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Artificial IntelligencePoetry

Artificial Intelligence

Morgan DriscollJuly 11, 2019

The last time at the office of the otolaryngologist I had smartly typed my next appointment promptly on my smart phone screen at the…

MeaningPoetry

Meaning

Michael AckerJune 30, 2019

Is it found in the thickets that line the paths through our minds, or in the simple words that form so easily out of…

How to win an argument: lesson #17, DadPoetry

How to win an argument: lesson #17, Dad

Eliot JacobsonJune 27, 2019

it's an obscure ornithological fact the lifespan of a common hummingbird is 20 to 25 years and i know hummingbirds i feed them equal…

Another Friday Night IIPoetry

Another Friday Night II

Cheryl LeveretteJune 21, 2019

Rita calls. She's coming over for a girl's night-in because she likes the name of the wine— Yellow Tail. She says, I like tail,…

peep show politicsPoetry

peep show politics

tiko lewisJune 20, 2019

don't look now we be at the bottom of the hole with the butterflies and pony shit they taught us to shoo gnats when…

Everybody Swims/Lino CutArt, Poetry

Everybody Swims/Lino Cut

george roesch johnsonJune 20, 2019

She is so new, I am not sure which swimmer is her. With caps and goggles and sleek bodies, I am surrounded by porpoise…

The GardenerPoetry

The Gardener

Ann KammererJune 19, 2019

He had tended the garden pruning stems and branches with long-handled shears melded to his hands. He returned that winter, cradling a plant in…

ShuttersPoetry

Shutters

Martin SlavinJune 19, 2019

Being the hybrids that we are, neither fully prey nor fully predator, we make our rounds each night, closing windows and locking doors. We are…

no remindersPoetry

no reminders

Cheryl LeveretteJune 16, 2019

the clench in my brain is like imagination on speed ghosts fly behind my back my mom's sweet white hair the door ajar her…

Life SuppliesPoetry

Life Supplies

Lance JencksJune 15, 2019

—for Cheryl Leverette Life gets lost in the top right drawer of my desk. Those three pairs of scissors once purchased? Stuffed there way…

AgelessPoetry

Ageless

Amanda VillafrancoJune 12, 2019

in my eyes, we’re ageless in my eyes, each exploding star dust Pangeal atom that conspired in our conception has always existed we have…