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By: Paul Rousseau “A real experience of death isolates one absolutely. The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.” Iris...

By: Henry Cherry Things I Felt in Algorithms I felt the ardor traction ray bemoaning felt beams of light. Twelve noon for a bus token in...

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By: John Paul Caponigro Struck Reopen a forest in its tomb to pinch a blood-dipped stick then raise it up high, cock it with wrist,...

By: Esther Sadoff scoops out the center until its flesh pales to white. Later sips the cool liquid from the rind. She eats cherries by...

By: Katy Shedlock It seems that Russia will invade Ukraine and so I feel I should get my hair cut sit in Anastasia's chair at the cheap...

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By: Adam Day Not simply glances, tongue slips, implicit evaluations, stances, “misunderstandings” are the existence evidence which should...

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By: Jasper Glen Activate your ‘bliss molecule’ An event that induced a blissful feeling: executing the birth of a child; a flawless...

By: Rita Malenczyk for Mike Cole When I saw your note under the beer can I thought Wait, what the hell, who has been here Because I’d...

By: Linda Mcquarrie-Bowerman In a house ransacked by chaotic domesticity, we babysit my sister's grandsons. Childless, I excel with a...

By: Patrick Sylvain The Magician’s Arrival The magician arrives like a hurricane, thrashing dwellings with a ghastly piquancy. The doors...

By: Dick Altman Wildfire’s Song/ Day 47 Northern New Mexico If a month-and-a-half of smoke could speak – it would sing to me of a million...

By: Chey Danforth a poem for those who hide themselves in bodies that are already dead if silence is blood/ desecrate me/ drink the...

By: RC deWinter Idling As I sit in the tawdry tail end of summer // sweaty // hair uncombed // bare feet stained with dust // I twist my...

By: Benjamin J. Kirby Today I heard a train whistle blow in a town a hundred miles from tracks Standing at the edge of a forgotten forge...

By: Russell Willis “Flapping” won’t suffice for the sound of scores of Grackles fleeing from over there behind those trees to somewhere...

By: Matt Schur It was Monday. Jesus stretched on the sunny steps awaiting glad tidings of great joy. Bob Marley’s little birds wailed...

By: Patrick Moran Nora Roberts Interview—Claire E. White 2021 Take us through a typical day in the life of Nora Roberts. My...