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C.N.P Poetry
Falling Nowhere
By: Jacob Klein Gray fog coils around you. Heavy, weightless wisps churn the air you breath viscous. Shapes fade in and out of the...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Oct 1, 2019
The Remembering Time
By: Clif Mason When I was seven, I ran down the street with a live fish in my hand. I put it in a barrel of rainwater, where it lived all...

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Oct 1, 2019
lovecraft was a city boy; Ballad of Bull Creek
By: David van den Berg lovecraft was a city boy green eyed dreams of broken things / black crow croak / i heard rats in the walls by the...

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Oct 1, 2019
disposable; this place becomes an entry; more of the same
By: Brittany Rowell disposable this letter is a few lines daily: it seems this swallowed single mind is searching if only I could...

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Oct 1, 2019
Calico Koi
By: Paul Iasevoli boy koi My scales are coarse, my fins bristly, my touch indelicate, but you love me for all that. You wrap me in your...

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Oct 1, 2019
Morris Graves’ Summer Flowers For Denise, 1978; Wanting Your Every
By: Susan Kay Anderson Morris Graves’ Summer Flowers For Denise, 1978 The letter is grey velvet. There are seven words inside. A blue...

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Oct 1, 2019
The Railway; Tread Carefully, Johnny-come-lately; Terminus of a Migratory Route
By: Marilena Zackheos The Railway Master had first taken our brother in from the craftsmen streets where he begged to learn a trade, my...

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Oct 1, 2019
Poem to Bury in the Family Garden
By: Alec Montalvo My mother never told me about the stars I guess they didn’t matter instead she handed me a spoon and told me to dig I...

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Oct 1, 2019
Et Sorores
By: Caitlin Jackson Outside a village in the woods there is a pool where the women go to swim. They can talk here since, deep in the...

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Oct 1, 2019
Dead Birds of New Zealand; Dead Birds in the Shape of a Cleft Note; Spizella Arborea
By: Christian Czaniecki Dead Birds of New Zealand Take a moment to consider the rose bush as a colonial construct Adolescence as a...

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Oct 1, 2019
Creamery; Corpse Candles; Vernon
By: Christopher Watkins Creamery Train cars with large windows On small tracks Told industrial stories Of what the factories Did and...

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Oct 1, 2019
Fall Again; Before I Came to Know
By: Mallory Rodenberg Fall Again Finally, October with its alchemy that turns gold to death. When I walk at night to see the undressed...

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Oct 1, 2019
Ignis Sacer
By: John Chrostek Come, cherubim, to the proclamation of the angels, written in signal & current where once we...

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Oct 1, 2019
What The Balcony Is For
By: Jonce Marshall Palmer for Freddie I like to let the ash collect my sunset cherries far too much steel against these clouds...

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Oct 1, 2019
pseudo-horror poem in the morning; pseudo-horror poem at the ice cream parlor
By: Josh Anthony pseudo-horror poem in the morning in the morning glaze a batch of donuts wait and only when she sees them does the...

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Oct 1, 2019
ECSTASY MAY LEAD TO STANDING BOW
By: Anika Jhalani Good. Now this is where the grief begins. Retail is where the money is. Is your mala made of jade? Let’s do a group OM....

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Oct 1, 2019
Alexandra Kollontai; Lark; Rhys
By: Zoe Halse Alexandra Kollontai ‘But is she really in love with the revolution, or just the revolutionary?’ ‘I’m inclined to reorder...

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Oct 1, 2019
Surrealistic Circus
By: Lindsey Grant It is where I move along to the gallery of same-sex sandwiches Corridors of condiments and condemnation that entreat me...

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Oct 1, 2019
Love was
By: E. Alexandra a house, you didn’t trust, would not step foot in, could not breathe in, a sunken ship, caverns, you only just...

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Oct 1, 2019
Today Is; My Friend Emerson
By: Tomasz W. Wiszniewski Today Is the intoxication of shame, deep forest impaling my sternum, my pus’s hydraulics practising owl-eyed...

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Oct 1, 2019
“long way down w/ the ophelia brass band.”; “hacksaw w/ torch song.”; “not one of his bones shall be
By: Brandon Thomas DiSabatino “long way down w/ the ophelia brass band.” she is selling furniture while the house is on fire behind her...

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Oct 1, 2019
Spacetime
By: Alicia Sometimes curved space curved time expanse that hugs around mass a framework a lattice the...

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Sep 1, 2019
181110 an intruder takes me out of my slumber,; 181012 the neighbor's birch; 181009 the wheel
By: Zixiang Zhang 181110 an intruder takes me out of my slumber, leaves being wrinkled, aspens arrest the person of my interior, after...

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Sep 1, 2019
to the dispossessed, angelina
By: Keith Johnson to the dispossessed, angelina would you raise your white russian with hands whittled by decades fitting shift dresses...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Sep 1, 2019
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