Gone Home

Poetry Mike Casetta -
A black leaping buck painted on a yellow diamond both warns & welcomes me. There is no need for words. My green house has red awnings & brown rabbit...
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Frankenstein Unwritten

Poetry Wim Coleman -
     "With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, ​      I collected the instruments of life around me, ​      that I...
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blackthren & brownthren

Poetry Rob Breeding -
sitting in a home, full of white privilege i try to comprehend what it means to be “of color,” never feeling much like a “person” in the...
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NO ZO MI .. の ぞ み

Art Jenn Zed -
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A Failed Attempt at Re-parenting

Poetry Mike Casetta -
I look in my rear view mirror & see myself as a boy in the back seat who wants to know if we are there yet. Look over here,...
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Restitution

Music Kaci Skiles Laws -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2KHFgIJlzI Wear this mask over your face. Be sure to hide your feelings displaced. I'm jaded, snide, and too emotional because I cry. Getting good at sealing your fate. The...
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Full Metal Bitch

Art Jenn Zed -
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a dog is a dog

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
the owner of a dog loves his dog. he gives him a name. he feeds him and waters him plays with him protects him defends him. but still a dog is nothing more than a dog.
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Taylor’s Painting Gallery

Art Taylor Bain -
Click a painting to view full-screen.
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REMY, LULU, AND THE BIG NOSE

Art Tom Strong -
A short story I drew/wrote for my 3 year old nieces. —Tom Strong
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fixed me, all right

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper
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Nothing Is Real—Series

Showcase Jenn Zed -
I never know what to say about my work except I needed to make it. —Jenn Zed Click any image to view full-screen.      
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Red

Music Kaci Skiles Laws -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf9nU1paL_w Rose red lipstick, ruby red orange writing on the bed. Blood on my skin, staining the threads crimson. It was too late. Time was turning nervous in my hands. I...
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Writer’s Block Acoustic

Music Kaci Skiles Laws -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgcKJXW_D-0 I've been writing all day, trying to find a phrase that doesn't need any formal wear and my hands are twine, tying my eyes wide. My cheeks are...
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Covid Times

Showcase OAF Artists & Writers -
Sarah Clancy May 2020 This crazy spring froze me right inside its own unnatural thaw. When I look to the generation behind myself I see nothing but a glossy...
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I’m Sorry I Cannot Attend Your Party

Poetry Lisa Summe -
It’s not your taste for cheap beer or the fact that your couch smells like boys. It’s not the way your little cat gets stoned by...
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Aljosja

Music Dennis Ramler -
https://soundcloud.com/flowermouth/aljosja
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On Doing Good in America

Poetry Andy Posner -
“If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.” —Bill Gates We admire the philanthropist for "giving...
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The too real dream of guilt in one glance

Poetry Lyn Lifshin -
I’ve been living with someone who is good      but a lover, an ex-con hunk’s back in town. It doesn’t matter he’s been dead for decades. Or...
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Photography heidi selig -
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Anatomy Of a Feline

Art Doug Flaherty -
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Indian Summer

Showcase Irene Han -
Medusa It’s late August in the city: sweet summer’s coming to a close. But where are you? The democratic debates have started, but I’m not watching. Most of...
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Eulogy of Fables

Poetry Miya Ko -
now that the hands can tell carnations from wood & the feet also understand the soothing of clay please let me confess that i love the meek welcome of the morning waking me up to the numbed noises of...
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the canvas of the covenant

Poetry silent lotus -
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Allegory for an Unreasonable Age

Poetry Andy Posner -
It was in Spain that men learned one can be right and still be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times...
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Halo Light in Dark Sky

Poetry Renee Elizabeth -
I tried to go to the store, but drove straight toward the huge moon. My car didn't sprout wings. I could not fly, so I turned round on wobbly tires back...
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A petaled season

Poetry Daniel J. Flore III -
all summer long I looked at flowers without even noticing they were there
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Common Misconceptions

Showcase Mark Preier -
The Odd One In Emergency Landing On Taurus IX Whoddaboy Excavation Site The Passage Face Time Pointer Collateral Collage A Bright Future
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The lady you keep yapping with on the phone

Poetry Daniel J. Flore III -
There's some lady you're always talking to on your phone. I hear you and this lady from our room all the time. I'm so...
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Lechmere Viaduct

