

The Minstrel Savior

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Toe Tappin’

Michael B. Carroll Jr. -
Poetry

Believe You Me

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Boxes

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Capitalism in Cambodia

Lawrence George -
Poetry

The red fantail is my favorite

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Is There Freedom in Forgetting or Being Forgotten?

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Setting Precedent

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Big Orange Sun

Trish Saunders -
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