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KetchupPoetry

Ketchup

Ann KammererJuly 23, 2022

My father once threw a bottle of ketchup at my mom’s head, then a fork that stuck in tainted wallpaper until the hot dog…

Strawberry PanicPoetry

Strawberry Panic

Jenn ZedJuly 20, 2022

i believe in little gods who gather at doors and windows looking in waiting for a gap in each entrance, a portal festooned with…

cool air warm waterPoetry

cool air warm water

Dale PattersonJuly 17, 2022

white collared loons question existence claim enough faith to tip toe on water. fog clings to the shore smothers reeds remnants of fire smoldering…

High LifePoetry

High Life

StarrJuly 16, 2022

Shattered bottle on sidewalk; city birds ingest diamonds.

DuckPoetry

Duck

James T. StemmleJuly 10, 2022

in the interest of full disclosure striving for transparent honest searching for beauty and its friend with privileges truth disclosing the process a dangling…

Passing the BukPoetry

Passing the Buk

Scott DouglasJuly 9, 2022

I was thinking about Bukowski the other day while taking a shit. I used a week old Merlot as mouthwash while waiting. I stood…

MournersPoetry

Mourners

Andy PosnerJuly 3, 2022

“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne...” —James Russel Lowell We are all mourners now, our clothes funeral shrouds we tear…

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Sonja Benskin MesherJune 29, 2022

do we describe what we see or maybe tell the tale inside round the corner on the wall are the bullet holes

SaraPoetry

Sara

Mike CasettaJune 19, 2022

Sara’s real father, while drunk on wine & ebony thighs, jumped ship in the Mediterranean during the winter of ’54 & started a second…

Hips like there’s no water nearPoetry

Hips like there’s no water near

Nathalie SpaansJune 8, 2022

In class I sat with a Loreley with goldenes hair. At five she told K.: "Our sandbox is full of witches' teeth." K. talks…

MY MOM’S BOYFRIENDSPoetry

MY MOM’S BOYFRIENDS

Daniel J. Flore IIIJune 5, 2022

one had stringy long hair he drove with bare feet and once came over to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory he laid on…

Don’t Wake DaddyPoetry

Don’t Wake Daddy

Mélissa GustafsonJune 4, 2022

tip toe tread bone crunch chime eggshell dread all the time