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C.N.P Poetry
Eclipse
By: Anne Jennings Paris i. Before It’s bloody, this moon, right before the eclipse, colored by the wildfires on a far off mountain,...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Sep 1, 2018
Gold
By: Peter Verbica Klimt ladles his figures in gold as if he were a gifted baker. He dips and drizzles and drenches them, like honey...

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Sep 1, 2018
Haiku, In Celebration Of Cherry Blossom, Sakura; Summer Heat
By: Clare Chu Haiku, In Celebration Of Cherry Blossom, Sakura Spring, full moon madness struck, the exquisitely calm people celebrate the...

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Sep 1, 2018
Her rocks roll from the sack; The secret of your photograph
By: Ron Pullins Her rocks roll from the sack Her rocks roll from the sack — A paper bag — Roll across the table. Light as wind bounce...

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Sep 1, 2018
I come to you unrehearsed
By: Nicole Zdeb I come to you in the hour before day begins across roads and ranges that night early left following the imprint of...

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Sep 1, 2018
Look Up
By: Erich Sysak In the city of silks you find a glass key on a ledge where rainwater drips from the clanking subway above. Here you look...

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Sep 1, 2018
Magnetic Girl; Illuminated Manuscript; Ground Cherry Pods
By: Heather Derr-Smith Magnetic Girl I was a wonder. Propelling mountains like carp Into the sea, no match for me, all men trembled. I...

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Sep 1, 2018
N 36th & Fremont Ave
By: Jerico Lenk sunrise will soon bleed like watercolor and the trolls settle into dreams downtown under the bridge so, ...

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Sep 1, 2018
Ode To Bipolar
By: B. Martin Gibbons Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride… — Lord Byron (Mania) To you I owe the...

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Sep 1, 2018
Old Schoolboy, Old Suite
By: Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah No, not you, not even you keeping a distance between our past & future by adding a yard to the yacht, hands...

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Sep 1, 2018
Over and Under: Approaches to Hyperbole and Understatement in Poetry
By: Amie Sharp A few years ago, the global mega-hit Titanic was re-released in 3D. I like to think of that late 20th century film, with...

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Sep 1, 2018
Passing As Whites
By: Gerard Sarnat i. Mea Culpas, Mea Shearim Beginning to understand I began writing to understand what wasn’t understood, wouldn’t it...

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Sep 1, 2018
sleeping dragons
By: Gavin Yates look which sleeping dragons, sleep states here. rapid voltage: all camera. flicker at high-frequency. say your genius is...

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Sep 1, 2018
That Fall; Because I Wish To Avoid Extravagant Claims…
By: Greg Rappleye That Fall CATHLEEN (begins to keen). It’s destroyed we are from this day. It’s destroyed, surely. -John Millington...

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Sep 1, 2018
The Canfea Stone Circle Complains
By: John Francis Istel The Canfea circle consists of 11 stones, 9 of which are still upright, just outside the village of Ardgroom, on...

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Sep 1, 2018
The Head Evolves Behind The Eyes
By: James Grabill The human head isn’t hard to find, unless you’re looking down. It’s never finished making its appearance, always in...

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Sep 1, 2018
Theo; Precipice
By: Kelly "Native Child" Mays Theo (an open letter from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo after death) Shall we suffer for art? find...

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Sep 1, 2018
Toe Tappin’
By: Michael B. Carroll Jr. Heel-to-toe, he taps to the harmonics of reverberating bounces and swish-swooshing tempos, and to the...

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Sep 1, 2018
Whitman In Canada; Caesura
By: Robert Krantz Whitman in Canada Our dying didn’t matter to many, silence of our song becoming a palate for adolescent chortles and...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Sep 1, 2018
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