tape metal mesh tongues on glass pane eyes, a translucent autumn makes haste for exit; it tries to leave the gutter conglomerate of affections in shedding, of nose twitches, of wings in paralysis, of butterflies in flee from breastfed saplings, of everyday eclipses hiding in your sock drawer. you’ll close your lips around the filter […]
Read more "Sharvaree Kowale – 3 poems"Dear Dad, Why? Went shopping together:Boot Barn, Buckle, Barnes & Noble.Blasted to the same music:banda, old corridos, new releases.Went on food runs:Chick-fil-A, Canes, Chipotle.Spilled tea at Starbucks.Planned to travel the whole world together.You supported my crazy ideas: bungee jumping,skydiving, purpling my hair.Liked going on ice cream runsjust because I love ice cream.Everytime you picked me […]
Read more "Jessica Cabrera – DEAR DAD, WHY?"if i were a man if i were a man,id be a welderid work a blue collar9 to 7 job id bring my wife and daughterfreshly picked roses everydayon my way home from work i would run corporationsmake cash flow like a riveri’d be strong and resilienthold my head higher thanmy ego although, i’m not […]
Read more "MARISOL ARIN – IF I WERE A MAN"I’m Ulaanbaatar It’s May I’m out of registerit’s the cherry blossoms I’m quick and dirtyI need some means restrictiona mistake seen from afarMaybe it’s the lilacs I’m mindful sexI’m back of the envelope I’m Pearl SquareI’m a baby near a boiling kettlea tiger on a calendarCould it be the apple tree I’m instamaticI’m back of […]
Read more "Bridget Meeds – 4 poems"Hallucination N°1I’ve been in the midnightgarden for a while.A boy wakes upunder a black tree,a dog latrine.He pulls on the same hoodof the slavesentenced to deathby the indifferenceof the blind thinkersand goes back to sleep.His life has no name.There is the moonand the mathematicsof the persian,he trades his logical madnessamong the dustbins.He wanted to fly […]
Read more "Bartleby Adams – Hallucination N°1"We Have a Full Guide to Resetting Your Password I don’t have time for a full guide, I don’t have time for this shit. I need to be glued to my Sony 45 inch screen watching 99 River Street, with Peggy Castle behind a bar in a low lit cushioned room knocking me out with her […]
Read more "Peter Mladinic – We Have a Full Guide to Resetting Your Password"Mouse Super Cutie wood-mouse lived by the garden pond. A small hole gap in the wall led into compact accommodation affording everything he wanted though very different from his childhood home in the high wall at the very top of the garden. There he had learned the skills he would need as an adult, especially […]
Read more "LYNN WHITE – MOUSE"The Name of My Bride It matters not whether what liesat the bottom of the lake is hardboiled eggs, marizpan, car batteries,the Senator, a Biblical abomination,the handbook for your exerciseequipment, the loch ness monster,even a good dose of lichen. It’s lessabout what is there than what youcan prove is there, what you canmake a tentful […]
Read more "ROBERT BEVERIDGE – THE NAME OF MY BRIDE"Tears for what I hear So much sadness exists within a bird’s song. Do not get me wrong. I can hear the whistles that have all the sweetness of certain pistils. What bothers me is that no matter how much a bird tries, it cannot change the tune of its winged tribe. It could never […]
Read more "BOB MCNEIL – Tears for what I hear"LIGHTHOUSE SILHOUETTE The lighthouse stands in front of the setting sun; a day’s natural protection against shorelines and snags lurking in one’s path. The lighthouse silhouette stands between – prepared, primed, hand on the switch as the sun sets, an afterglow evaporates into darkness strobed by the lighthouse. ~~~ BACK DAYS Looking back, vision blurs […]
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