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Category: poetry
Lower Michigan (Mackenzie Moore)
First thing on your docketonce ‘ya been pricked by the needle? Go get pricked by needlesfill the tank up with inksaturate the swathsthat stood vacant and lonely—like the kolache shop that ran out of money— all those months Go […]
The Deal With Bigfoot (Jack B. Bedell)
If the feng shui of your brain’s set up properly,Bigfoot doesn’t have to make a soundto communicate what he needs you to know. As long as you’re not jamming shitwith your phone or setting up […]
“Maggie the Cat” (Blake L. Bell)
Spend most of the family party daydreaming: visiting dive bars down the river, throwing back bourbon, taking home a rough man. Want to be punished. Always want to be taken apart. What if you run […]
Water Myth (Purgatory Story) [Benjamin Niespodziany]
after Evan Nicholls A shoebox of water weighs more than the rain. A melon of puddle. An apple of dirt. A hearse turns on its hearing aid to listen to the sea. It’s late. You […]
What to make of it all now? (H. R. Gibs)
I’ve made myself good so many times that my very edgeshave blurred like a penciled line scrubbed too many timesWith old pink rubber. I sit in this light wet end of July andTry to visualise […]
Las Tardes Con Los Muertos (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
after @notaleptic he shakes his headinto the walls of his face: ‘ “los muertos no hablan”y no algun más “¿por que?” I ask,receive no answer. Tio Juan sees ghostspero él está envejeciendo; él no oye […]
Seven Lines of Gratitude: A Rejection letter to Poets Who Run After Fire (Timi Sanni)
–& because sometimes, a muse becomes a peacock or because sometimes, a muse becomes a saint who revels in the glory of confessions that when a lie uncloaks and tries to hide between the lines […]
#soundslikemyweddingnight (Madeleine Corley)
Your joke hums and I can’tunhear it. As if you weren’tfrequenting motels where the headdesigners kerneled their ceilingsfor you and other fuckers. I bangmy fist against the wall I offeredto you and your lovers and […]
Rejection Letters 