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C.N.P Poetry
Where I Am
By: Kendall Queen On your living room floor alone again, the sunlight carries specks of dust; the flow of time made visual. Last night I...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Nov 1, 2018
WHEN I SAY MY BOYFRIEND REMINDS ME OF MY FATHER
By: Coral Kendall I mean that I am searching for dad’s scent in someone else’s clothes When I say my boyfriend reminds me of my father I...

Cathexis Northwest Press
Nov 1, 2018
A Sublunary Tone; Other-Lunary Waters; Localized Necrotic
By: Jonathan Pierce A Sublunary Tone To forgive a debt. Water. Releases. Opens catchment to A punctuation. Maybe mineral, at slightest: A...

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Nov 1, 2018
Baile De Magos
By: Tor Strand This world is loss and your grin the angle of the horizon so tell me what you saw in the sky lying there like a sheet of...

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Nov 1, 2018
Life Was One Long Day Spent With You
By: Daniel Talamantes You snapped the ring of my orbit, yet were too smart to pick me up or drag me along. See it’s been hours since...

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Nov 1, 2018
Florence; Kafka Holding Three Tulips
By: Charles Kell Florence The weather carves my nose into a helixed black hole. I drink wine, watch the sapphire wire coil to strike. The...

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Nov 1, 2018
Litany in the Locrian Mode
By: Daniel Jenkins The arthritic dog sleeping upside down, paws dream-wincing— Black-caked ashtrays and cigarette smoke— The back deck....

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Nov 1, 2018
पशुपतिनाथ
By: Vinít Kurup Oh Lord शिव you are said to have been the first आधी गुरु I stare at angry foreigners wearing “I Yoga” bracelets unable...

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Nov 1, 2018
Aubade with Smoke; Dilated; What a Patriot Dreams
By: Stephanie L. Harper Aubade with Smoke That i left my window opened last night, letting in wildfire smoke as i drifted off to the...

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Nov 1, 2018
for Ana Mendieta.
By: Audrey Lewis i. the weight of your body pressed against the earth is nine point eight one meters per second squared. ii. one day in...

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Nov 1, 2018
HOME ADDRESS; PARTY GIRL
By: Jaclyn Desforges HOME ADDRESS I know you, he says, and he’s wrong. Somewhere inside her there is a forest and in the forest there is...

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Nov 1, 2018
Where Shoreline as a Means of Stability; So What Else Is There…; To Wander Where Once We Thrived
By: Montana Svoboda Where Shoreline as a Means of Stability Left, then right again against a darkness that boils into parchment,...

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Nov 1, 2018
girls
By: Joanna Kurimsky i. the thing about women and clubbing is the thing about dancing in a circle the fire is where everything starts the...

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Nov 1, 2018
My Dentist’s Take On Brett Kavanaugh
By: Brittany Leitner With his hands in my mouth he simulates what happened to her this involved men, so we were talking about it he says,...

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Nov 1, 2018
The City
By: Courtney Camden The answer used to be as simple as Amtrak, first class. Scattered rats, rainy nights. An ease to the escape that...

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Nov 1, 2018
I am remembered as Lot’s wife
By: Josie Levin but before my Marriage, i was the Daughter of Sodom and Gomorrah did i know what it was to Fall? before my children...

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Nov 1, 2018
WELCOME; THE DRINK; BONE
By: Erich von Hungen WELCOME The hotel sheets will be replaced, the beds remade, the pillows fluffed out and re-laid. The scent of love...

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Nov 1, 2018
Illumination; For a While
By: Raymond Byrnes Illumination Yesterday, the sycamore’s twisted grey branches soaked in stale dishwater sky. Today, in deep blue...

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Nov 1, 2018
Footsteps In The Rain
By: Dana Xedos I turn and look at barren mountain spaces. Dirt and rock appear as snow on higher Elevations. Working hard erases Loss and...

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Nov 1, 2018
All Those Other Times
By: Ohan Hominis A group of men sit in a room, each see a different group of men, none see themselves as they are seen, but the room is...

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Nov 1, 2018
Book Review: Arminé Iknadossian’s All That Wasted Fruit
By: Alexandra Umlas Arminé Iknadossian’s mother would gather olives from the trees that grew just outside of her daughter’s high school;...

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Nov 1, 2018
Over the Edge (Homage to William Stafford)
By: Alison Jennings Traveling through the dark dawn hours, we were ardent, young, and carefree, careering out of town in a beat-up step...

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Nov 1, 2018
A letter to my 8-year-old self
By: Tara Jean I love your patched up jeans, I love your cow-licked hair, your sleepy eyes- kept awake by the bad dreams. I love the...

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Nov 1, 2018
Awareness; Museum Day
By: Collin Van Son Awareness The telephone timber line spites the fall of dying leaflets—Missing: White Male Pomeranian—three-holed...

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Nov 1, 2018
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