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knick knackPoetry

knick knack

Sara ClancyDecember 15, 2023

I have molded this Maine morning into a smooth glass swallow for your sill, to shore up the sharp clean cerulean & remind you…

fluid encryptionsPoetry

fluid encryptions

Jan HarperDecember 14, 2023

he sits at his desk writing poems in his head stares out at the clouds attempts to decode Nature's own writ in dripping cyphers…

Memoriam in light rainPoetry

Memoriam in light rain

Daniel J. Flore IIIDecember 13, 2023

it’s August and nobody’s listening but you I had to leave it’s like some hyperactive child is coloring in the nights with black crayons…

Seeing the lightPoetry

Seeing the light

Sherry CassellsDecember 12, 2023

I said do not simplify I fucking understand my opinion differs from yours but I fucking get it I do not require repetition, new…

Golden SilencePoetry

Golden Silence

D. E. KernDecember 11, 2023

From this angle, a day’s last rays make embers of cattails bent in supplication to an unrepentant wind trying to force the Colorado into…

free-range poetsPoetry

free-range poets

Jan HarperDecember 10, 2023

roam the yards flock to the sound of an opening door hoping for scraps tossed our way tasty, random, diverse cluck and quibble scrabble…

HOW TO TELL A COMPLETE STRANGER YOU WANT TO KILL YOURSELFPoetry

HOW TO TELL A COMPLETE STRANGER YOU WANT TO KILL YOURSELF

Daniel J. Flore IIIDecember 8, 2023

purple roses and blood red candy a passerby who knows the secret you withhold from everyone else they keep the confession in their haunted…

Eulogy To A Mom From A SonPoetry

Eulogy To A Mom From A Son

Tom StrongDecember 6, 2023

When a mountain is dismantled from eons of wind and rain, how can I say it’s gone? When it has fondly spread itself across…

After her best friend’s hubby’s funeralPoetry

After her best friend’s hubby’s funeral

Paul BrookesDecember 4, 2023

or divorce or some means by which the poor lass is on her own, My lass, without fail, will ask me: What are you…

I might not be here longPoetry

I might not be here long

Daniel J. Flore IIIDecember 3, 2023

I’ll die. I’ll go brain dead. I mean, I’ll be here but in some straw wrapper exiting through the skull and brain matter. What’s…

StumpPoetry

Stump

Ann KammererDecember 1, 2023

Sun sliced through the window warming my face, my skin tinted pink by skinny morning clouds. Mom was sleeping. Harry was up. His footsteps…