Poetry Starr -
How do they cram all those sardines into each green can? Science is an afterthought.    
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The Humanist

Poetry David Belcher -
The hearth cracked, ashes spilling from the fire grate; and that same day a bird flew inside the house, a starling. Reaching out to catch it...
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Three Double Takes

Poetry Wim Coleman -
1 allegretto A zebra with a party horn and hat has crashed your thirtieth. This creature was your friend when you were three and lived beneath the checkered tablecloth and would come...
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Bathroom Haiku

Poetry Niall M Oliver -
Swiftly sliding steel I stop at the sudden sting— see pink shaving foam.
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I felt so secure I even wanted the flies there

Readings Daniel J. Flore III -
I was sick reading the bible given to me by a friend I kept thinking I was going into the blessing he put on it and back into...
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Blow Job

Poetry Miya Ko -
Yet I expect the same, kneel without a prayer, unzip with no looking, take out what bulges, like salt to my tongue. The arrant uselessness of my teeth, I just...
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In a Room With No Windows

Art Dale Patterson -
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HIS T-SHIRT

Poetry Jefferson Carter -
His burnt-orange t-shirt, black letters above the image of an AR-15, the slogan: “quickest way to a man’s heart.” I’d describe him, but why bother? My shrink left town, so...
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The Goddess

Art Jenn Zed -
Pencil and graphic ink pen, with some new reinking recently, on cartridge drawing paper—51cm x 29cm  
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Curated list of e-zines, publishers, and online communities for writers, artists, and photographers

Blog Open Arts Forum -
Here's a list of links to other interesting outlets for writers, artists, and photographers. Feel free to suggest additions to the list by responding...
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Killing conspicuous

Poetry Tom Strong -
I’m that dead tree standing sullen in a secluded summer grove waiting for winter to make me indistinguishable from my peers.
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Your Land Is My Land

Art Dale Patterson -
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in pursuit of dead presidents

Poetry Obed Ladiny -
you took away the fruits of the womb, along with the dear heart I once promised 'forever' to, with your lies. all i ever wanted was happiness. you've...
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Lies Told by a Metronome

Poetry Wim Coleman -
With the smirk of a soulless sociopath, the metronome spreads vicious libels against the sanity of protoplasmic cadences. * The metronome is a jealous god. Its...
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One rupee coin

Fiction Jay Gandhi -
A fast train from Pradipghat would take around 45-50 minutes to reach Bharatgadh. Marvan would travel daily between the two stations, in a second...
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I hated Tamaqua

Readings Daniel J. Flore III -
https://soundcloud.com/user-394055377/i-hated-tamaqua-live I hated Tamaqua and the early morning light in sleepy eyes the leftover drunks wandering around the gazebo the food stamp fat ass roast beef feasts at...
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& as far from

Poetry silent lotus -
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Sky Kitchen

Art Dale Patterson -
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Three by Pat Perrin

Art Pat Perrin -
Inception: Life Emerges Here on this fleck among the uncountable stars something takes form, eventually to wonder why we are and what to each other....
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spiegel im spiegel

Poetry Michael Acker -
an ocean of inquiries, curious inspections, questions swelling since that primordial day of light when our minds first opened their eyes will, one day, not long after we have perished, begin to evaporate...
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Gateleg Table

Poetry Joan Colby -
Walnut with turned legs That unfold in a triptych For dining or card play. Carried in an ox-cart from Minnesota To a Dakota homestead. Grasshoppers destroyed the crop So they...
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The Best is Yet to Come

Art Lorette C. Luzajic -
mixed media on gallery canvas 36x48" Lorette C. Luzajic www.mixedupmedia.ca
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Juvenile delinquent

Art Marcel Herms -
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My doctor said to play with my cat as a coping mechanism to prevent my suicide

Poetry Daniel J. Flore III -
My doctor said to play with my cat as a coping mechanism to prevent my suicide but neither one of us feels like playing today I...
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Call this

Poetry Roger Fizzerton -
I guess you saw it coming I guess you'd marked the edge well as we walked the path failure is its own reward I guess you'd call me...
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Pageantry

Poetry silent lotus -
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saying goodbye

Poetry Stella Read -
reading Leonard Cohen by candlelight, visualising bonfire night, your birthday were you still alive under that streetlamp, we could walk together to your bench and talk awhile it’s what we always did best— just talk,...
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if your death were a myth

