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Sartorial
By Sandrine Letellier this way yes this way the avalanche lifts up her arms for dramatic effect looking down at this territory of...
Sandrine Letellier
Aug 25, 20231 min read
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The Grapes Are Heavy on the Vine
By Emily Tee The year 2020 started with a torrential downpour. Our town was flooded, even made it onto the six o'clock news. The TV...
Emily Tee
Jun 27, 20231 min read
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Cleaning Up Too Soon
By Shikha S. Lamba You’ll be advised to scrape and scrub, and wipe down each messy conversation slammed against your walls. Each bursting...
Shikha S. Lamba
Apr 19, 20232 min read
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Corinthians Said
By Emoefeoghene Akpofure Imoyin-Omene Love keeps no record of wrong, yet I can’t help but remember everything. I remember the battle...
Emoefeoghene Akpofure Imoyin-Omene
Jan 18, 20233 min read
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Shtetl
By Monika Trotula Round like a Passover pancake, a watchful and silent moon has ascended over the rooftops, daunting dogs. Kaddish...
Monika Trotula
Dec 12, 20221 min read
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Usefulness
Ekphrastic Poem - Ancient Glass Vessels (Toledo Museum of Art, Glass Pavilion, shelves 4A3 and 4A7) By Kerry Trautman decide what each...
Kerry Trautman
Oct 17, 20221 min read
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Judgemental Elephant
By Trae Stewart I see you, Positioned on the dusty rose window seat, hidden among kawaii pillows and frilly curtains You stare, my...
Trae Stewart
Oct 9, 20221 min read
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Morgana; Microcosm
By Toti O'Brien Morgana In the sparkle of dawn, it shines cream and pink under timid sunbeams—like a promise. Istanbul, how long have I...
Toti O'Brien
Sep 4, 20222 min read
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A Cappella
By Laura Ferries I piece together these jigsaw words thread them together in broken verse spaghetti sentences spun around my tongue...
Laura Ferries
Aug 24, 20221 min read
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Empty Boxes; Looking Out at the Sea
By Kevin Coffield Empty Boxes Words, tempered by time, stated and restated like cheap wine gone bad, corner me, push me into spaces where...
Kevin Coffield
Jul 4, 20222 min read
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Naked Helium; Rural Memories
By Beverly M. Collins Naked Helium Someday, opinions held privately in the mind will float like balloons to be seen boldly by all as a...
Beverly M. Collins
May 22, 20222 min read
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Crystals Carry Topographies
By Sunil Sharma The snow glitters under a cold sun, the sheets of solid snow full of tiny crystals along the sides of the roads, each...
Sunil Sharma
May 11, 20221 min read
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Your Map
By Bethany Rivers (After Louise Gluck) Destinations are unclear and million-fold. I have to find ‘end’ on the map. It’s usually another...
Bethany Rivers
May 4, 20222 min read
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Moon Woman
By Becky Bei The patriarch sits on the emerald chair in the dining room bewildered, bemused, at the jokes shared among his children,...
Becky Bei
Apr 20, 20221 min read
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Mother Tongue; My Mother Speaks Odiya
By Nikita Parik Two poems from her newly published collection: Diacritics of Desire. Mother Tongue If you plan to rule over a people,...
Nikita Parik
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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Love and Science
By Duane Vorhees Wasn't it Einstein who gave precision to relativity? They say a life without love is a cataclysm. Why didn't Einstein...
Duane Vorhees
Apr 1, 20221 min read
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Nature vs Nurture; A Perfect Storm
By Jack Pascoe Nature vs Nurture When you're hearing the cry of the chromatic crew and your heart is hankering for something that's new....
Jack Pascoe
Mar 27, 20223 min read
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Cryptology; Recollection
Two poems from Balconies of Time (Hawakal, 2017) by Amit Shankar Saha Cryptology Two black boats float under your irises, like...
Amit Shankar Saha
Mar 12, 20221 min read
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A Ride with Time; Au Revoir
By Ratika Bhardwaj A Ride with Time Time, An inexorable chariot; Every receding second, A trailing memory; You blink, breathe, Strike a...
Ratika Bhardwaj
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Roots; Laying out the Poem
By Julie Sampson Roots Bracing Budleigh's coastal air this cold January day I read the notice fronting cliff rock-samphire canvas,...
Julie Sampson
Feb 24, 20222 min read
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