Category: POETRY
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3 Poems by John Findura
YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN BURIED AND I DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE DEAD I don’t remember if we had been playing cards but once we sat at your parents’ kitchen table and sometime during that night you told me about your sister in the Florida hospital none of us knew you had a sister We…
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Voyager 1 Meets God; by Jessica Kanzler
After home I have seen light. And I have drifted unmoving through an emptiness That never saw me, small beneath spheres colossal casting shadows infinitesimal in the lit wake of titans. I am here to watch and to understand, and here is never the same. I am out, alone, the first to find what has…
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Tricky Wash; by Matthew Johnstone
People called coyotes will take you across, highways will have roses to stray the…
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Adjustment by Natalie Rose
adjustment* noun ad·just·ment \ə-ˈjəs(t)-mənt\ : a change that makes it possible for a person to do better or work better in a new situation After living in big cities on the east and west coast, and even in that Jackson Pollack-esque splatter of freeways and tract houses two hours south of here, Flagstaff can sometimes…
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I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings
I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings by Jen Karetnick Jen Karetnick is the author of three full-length books of poetry, two forthcoming, and four chapbooks of poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including Cimarron Review, december, North American Review, Poet’s Market 2013, Poets & Writers, Spillway, Submittable.com and Valparaiso Poetry…
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Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear
Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear The moon is a glowing white ear, passing between gingerbread houses where wasps build their paper hexes. You are not here so it can’t be changing for us, this celestial cochlea and canal trained at the earth teaching me to listen when your phone rings and rings its robotic…
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Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer
Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer We’re so thrilled you’ve offered to donate your time to our cause and know how you value the privilege to serve The police background check is just part of the process please visit your neighborhood sheriff who’ll make sure you’re felony free and that “sexual predator” isn’t a suffix attached to…
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Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz
Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz “Much we have to fear, big-mouth beside me!” —Osip Mandelstam This could be any era, and by any I mean none of them swept under the loss that was our decade we remember the sky’s oldest quotation marks and the weeks of holding our breath to keep other people from…
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FROM “1930-1963-1984” by Ginger Ko
BY GINGER KO American-born but always remembered: woman and not white when I put jade against my body it’s suffocating ***
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