Poetry Stella Read -
it could be fashioned of iridescent plumage, gilt and crimson, a phoenix in transition, transformed, unbeaten  
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vámonos a la playa

Poetry Lawrence George -
is this thing that we say in this Mar Vista restaurant that i open and close open and close open every night it means, to us let’s go home lucio is the dishwasher in this place he’s...
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The Politician’s Con

Art Dale Patterson -
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The Minstrel Savior

Poetry Wim Coleman -
If I remember right, Jesus arrived at the trailer where we lived in Glenville during the summer when Papaw Henry poured gasoline all around the elm tree...
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Toe Tappin’

Poetry Michael B. Carroll Jr. -
Heel-to-toe, he taps to the harmonics of reverberating bounces and swish-swooshing tempos, and to the serenades of sirens outside his window. He dances the Dig Toe Step to beer...
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Pathetique

Fiction Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri -
Mother plays piano. It’s a dark night. She plays all the saddest pieces. Tchaikovsky seems to break her piano apart with fervency. Debussy’s sad,...
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Believe You Me

Poetry Mike Casetta -
It’s true, what you said, if I don’t love myself I can’t really love you. I kissed my reflection on the lips last night in the motel mirror mostly as...
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Boxes

Poetry Rob Breeding -
I. My father would’ve laughed his ass off at how overly concerned I am about treating his ashes like a delicate antique; he’d say he didn’t care ‘cause he was dead. My...
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Capitalism in Cambodia

Poetry Lawrence George -
‘member seeing your little brother just outside Angkor Wat wearing your father’s face ‘fracted through a dented, busted rear view scooter mirror peeling plastic husks from Milky Way Candy bars Kalashnikov slung ‘round his shoulder: like friending...
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The red fantail is my favorite

Poetry Rob Breeding -
I sometimes think of Lazarus when I feed the seven fishes in my little pond, my sister coming back to life, asking how goldfish could live so long I...
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Is There Freedom in Forgetting or Being Forgotten?

Poetry Andy Posner -
“A breathless Death is not so cold as a Death that breathes.” —Emily Dickinson I’m no Dante, lost though I may be, Nor you my Beatrice,...
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Setting Precedent

Poetry Mike Casetta -
The man swallowed 480 ball bearings. One sphere a minute during his last eight-hour shift. No unemployment lines for the human anchor sitting upright on the floor of the sea. The scuba...
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Big Orange Sun

Poetry Trish Saunders -
Come to Italy and live in the sun, you write. Serenity is a giant orange waiting to be plucked from the gnarled tree near the old tracks. Look,...
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.tate liverpool.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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here’s why you do it

Poetry Lawrence George -
write for the lost the fucked the insane most of us are never comfortable anywhere born into a boxer’s stance weak like fading orchids, weeping a NYC fire escape hellish summertime shifting, endlessly downing pints of IPA’s b4 winter salsa...
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Leaving the New Hope Farm House

Poetry Sara Clancy -
When moving was certain Anna pried off the old wrought iron bell and replaced it with a ghost. An evening echo to ring down a thousand twilight suppers...
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Coincidental conjugations: A series of digital compositions

Art Dale Patterson -
As I grow older, I see how places and events all interconnect, that what I do with my life affects not only my family...
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My Co-Workers Are All Ghosts

Poetry Susan Peters -
I stand, pale fine hands clasped over my long skirt and white starched apron - docent to strangers, in the kitchen of an ancient Vermont...
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I have never known a Tasmanian…

Poetry Delainie Littlejohn -
...though Darling took a charge for one once, and, thrusting her arm into a gum's hollow, she left us well behind to break it...
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QUEPOS

Poetry Martina Reisz Newberry -
QUEPOS * A chunk of a rare type of meteorite crashed into a Costa Rican village this spring. Experts say it likely contains clues to...
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What remains behind

Poetry Trish Saunders -
My state allows us to compost human remains I imagine a flower growing from your mouth violet or weed? who cares really— be a place for bones to...
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Countless

Poetry Elvis Otis -
I counted four old people scanning groceries at six open checkouts I see them everywhere in retail jobs we held in our twenties jobs you kicked...
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Sweet Jane

