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C.N.P Poetry
Directions for When You Leave; I was born out of
By: Daniele Spagnolo Directions for When You Leave knock into comets with all hard skin, you are mixed of clay and dirty water. what a...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Oct 1, 2018
Severed; A bullet-train full of celebrities
By: Hussam Jefee-Bahloul Severed How can I explain to my mother that solitude is unique too? how can I explain to my brother this...

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Oct 1, 2018
Postcards
By: Kathryn Ward I remember a butterfly who lands on my dress because it has a flower on it. Somewhere else someone is crying I remember...

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Oct 1, 2018
Selfies in the Sun; Melons
By: Bobby Williams Selfies in the Sun My eyelashes are vibrant. I’m driving. Skin-silky/satin. Blinking and laughing. Bitch don’t look at...

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Oct 1, 2018
Sundays are for Scalping
By: Jake Bailey Shaved to the scalp, I free my head of its adornments, electro-chemo littering the floor in white ...

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Oct 1, 2018
Fade Out
By: Gretchen Gales Humans grow gray, ladybugs orange. One takes its last flight around my night side table lamp, cracked window...

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Oct 1, 2018
The Classroom of Great Currents
By: Allen Guest The bugle call of thunder, the cannon flash of lightening, and a line of rain charges up these summer slopes like...

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Oct 1, 2018
flash photography; lockjaw
By: Olivia Pierce flash photography here you are, woman the first moment of the way things were supposed to be painted canvas backdrop...

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Oct 1, 2018
Exodus
By: Maggie Dillow He towed his feet, like dead bunnies, slightly, on a still day. He never tripped. He never quit smoking. He never...

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Oct 1, 2018
Honeybees Can Be Trained to Locate Landmines with an Accuracy of Better than 97.5%
By: Terry Bodine Which jars hardest—your swarm of expletives, or the flat of the broom—as I sweep the knot of bees from low porch eaves...

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Oct 1, 2018
All Around Us
By: John Miller All around us, near-misses all morning – a parked stranger’s car kisses our rear bumper; across an intersection an...

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Oct 1, 2018
Afternoon at an Aesthetic Clinic
By: Jessica Tan We will help you lose ten pounds and get your honey back. We’ll break bones and stick plastic glue. We’ll give you pink...

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Oct 1, 2018
El Viaje—The Journey—Transition
By: Elder Gideon …Ay que destino, How destiny para ponerse a llorar can make one weep ...

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Oct 1, 2018
All these things traveling through me still don’t bring me to you
By: Cristina del Canto thorpe, england – 2001 Your love was like a train, rattling down my lonesome tracks, always homeward-bound. One,...

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Oct 1, 2018
A Beginner’s Guide to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
By: Leigh Holland Fifty years of French comics blocked into sugar cubes, space opera, box office flop, big-budget, flawed ponderous...

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Sep 1, 2018
A Curious Yellow House… ; While Reading Page Six…
By: Eric Pierzchala A Curious Yellow House, With These Tiny Made-in-America Windows, and No Apparent Front Door: At 1406 West Sumer...

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Sep 1, 2018
A Small Book Of Cacti
By: Jacqueline McGinnis-Feazle Maiheunia, living alone on your mountain, You will know your knife is sharp when it Held between thumb and...

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Sep 1, 2018
Agoraphobia & The Fear Of Light; Not As Easy As It Looks
By: D.R. Shipp Agoraphobia & The Fear Of Light A matter of science and chance: as the sky falls, love rises. All the fears that make you...

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Sep 1, 2018
amerika lysistrata
By: Avi-Yona Israel this hair is braided, long my spin on my opposite without it I am seen and with it I am touched without my consent...

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Sep 1, 2018
An Evening Chill
By: Babitha Marina Justin The sun sets in an orange pallor blinding traffic lights. A bronzed lake steps into my autumn, a gentle winter...

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Sep 1, 2018
Birthday Wishes
By: Stuart M. Terman Driving east this afternoon to visit. We last hugged at the Cedar-Green BP station. Arrived simultaneously,...

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Sep 1, 2018
Campfire
By: Josephine Pino Blue base and feathered gold light sprouting agave violent flames toss pent up heat My cheeks catch hot and flush...

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Sep 1, 2018
Daughter Of Moscow
By: Mark Gordon She is a daughter of Moscow, the cathedrals, the squares. She is a vein of marble in one of its statues, a fuchsia streak...

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Sep 1, 2018
Debrief; Etymology
By: Alene Terzian Debrief Did you stand on a chair, a stool, a footrest? Did you kick it away and think, oh shit? Did you slip, steel...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Sep 1, 2018
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