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The Flowers Who Wanted To Be a WomanPoetry

The Flowers Who Wanted To Be a Woman

Paul BrookesMarch 9, 2021

primrose says I will be her lips bean says I will be her thighs broom says I will be be her clitoris meadowsweet says…

Carpe DiemPoetry

Carpe Diem

Marc WoodwardMarch 8, 2021

Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question brings the priest and the doctor in their long coats running over the fields.…

Road to Big SurPoetry, Readings, Video

Road to Big Sur

Lance JencksMarch 7, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCW3T3xZZwc For Lawrence Ferlinghetti When I ate a croissant in bed, flakes of brown crust fell upon my pillow, fell atop the sheets, and…

michael visits his favorite webcam girlPoetry

michael visits his favorite webcam girl

Jennifer WilderMarch 3, 2021

he takes a sky tram up the columbian mountains noticing the neighborhoods crumble deeper every meter they rise above the city center until sheet…

Hospital (Self Isolation Sonnet)Poetry

Hospital (Self Isolation Sonnet)

Paul BrookesMarch 2, 2021

Persuaded by my wife to return to our marital bed so she does not have to get up every two hours to monitor my…

Galileo Never Rode a RickshawPoetry

Galileo Never Rode a Rickshaw

Michael AckerFebruary 21, 2021

The moment Galileo Galilei innocently gave the Books the proverbial finger, it was clear, there and then, that we'd all end up in therapy.…

Kim gets the red dressPoetry

Kim gets the red dress

Jennifer WilderFebruary 20, 2021

I get the sequined jeans. In the window I catch a glance tight stretch denim, flared legs, my palms press down my bottom and…

A drawing of the one that got awayPoetry

A drawing of the one that got away

Anthony HughesFebruary 19, 2021

A crude black crayon drawing could be anyone. But the only other significant color is blue, in one eye. Heterochromia, the Internet offers. Etched…

10:08 a.m.Poetry

10:08 a.m.

james stephenFebruary 18, 2021

I'm retired the clock belongs to me now

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…