Poetry Jenn Zed -
Jane from Hastings got me a 25g score of smack from some ex of hers we spread foil and crumble a small amount of the powder onto the foil lighting...
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The Trump Effect

Art Tom Strong -
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The Dictator’s Rant

Art Dale Patterson -
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Delainie’s little something or others

Showcase Delainie Littlejohn -
Panasonic camcorder as a self portrait At most, it was a routine guess before I had industry down a tunnel. I caught the business of...
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Selfie with a Dying Cat

Poetry Lisa Summe -
I’m at the vet with my roommate while her cat is dying behind a few sets of closed doors, & I notice the purple...
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negative balance at the flea market lice market

Poetry Daniel J. Flore III -
nothing's worth anything anymore I'm surprised my memories were worth anything at all hours of old video games sold to some woman who was so mean it...
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poetry yard sale

Readings Daniel J. Flore III -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCKt7im62ik  
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Elvis Has Left the Building

Art Lorette C. Luzajic -
36x48," mixed media on gallery canvas
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Double Trouble

Art Lorette C. Luzajic -
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Blight

Art Taylor Bain -
Acrylic on burlap canvas 18" x 24" Decay is the theme here. My two inspirations were pond scum and tree diseases. I mixed baking soda, baking powder,...
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Eaten up by an empty ache

Poetry David Belcher -
I pour my thoughts into a lamp’s light, and I sense I am heard. I speak as a father, reciting all the usual warnings and legends, but...
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Last Ode to a Sweet Apricot

Poetry Miya Ko -
It was the season of fruit flies that brought us to the orchard— no reptile could ever convince me that you were the gravest of sins. I caught...
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The World Tree

Poetry Margarita Serafimova -
I hurt you, you hurt me twice as much. Here is how thick boughs grow.
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Death of a Horse Chestnut

Poetry Marc Woodward -
I’m waiting for your carcass to be stripped of all its withered foliage by the gales. Your leaves were screwed and twisted back in June, brown long...
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How to Gut a Carp

Poetry Chloe Monet Sutch -
Keep her in the dark. In water. She's no good dead. Gotta cut her while she's fresh. Slip your chipped knuckles into her accordion...
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Sightseeing

Poetry Tom Strong -
Instead of travelling to a place I’ve never been to see something I’ve never seen, I prefer the seclusion of my backyard. Marveling over the elusive residing in familiar...
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The first time I French kissed you

Poetry Lisa Summe -
was the same as the first time I kissed a girl the same as the first time I kissed anyone. My tongue in your mouth like...
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birds and other fly creatures

Poetry Anthony Hughes -
everything gone flaccid my droopy blue suede strap on little anchors in clouds precipitated worms choke fly crows like bags of black keys not meant to amuse you never know when to screw when called upon, I act test fuck...
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work

Poetry Jess Kangas -
he only hires pretty girls i knew that as soon as i handed in the application the rest of the cashiers are brooding brunettes and a young brassy blonde steve was pissed off, "you always...
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Haiku

Poetry Stella Read -
heron stalks planted, sunfish glisters—sharp beak snaps— morning dissipates
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Aubade

Poetry Gerald Parker -
Sadly, I imagine you will wake, too, because the silence has changed colour, the way, fluting across a murky water, a swan’s light may gently startle you, gleaming...
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Air Bag

Fiction Jill Winkowski -
i have tasted air bag, it’s a badge of honor, a one-way ticket to epiphany, it tastes like burnt rubber, like powdery words sucked...
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Okay, Then (A Boomer Replies)

Poetry Sara Clancy -
with a nod to Joseph Rice We only rent the past from the shade of our declining tribe. They are our elders laughing under the polaroid image...
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To Stick Around

Poetry Boston Gordon -
the times I pined to leave the city the clefts between myself and the friends I lost the jobs I lost, the plants that succumbed to mold, to...
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Selfie as a Dyke

Poetry Lisa Summe -
The problem with being a dyke is standing in front of your mirror, naked, feeling both admiration & shame for the woman in front of you, who locks eyes with...
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The Right Things

Poetry Lisa Summe -
I eat a half dozen Funfetti cupcakes & then one more because I cheat on my diet & I cheat on my girlfriend in my imagination only in my...
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America in 2019

