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By: Joseph Mills The Exit of the Bear We take our two-year-old daughter to The Nutcracker. She’s puzzled when it begins, asking “Why is...

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By: Rebecca Petchenik All there is is pink and pink and soft pink and just a little bit of heroin. Soft pink and pink like your soft pink...

By: Katherine Gaffney PUT A PIN IN YOUR COY Plum blushed to see you, dear. Just a moment, while I tease out my tuft of dainty and weep my...

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By: Ferris E Jones She never could keep a man, Drank jug wine at home, At the bar it was peppermint schnapps. Life strangled her,...

By: J.F. Merifield Through The Picture Frame greened & overexposed if this photograph is of remembrance let it travel waveless carried by...

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By: A. Pikovsky You. (in perpetuity) i wondered: when the sun peaks thru the trees do you feel the shadows rotate the earth, dancing...

By: Amanda Leal In the morning, I succumb to the idea that everything must remain as it was when my son left for his dad's house, the...

By: Keith Morris We are a part of this moment As we dance and lift and swirl and touch and I am a part of you and this and we (Blink) As...

By: Lawrence Bridges MEME TRICK The coat of snow above my brow marks, through clouds, my body's mountain. I hold it up with one hand like...

By: Paul Rousseau Check Email. Scroll Twitter. Feed the dog. Check email. Scroll Twitter. 2000 deaths. Listen for sirens. Drink two cups...

By: Zac Kline We say to children: Don’t do that or you’re going to get hurt. If you get hurt, you’ll have to go to the hospital. You...

By: Matthew Daley you took African American studies but don’t have to recount quotes from the texts on the syllabus and if she is...

By: Anthony Aguero His Name So I asked him to come over. I had been reading all day and Crying because none of the pages Said his name....

By: Angela Rebrec The Anti-Parable of God’s Field Notes After much thought and pencil chewing God scribbles an entry into His field...

By: Bruce Arlen Wasserman 66 The flakes emerged from rocks tumbled in winter avalanches that show in the salt of summer like yesterday’s...

By: Phoebe Greer The Cat’s Meow You live to desire, remember? Curious the orange deaf night, where sunlight dies Your dog dreams that...

By: L.R.Berger Sheila’s Marginalia After she died, the books that were her friends went home with her friends. I buckled mine into the...

By: Paul Willis (Pinus lambertiana) Sun in the top of a sugar pine, first taste of a May morning. Limbs reach out as if to touch the...