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C.N.P Poetry
Huldufólk
By: Emily Scudder This is not an advertised tour. Just an email, time, and place to meet, 60 króna handed over in cash. We have taken a...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Aug 1, 2020
in which i did not dance with you; For Sedna
By: Emma Eisler in which i did not dance with you the most common causes of death for domestic venus flytrap: -prodding the trap to open...

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Aug 1, 2020
the mortar of us
By: Mawi Sonna start by mixing too many wishes grind them under the pestle’s pressure crush holy thistle cinnamon and blood lily after...

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Aug 1, 2020
This Band of Night; The Dart Board; The After Summer
By: Celia Buckley This Band of Night From the other side of things I watched my friend graph himself against forgetting, in the...

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Aug 1, 2020
Sin & Sanctions
By: Zahra Tootonsab “Now, Iran's nurses—the majority of whom are women—are among those bearing the worst of the brunt of U.S. sanctions.”...

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Aug 1, 2020
June ninth; April thirteenth; June twelfth
By: Emily Rankin June ninth The size of it should become obvious. The hill, the mountain, those big emotional scenes making everyone seem...

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Aug 1, 2020
Heron; Coffee
By: James Constantine Hatzopoulos Heron What is the fate of my bow and six licks from my quiver? Wired heron. Twigs bridle her wings....

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Aug 1, 2020
Unrequited Easter; Water, Fire, Water; Interment
By: Caroline Rowe Unrequited Easter She knew it wasn’t going to come, like the package or the angel, the iced hibiscus tea the waitress...

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Aug 1, 2020
Some Lies for You; We kissed
By: Barbara Daniels Some Lies for You I don’t need green velvet. No candles, no wine. Just day closing so slowly it lasts forever, sun...

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Aug 1, 2020
Sometimes I Feel Like a Fraud; 20% of People...; Someone Says They’d Take a Bullet for You
By: Anthony Aguero Sometimes I Feel Like a Fraud During any horror movie in a theater I clamp my eyes shut And tell myself the noise will...

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Aug 1, 2020
Calle Encarnación Rosas; Each Day, Each Night, I Dream I Dream in Spanish
By: Tara Mesalik MacMahon Calle Encarnación Rosas My mother was my mother, but Abuelita was my mom. In the entrance, Princesa: bowls of...

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Aug 1, 2020
Redecoration
By: Maura Way My objet d'art flagellates himself. I am not amused. My sous chef brooks no fools, obviously. My sense of belonging lags...

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Aug 1, 2020
Passing the Ghost of John Berryman en route to the 4th floor of Martin Army Hospital
By: Adam Bender Everyone will know what floor I’m going to based on my sweaty, anxious appearance of a wild-eyed candy man lost in a...

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Aug 1, 2020
Plants That Are Not Lavender, or, Other Names For Lavender
By: Julia DaSilva 1. Lavender-cotton: (unrelated to either, but for the grey-green leaves) yellow flowers, for contrast, useless for...

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Jul 1, 2020
Over Drinks, I Offer My 21-Year-Old Self Some Unsolicited Advice; Small Talk; Just A Phase
By: Ed Doerr Over Drinks, I Offer My 21-Year-Old Self Some Unsolicited Advice Keep holding grief in your mouth, you’ll poison flavor....

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Jul 1, 2020
The Hollow in Downey, Idaho
By: Austin Newton I used to hug my father from behind while he steered a red four-wheeler through a craggy hollow near my grandmother's...

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Jul 1, 2020
House of Sleep
By: Mark Blackford I have built around this house a fence of chain-link dreamcatchers & still, we wake to find bolt cutters at the base...

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Jul 1, 2020
April Aubade; Focus Objects; LOVINGKINDNESS
By: Anthony Warnke April Aubade Light blues, dog energy. Spring came on like strep. I ordered you a Lyft, disabled my alarm, and took in...

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Jul 1, 2020
9 to 5 Ghazal
By: Steve Barichko going forward please advise using the most recent email in the chain instead of hiding in the handicap stall with a...

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Jul 1, 2020
the doctor put a “Mr.” on that kid’s name
By: D.S. Randol Reconciling with the little rhino-eyed boy / snoring after sniffling sitting just behind me / who / didn't say -- a word...

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Jul 1, 2020
Mirroring
By: Sasha Torchinsky I only want the world to end when i’m done with it. Often i stare into the ocean; o to be so fluid you can hold...

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Jul 1, 2020
French Press; Reflections; It is
By: George Burns French Press The first drops of the next storm spot the sidewalk in front of the coffee house. I wait for the grounds of...

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Jul 1, 2020
beached; soup; past tense
By: Irene Cooper beached we go to the shore and there is some evidence of us. we are ocean stripped to two open bodies, our organs...

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Jul 1, 2020
A Dozen Lip Hugs; I Watch My Mother Play; Once I dreamed—
By: Dale Champlin A Dozen Lip Hugs I rest my lips against the soufflé of you, offer my warm fur as a mother mammal to your blue-eyed...

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Jul 1, 2020
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