Poetry Wim Coleman -
(after Shelley’s “England in 1819”) A demagogic moron mad with power; his brood snapping their tongues at golden flies with reptile grins of brazed entitlement; the people’s servants...
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Charles Bukowski Festival, 2020

Blog Open Arts Forum -
The Charles Bukowski Society (Bukowski-Gesellschaft in German) will celebrate the first 100 years of Charles Bukowski in Bamberg, Germany, from June 22 through June...
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Summer Couple & Other Work

Art Stian Kjørsvik -
Summer Couple Abyss Entrance Cocaine Voodoo
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Poem in Which I Imagine My Dad Agrees to Shave My Head

Poetry Lisa Summe -
When he asks why, I say because I’m out of money. & because I know there’s a shoebox in the garage with a pair of clippers...
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Things to think about when writing or reading poetry

Contributor Blogs Eliot Jacobson -
Below are some poetry thoughts from Wayne Dodd, from a course I took from him in 1991 at Ohio University. Language as magic, as...
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Coming Out

Poetry Lisa Summe -
I didn’t really learn what bisexual was until college, part Intro to Women’s Studies textbooks, part kissing girls with boyfriends. The books spit out words like fluid & continuum, & the...
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Old Maid

Poetry Casey Killingsworth -
We all try to get what we can out of life. Me, I could make do if you give me a job that pays enough to get...
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inkspill

Poetry Daniel J. Flore III -
she spread her legs open with her pen and let me fill in the spaces
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Anna and the Scourge

Poetry RC James -
We memorized poems to pass them on, past the strident winds out of the Kremlin. When I walk the avenue lined with our history, I trust you to guard the ashes...
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He Will Build Wings from Sheets of Paper

Poetry Mike Casetta -
My friend, a poet, over a cup of coffee, depressed & roaming around in his head like a bear looking for berries while waiting for the salmon...
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Rust Series: Photographs

Photography Seth Alan Durbin -
Inisheer Rust 3Decomposition Series 1, Plassey InteriorEngine Room Descomposition Series II Plassey RustDecomposition Series Harbor Rust I Inisheer Rust IV
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The Last Days of Denmark

Art Jenn Zed -
Watercolour and acrylic paint on L'Aquarelle Canson Heritage Block 200gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper - 34cm x 51cm
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Thick as thieves

Poetry Casey Killingsworth -
I wake up one morning and look out the window and there’s no car in the driveway but I’m not going to call this theft; it’s retribution, paying me...
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Breathless

Poetry Josianne Barrette-Moran -
Black leather, on Jeggings, tobacco A femme Danny Zuko Something’s about to happen Something baaaaad Streets designed let alone the -iesque for running I guess Can one run from ovulation? All that for a kilometer, ardency...
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Consuming Their Innocence

Art Dale Patterson -
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Red

Poetry Amanda Villafranco -
like the rug she sat on, memorizing the patterns, avoiding confrontation, she chose laundry: the warm lullabies emanated from the dryer, rocked her in a way that she hadn’t been...
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Scarecrow

Art Dale Patterson -
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Eclogue for Santa Isabel

Poetry July Westhale -
Over here, solvent skyline. A virgin in white, on a hill. Simple. How cities seed. Every South American epicenter, but usually a man, a cross. An extended release...
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Zed Point – Android Girls

Music Jenn Zed -
https://soundcloud.com/jennzed/01-slacker-1?in=jennzed/sets/android-girls This is my new album, which I've been working on for the best of this year. All the tracks have been created specifically for this...
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Origin Story–part 1

Blog Jenn Zed -
The penultimate track from my forthcoming album Gradients of Light and The Destruction of Space. Piano and video by me. Please watch in fullscreen high-definition where...
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The Day Glenn Miller’s Plane Disappeared

Poetry Trish Saunders -
Here's the secret about war, she thinks, it's such a bore, government shacks, feckless roaches, harsh shampoo if you can get it, staticky radio tuned to cooking...
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De wil van het volk

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on cardboard, 19 x 27 cm, 2019
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Before the Storm

Art Dale Patterson -
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Menace

Art Renee Elizabeth -
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Daniel J. Flore III: Poetry reading at Newtown Bookshop

Blog Daniel J. Flore III -
https://soundcloud.com/floreiii
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The House on Tilden Avenue

