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the ringmaster never takes off his hatPoetry

the ringmaster never takes off his hat

Jan HarperOctober 18, 2023

too busy directing the marches he'll watch you fall smile as the nets fail the audience gasp and all that's left when the clowns…

.settings.Art, Poetry

.settings.

Sonja Benskin MesherOctober 17, 2023

you mean it was the settings that were wrong yes. so, it was all your imagination? yes.

Death Did Us PartPoetry

Death Did Us Part

james stephenOctober 16, 2023

I toss my hat onto the empty chair next to me

Leda was a dancer.Poetry

Leda was a dancer.

John YamrusOctober 15, 2023

i think it was 1969 and we were sitting on the floor in the front room of her house, playing records on the stereo.…

you aren’t meant for regular peoplePoetry

you aren’t meant for regular people

Lawrence GeorgeOctober 14, 2023

if you're reading this, you've already felt it: a tingle an itch, an ache you exist in a kind of hollow agony orbit: the…

Every night it’s GothamPoetry

Every night it’s Gotham

Jan HarperOctober 13, 2023

When the city's in trouble beware the brooding hero whose beacon burns inside his chest to throw designs on nightly skies to dazzle unprotected…

Known by Many NamesPoetry

Known by Many Names

Julie A. DicksonOctober 12, 2023

Gaia speaks as Mother Earth, whispers softly to her child Child answers Isis, goddess of trees and forests wild Pachamama swaddles babe and holds…

AnomalyPoetry

Anomaly

HughLemmaOctober 11, 2023

I drive the same route daily, flip through the same stations, but today all my radio presets were phonemes and static. I ruled out…

AddictionPoetry

Addiction

james stephenOctober 10, 2023

I'm addicted to the abandoned rail trestle over Grindstone Creek it's far enough away to be romantic and it's in the woods I go…

Carry MePoetry

Carry Me

Raymond HuffmanOctober 9, 2023

After this pestilence is over if we are free again and I am still young enough We will go back to my birth mountains…

New HaikuPoetry

New Haiku

Jerry RatchOctober 8, 2023

The next time I have ringing in my head I’m not gonna answer it

Sleepless Again and AgainPoetry

Sleepless Again and Again

Nolcha FoxOctober 7, 2023

I think I’m tired when I retire, I know I fall asleep. Something’s wrong, I don’t know what. I sit up wide-eyed wondering. I…