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Safe TextPoetry

Safe Text

Ann KammererJanuary 3, 2021

She wondered how an old boyfriend spent New Year’s Eve, if he was there with his wife being nice, or maybe mean saying her…

Resolving RealityPoetry

Resolving Reality

Mir-Yashar SeyedbagheriDecember 30, 2020

New Year, resolutions rising from reverie running outdoors with a smile singing and skipping into very concrete streets resolve to pay credit card bills,…

WaymarkersPoetry

Waymarkers

Marc WoodwardDecember 22, 2020

Today I stop to photograph a backroad milestone which reclines in fescue and rough dandelions. The miles ahead, the miles behind. Simple numbers all…

RaphaelPoetry

Raphael

Mike CasettaDecember 21, 2020

the Archangel with the power to heal, hovers over the roof of my house. He’s been up there since you left. I went to…

Ethnic CleanserPoetry

Ethnic Cleanser

Paul BrookesDecember 20, 2020

Removes unsightly people whose grease and dirt spoil your landscape. Cleans as it polishes, replaces their awful smell with fresh fragrances. Their profane beliefs…

a tale of two poets and a boy from the BronxPoetry

a tale of two poets and a boy from the Bronx

Emalisa RoseDecember 19, 2020

Henry was brilliant; at least he had me believing he was. He read at the Coffee and Cruellers, the place with the sawdust and…

My Father Dreams of ShipsPoetry

My Father Dreams of Ships

Trish SaundersDecember 16, 2020

My father remembers ancient banyan trees. He sees ghosts in the tall temple grass, smells rain on abandoned sugar cane. He watches the ocean…

Do Not ResuscitatePoetry

Do Not Resuscitate

Tom StrongDecember 14, 2020

He was positive at 96 approved for hospice care on O2 and morphine to make labored breathing comfortable. His last thought was walking from…

UmweltPoetry

Umwelt

Jenn ZedDecember 13, 2020

1/4 kgPoetry

1/4 kg

Jay GandhiDecember 10, 2020

Looking at a man selling tomatoes my intellect begins to play a game— are there enough in the fridge? If there are too many…

Totalitarian OrnithologyPoetry

Totalitarian Ornithology

Miya KoDecember 9, 2020

    All animals are equal,     but some animals are     more equal than others.         — George…

Pattern of LifePoetry

Pattern of Life

LA BrownDecember 8, 2020

They call it Pattern of Life The high resolution images Data, collected by satellite Analysed to spot the unusual To predict what happens next Make…