Poetry Jose Oseguera -
Was a pair of trousers With five pockets: Strewn, wrinkled, gouged Empty when Mom first told us She was leaving it To live with her new husband— Her third boyfriend...
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The dogs are at it again

Art Marcel Herms -
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A More Perfect Union

Poetry Andy Posner -
And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a...
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.family.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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Apricot

Art Jenn Zed -
Watercolour on L'Aquarelle Canson Heritage Block 200gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper - 51cm x 29cm
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The Queen of Hearts Shops at Whole Foods

Art Dale Patterson -
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The Window & Other Works

Showcase Renee Elizabeth -
The Window Traversing Alone Yearning like a flower looking to tilt its face toward sun, only night clutches the world in loneliness, when neither moon nor stars are out. Dark opaque clouds wrap...
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Setting Precedent

Poetry Mike Casetta -
The man swallowed 480 ball bearings. One sphere a minute during his last eight-hour shift. No unemployment lines for the human anchor sitting upright on the floor of the sea. The scuba...
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Urban Exploration – Excavating the Everyday

Showcase Mark Preier -
Click the first image to start full-screen view. ...
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The Tannhäuser Gate

Art Jenn Zed -
RIP Rutger Hauer —Jenn Zed Mixed media on Strathmore 500 Series Illustration Board Heavyweight Vellum—51cm x 29cm
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Jordan Trethewey & Friends Read from “Spirits for Sale” at The Tipsy Muse Cafe

Blog Jordan Trethewey -
https://www.facebook.com/jordan.trethewey.16/videos/544170026359890/
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Entrance

Art Stian Kjørsvik -
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The Joy of Hurling Trash

Poetry Susan Peters -
Long military coat, snapping blue eyes a flower, pinned on her sleeve, not over her breast where it should have been. Grey hair stuck out from her...
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Kaiwah Island/Ocean Course

Poetry Dale Patterson -
Boulevards of grass barbered in flattops, borders of beach sand and rough. I am here to prove who I am but being a novice the bend of the wind is a...
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Rakinewis (The Capestrano Warrior)

Poetry Marc Woodward -
For the ruination of Palmyra and after P B Shelley His shroud was campion in May; a king's cape of crocus in November. Curled olive roots held...
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SECRETS

Poetry Martina Reisz Newberry -
What the stiff breeze and the ocean have to say remains a mystery. Who are we to try to understand the splinters of a broken boat that...
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The Future of Rain

Poetry Eliot Jacobson -
Hilary brought mom and dad from Ashland where for the last decade they’d been useful in her home as bookends and paperweights— we scattered them on a hillside mom’s wish at...
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Five Women Admiring a Still Life

Art Dale Patterson -
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Sacrifice

Art Stian Kjørsvik -
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As I Cross the Bartholomew County Line Last Saturday Night

Poetry Amanda Villafranco -
lightning bug streaks illuminate my windshield, July nights winding home, slow down bone glow of tombstones, soon moonglow the earth sips the sky, red wine sun bobbing lower and...
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Exhausted hotel rooms

Poetry Trish Saunders -
The sound of your shoes dropping, ​ ...
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1950s Chicago Tomboy

Poetry Janice Ball -
Dickie Sweeney and David Meyer don’t seem to care when she sidles up to the neighborhood boy group assembled in Roger’s backyard to throw a football. They also build snow...
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Scarecrow

Art Stian Kjørsvik -
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Midnight Sun

Art Stian Kjørsvik -
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Shattered

Art Dale Patterson -
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Ayin

Art Stian Kjørsvik -
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he chose to

Poetry
do his suffering in grand style… starting off with beer in the morning, then the good wine as the afternoon and the memories kicked in. toward evening he switched to Grey Goose and finished the night with his old friend,...
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JENN ZED CHALLENGE: Ekphrastic Review writing responses

Blog Jordan Trethewey -
Hi everyone, File this one under "historical news." In April I guest edited an Ekphrastic Challenge featuring the art of OAF editor extraordinaire Jenn Zed. If you...
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Understanding Time Travel

Art Jenn Zed -
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Results of DALE PATTERSON CHALLENGE published!

