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Out of My Down-in-the-DumpsPoetry

Out of My Down-in-the-Dumps

Mike CasettaFebruary 17, 2021

Today is more than just one cup of black coffee after another. Today, I have enough melancholy stacked on top of more melancholy to…

Regarding a CorpsePoetry

Regarding a Corpse

Andy PosnerFebruary 16, 2021

Regarding a corpse at the bottom of a ravine, I wonder if it’s mine. I wonder if as it tumbled, sinews tearing like tissue…

Scylla and Charybdis
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Scylla and Charybdis

Maria MazzengaFebruary 15, 2021

feather-sized flakes spin then faint on the grass we look at the sky, wondering eggshell facts melt on our faces life isn’t quite irresistible…

The Wood ConductorPoetry, Readings, Video

The Wood Conductor

Marc WoodwardFebruary 14, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TT6R5OryGU There was no sign of a woodcutter in the tin shack raised from the red earth, the black wood of an archived forest.…

Laneville poemPoetry

Laneville poem

Daniel J. Flore IIIFebruary 12, 2021

Laneville-muted sunlight, good sex, bipolar, playing Jay-Z in the morning pissing off the people below me. Laneville-crappy bars and not in a good way,…

Don’t You Worry, Jackie BoyPoetry

Don’t You Worry, Jackie Boy

james stephenFebruary 11, 2021

this game's going down in history randomly craved poetry is best take the enamel right off your teeth I saw a great grandmother reading…

Questions I Would Ask HimPoetry

Questions I Would Ask Him

Sara ClancyFebruary 9, 2021

Before you lost what was left of your mind, did you have any idea that the scales of betrayal you kept even with your…

Group ArtPoetry

Group Art

Miya KoFebruary 7, 2021

Perhaps you miss folding the May blossoms, sakura, creeping phlox, chrysanthemums; maybe your fingers are itching to fold cicadas, damselflies, moths you can hold;…

Getting HelpPoetry

Getting Help

Tom StrongFebruary 6, 2021

I try to keep an appearance of a well-manicured lawn but my moles keep showing up hungry, silently heaving sod. And I gotta lot…

Beatles Fan from Buenos AiresPoetry

Beatles Fan from Buenos Aires

Mark Anthony PearceFebruary 1, 2021

Wishing my penis could detach itself and crawl off somewhere far away from me She insists she understands how I feel especially the moments…

The Day Squirrels PreachPoetry

The Day Squirrels Preach

Soodabeh SaeidniaJanuary 28, 2021

some days, a squirrel jumps up from the oak's branches above the grandma's balcony and tells us how to pour our grief in a…