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C.N.P Poetry
allotment; housing a pregnant rabbit
By: Kaitlyn Airy allotment like the flowering stain on a blouse or a dog-eared book you change me when I press thumb to sand...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Mar 1, 2021
Finding Something New
By: John Jacobson A spring flows across an overgrown meadow between blue and yellow clouds of wild comfrey and buttercups. It pushes...

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Mar 1, 2021
sometimes the universe asks this of you; you are everything around the bird that i am
By: C. Henry Smith sometimes the universe asks this of you after Hailey Leithauser Sometimes supplication. Sometimes a long fast....

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Mar 1, 2021
Benediction
By: Aida Bode You have forgotten the moon, she's but a rusty penny lost in this oxidized corner of space her luck despised thrown by the...

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Mar 1, 2021
Cuckoldry
By: Allisa Cherry Viewing porn in which a wife clutches her husband’s face and makes him watch as she gives her neighbor a hand job, I am...

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Mar 1, 2021
WHAT PLAY IS THIS?; THIRD GRADE; SCAPEGOAT
By: Claire Scott WHAT PLAY IS THIS? Definitely the wrong play. I had auditioned for the lead in Siren Song. The neurotic alcoholic wife...

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Mar 1, 2021
In the Beginning There was Eagle Sex; The Salt Flats; The Unfinding of Me
By: Kelly Gray In the Beginning There was Eagle Sex I have many creation stories to tell you. First, there was Girl Hyena, the thick of...

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Mar 1, 2021
Blind Light
By: Amanda Woodard Sunlight strips the blinds & casts them aside. It’s the morning after. In this blind light, his pupils make room...

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Mar 1, 2021
Letters I’ve Written You, Mentally, Sometimes While Commuting
By: Beth Dufford 1. I now hope you aren’t keeping up. I imagined us on the phone earlier and you, out of boredom, tried to get me to say...

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Mar 1, 2021
Etude #4: Things I Pause and Consider
By: John Grischow A career as a carrier, a carrion, a canary; An infuriated furrier; a confused dictionary; A sound bite barrier; an...

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Feb 1, 2021
a new use of
By: Lauren Paris you are working on a piece out of clay you are working on a piece out of me now i am a piece your hands pushed into form...

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Feb 1, 2021
Discobolus; Bums on the Beach
By: Nicholas Karavatos Discobolus The cult of the individual in this churn of century is ostracist, is isolationist, is yet to be...

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Feb 1, 2021
Heart & Tongue; Urban Metastasis
By: Jeffrey G. Wang Heart & Tongue The heart, in orbit, beats without a mind. Moves without a soul. Speaks in tilled phrases, its words...

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Feb 1, 2021
Eventide in the slag field; There Used to be Pine Trees
By: Ree Sherwood Eventide in the slag field magmatic remains laid to rest under the wheels of some kid’s pickup littleyounghearts...

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Feb 1, 2021
CALIFORNIA; FISH BAR; THE SECOND TIME
By: Mara Lee Grayson CALIFORNIA A woman marries, not expecting to become a married woman. We grow used to walking in bare feet. Across...

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Feb 1, 2021
#8; #11
By: Ann Pedone #8 I’ve stopped pretending that I am ok with the Way things are I’m tired of always saying please and Thank you I want to...

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Feb 1, 2021
My Boyfriend, the Dungeon Master, at 6 Months Sober
By: Nancy Lynée Woo Sixteen dice collide on a wooden table, ice in a glass, sweating. The only viable option is always through the...

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Feb 1, 2021
The Grief of Gravity; Crash; Boxes
By: Ed McManis The Grief of Gravity They say it rains diamonds on Jupiter, Saturn too, and black holes aren’t really black. Gravity’s...

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Feb 1, 2021
Galatea’s Double-Vision; Aphrodite Takes the First Round; The Whaler’s Mermaid
By: Stella Saalman Galatea’s Double-Vision It’s been a very long time since I’ve been this drunk. There are two of me, or maybe three;...

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Feb 1, 2021
“A Stranger in Socorro, New Mexico, December 2017”
By: Shay Wills Christmas lights slouched along rooflines, Nearby birthday party laughter popped beneath Winter sun, cold and low in the...

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Feb 1, 2021
The First Protests; Prophecy (Judgment Day); The Fine Print (Dido Aeneae)
By: Angela Wei The First Protests Our water is breaking into street infants swum in firecrackers & sideways defiance Prophecy (Judgment...

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Feb 1, 2021
We ponder the destiny of our country and our lives the week before Election Day, 2020
By: Louise Barden Cassandra can cry out all she wants, but this can’t be stopped any more than water can stop itself from dropping over...

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Feb 1, 2021
Sexuality Undone
By: Emily Jacko shy enough, straight laced. strings controlled from above. i was the master. at both puppeteer and puppet. such tedious...

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Feb 1, 2021
LOVE LANGUAGES OF A COLONOSCOPY; ARIADNE
By: Judd Hess LOVE LANGUAGES OF A COLONOSCOPY This is a way you tell me that you live for me, making me lemon jello even though I’d...

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Feb 1, 2021
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