Blog Jordan Trethewey -
Hey fellow lOAFers! Head on over to The Ekphrastic Review today and check out the featured responses to @Dale Patterson's piece, "After the Storm." Cheers! Jordan
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.niche 2.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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Sometimes When I Walk

Art Renee Elizabeth -
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the girl not exactly from Ipanema

Poetry Jenn Zed -
last i heard she was running coke for some club owner in Rio from São João de Meriti to São Cristóvão and up and down Copacabana to pay for her penthouse apartment...
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Recurring Dream

Poetry Martin Slavin -
I stand on a bridge between my two worlds. The river and the moon are hushed tonight. They know innocence. The moon bows slightly in humility while death, disguised by the...
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Room for Dreams

Art Dale Patterson -
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When the will to survive is stronger than love

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
It's hard for me to accept things the way they are. I want to fight for what's right and fair. Acceptance is a part of survival. I...
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Self Portrait in dark mood

Art george roesch johnson -
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you have to see it from her POV

Poetry David E. Matthews -
just a morceau, perhaps more so, than usual
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Mexican Hat Dance

Art Bill Flanagan -
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No Time to Say Hello, Goodbye

Poetry Michael Acker -
With no time to spend with my wife and children over breakfast this morning, I went around the table and simply pressed the like buttons on their faces.
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It Is written

Poetry Michael Acker -
At the supermax prison books on the subject of superdeterminism are, predictably, in super high demand, flying off the shelves seemingly faster than the speed of light.
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Breathing Clean Air

Art Dale Patterson -
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Neurojacked

Poetry Jordan Trethewey -
Recreated images of faces now available via EEG scans. So accurate, police sketch artists will soon apply for employment insurance benefits, while witnesses are tapped like portable...
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De oproerkraaier

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2019
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Tuesday’s Stone (Six Of Stars.)

Poetry Starr -
I pay attention to sunlight, watch it ribbon in the tops of trees. (Kisses are not the answer.) I'm at war with the walls watching summer branches bend in the...
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The Gig Econ

Poetry Lawrence George -
Uber drivers drive reckless, they loop, round and round circling Big Ben, throwing fade patterns impossible to defend selling shirts, touchdown! outside Heinz Field coming out the woodwork they dream of paper straws covered...
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Perverse and Saintly

Poetry Cameron McClure -
it started by sucking cyanide from the pits on the edge of a berried desert brutal emptiness dripped from within cramping confusing causing seizures a mexican stand-off between indigestible...
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Waning & Waxing

Poetry silent lotus -
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she has a couple of rugs

Poetry Soodabeh Saeidnia -
silk for those who gladly take off shoes wool for those in fear of dancing barefoot
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One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds

Poetry Dick Holmes -
One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds with a tip of the hat to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is to go from...
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Encounter with a clown

Poetry Marc Woodward -
I met a clown in plain clothes drinking in a bar—of course. He told me a kid once asked him “Are you a real clown? Underneath the make...
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Experiments with a copy machine part 1

Art Marcel Herms -
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Anna and the Scourge

Poetry RC James -
We memorized poems to pass them on, past the strident winds out of the Kremlin. When I walk the avenue lined with our history, I trust you to guard the ashes...
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Electric pH Acid Test (collage by Bernie Langs)

Art Bernie Langs -
I created this collage for an employee art show at a medical research institution. It plays on the idea of pH litmus tests for...
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San Francisco

Poetry Marc Woodward -
“It’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.” —Oscar Wilde Sundown sets the painted ladies dancing on the eastern...
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The Great Hanah Jon Taylor on Sax

Photography george roesch johnson -
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Polar Ideas

Art Dale Patterson -
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Dancing in December

Poetry Trish Saunders -
Frost everywhere this morning; those roses never knew when to quit. Look at their withered petals, like peering into my own face. I’m inside this watering can...
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The man who pretends he knows it all

Art Marcel Herms -
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Before Divorce

Poetry Eliot Jacobson -
We bought our Ford Falcon for $200. There were spiders in the ashtrays. You kept a closet full of men's XL shirts and always used the upstairs bathroom. The dogs...
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Hiding from the sun

Poetry Michael Ashley -
there’s only a few stupider things to waste your time on like avoiding death or praying
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Toby, Tobias Dog

Poetry Doug Flaherty -
He mouths a left-over thigh, whines a new path in the grass, tries to tell himself about bone, tongue-licking the marrow to taste of the once-living. I did...
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Con man

Art Marcel Herms -
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Code: Acrylic and hardboard series

Art Jenn Zed -
Code 1 Code 2 Code 3 Code 4 Code 5 Code 6 Code 7 Code 8 Code 9 All paintings acrylic on hardboard
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.the gardener.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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A Man, a Banana, Panama!

Poetry Edmund Conti -
(Just so you know, I usually take a walk after breakfast. And as I leave the dining room I may take a banana with...
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You’re Fired, Psycho

Poetry Lawrence George -
i fell in love with my former employer in the East Village, NYC he owns a Testudines sanctuary in central California after termination and my great wandering i found myself standing on the side...
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Keeping up appearances

Art Marcel Herms -
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digital/mixed media art

Art Doug Flaherty -
Sit Down Beside Me Girl of Our Dreams or Nightmares Mother of Flowers Dressed To Kill Self Portrait with Alterations Beatific Vision Girl with Polka Dots Creation of the Universe Sammy Mi Casa...
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Het contact met de medemens verliep moeizaam

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2019
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u&me

Poetry Tiko Lewis -
. . . 1. . it's not like we'll be here foreverwe must give thanks for the blistersthanks for the tarps we hide underfor the shame of being human -like everyone elseage teaches...
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.reborn.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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Last Note

Poetry Trish Saunders -
Little shell of a poem, I wanted to send you into the world rich with meaning—mine. Here you come back empty-hulled. Anyone with dregs to share, pile in. Seaweed or...
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Hidden Riddles

Poetry Maria Mazzenga -
A quest for spiders might lead to entrapment in silk threads Palm reading: infinity is embedded in the ice crystals of hand-shaped clouds Music vapors sing:...
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Arctic

Video Jenn Zed -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSz7rZzZQRM Music and video - Jenn Zed Cello composed and played by Yukiko Louvière, Berlin This is a pre-release track from my forthcoming album 'Gradients of Light...
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A dangerous journey

Art Marcel Herms -
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in Wait of Return

Poetry silent lotus -
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Patterns and Light

Photography Mark Preier -
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Stubble

Poetry Cameron McClure -
usually I wear tweed like the ageing bachelor I am carry a pipe in an inside pocket behave politely give thanks and compliments about the food then leave early as if...
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After the coquilles Saint Jacques

Poetry silent lotus -
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Erasures

Poetry Joan Colby -
Begin redacting. Blacking out Until what’s left is cryptic With knowledge only you can Penetrate. Choreographer of Significance. The words pirouette At the barre. Lozenges like Coffins of those shipped...
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This fierce year paces

Poetry Sara Clancy -
behind every plan to bring her home. Like the burning bush landmark on Tiger Mountain Road, she is a bright detail withdrawn by the season and...
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Jennifer Harley

Poetry Lawrence George -
you’re insane she says you’re just another one of those assholes who falls in love one of those fools who rides motorcycles through big cities
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Death comes flying

Art Marcel Herms -
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The Juggler’s Eyes Look Up and Beyond

Art Dale Patterson -
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Brain dead fuckwits everywhere

Poetry Michael Ashley -
waxing their cars on Sunday afternoons plodding towards darkening horizons pushing their prams eating their leggings at the back end and stuffing a Gregs into the front all of...
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Flipping Through Pages to Get to the End of the Story

Art Dale Patterson -
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The Blue Ghost

Fiction Ann Kammerer -
He gave her a book that was navy blue and hardcover and had a strip of numbers taped on the spine. “You’ll like it,” he...
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Tokyo Jazz

Art Dale Patterson -
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A shame for the angels

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, 2019
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Only Black: Selected Photographs

Photography Jem Raid -
Amber bridge A footpath and bridlepath that was once a proper field road leads down steeply to the river. As well as the footbridge there...
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You can’t do that in front of decent people

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper, 21 x 25 cm, 2019
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Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”

Poetry Miya Ko -
Last Word Before he left, his finger on my arm drawing something, I said it quick: blossom, but it felt like goodbye. Lesson for Gluttons I didn't know how to devour passion fruits 'till...
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Tokyo Subway Salary Men

Photography george roesch johnson -
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The Minister’s Daughter

Art Dale Patterson -
The technique is called blockout poetry, a type of found poetry. I used selected words from a page in one of Flannery O’Connor’s short...
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Before Dreaming You Fall Through a Hole

Art Dale Patterson -
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