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Revel The new year approaches, celebration for planting completely neglected in a meaningless party that reaches its apex in the drunken...
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Stacey Chambers
- Oct 21, 2018
- 1 min
Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love Unconditional love begins with me. It begins when I can look in the mirror and say these things to myself and not run....
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Rick Blum
- Oct 6, 2018
- 1 min
Not-A-Poet's Lament
Not-a-Poet’s Lament I am not a poet. Contemplating inner turmoil; searching for incontrovertible truths; cloaking observations of mundane...
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Joseph S. Pete
- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
Old Town
Old Town In Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, under the iron-wrought arches, I accompanied my sullen father to the dark improv theater,...
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Teresa Riggs Foushee
- Sep 30, 2018
- 1 min
The Last Fifteen Seconds
The Last Fifteen Seconds I can do anything for Fifteen Seconds Holy Crap, this is hard! I can do anything What was I thinking? Ten Hold...
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Yuan Changming
- Sep 27, 2018
- 1 min
Making Light of Darkness
Making Light of Darkness in a world always half in darkness your body may be soaked deep in a nightmare, rotting but your heart can roam...
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Gale Acuff
- Aug 26, 2018
- 1 min
And I Will Dwell in the House of the Lord Forever
And I Will Dwell in the House of the Lord Forever Miss Hooker says that before I know it I'll be dead, God could take me at any time....
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Paul Lojeski
- Aug 23, 2018
- 1 min
Roses in Arizona
Roses in Arizona Sam loved his red, red roses, tending them in the desert heat by the side of the house. He’d stand for hours, watching,...
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George Freek
- Aug 19, 2018
- 1 min
The Dead of Night (After Tu Fu)
THE DEAD OF NIGHT (After Tu Fu) Mornings, I used to run. Now I sleep instead. Nights, I sit alone, and think of the past. When my wife...
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Craig Evenson
- Aug 16, 2018
- 1 min
The Sun and Snow
The Sun and Snow I like to see things getting along. Right now they are quietly playing, untroubled as children in pictures by the sure...
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Gerry Sasse
- Aug 13, 2018
- 1 min
Don't Breathe
Don’t Breathe As my father tossed my blanket over me in my bottom bunk in the middle of the night discarded as an empty can on the...
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Kyle Newman
- Aug 10, 2018
- 1 min
Trypophobia
Trypophobia The hope is to have done enough that one day researchers petition the court to exhume my body if only to see how drugs...
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Connie Anderson
- Aug 7, 2018
- 1 min
The Window Seat
The Window Seat Our arms touched ever so lightly from close and forced sharing. I shut my eyes as a protective curtain, shuttering my...
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Gary Beck
- Aug 4, 2018
- 1 min
Tribulations
Tribulations Miss Liberty stands proudly in New York harbor once a symbol of welcome to those needing a new life, now tired, aging,...
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Holly Day
- Aug 1, 2018
- 1 min
Along the Shore
Along the Shore We walk hand in hand between the concrete pilings, mindful Of broken beer bottles and the occasional raccoon-gnawed dead...
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Nancy Botta
- Jul 29, 2018
- 1 min
Oh My God, Shut Up, Susan
Oh My God, Shut Up, Susan Small talk about the holidays new year, new you maybe you'll go paleo— there's no way out of this room...
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Nadia Giordana
- Jul 26, 2018
- 1 min
Jellyfish
Jellyfish This is a Jellyfish. He’s angry but you can’t tell because jellyfish are incapable of expressing emotion physically. Woe is he...
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- Jul 23, 2018
- 1 min
Icicle Creek
Icicle Creek leaving town at last and running for the pass the radio ringing out “My Sweet Lord” and it’s forest service dust gravel...
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Teresa Riggs Foushee
- Jul 20, 2018
- 1 min
Call On Me
Call On Me Let in the Love and let go of the rest The time is now and we need only your best You walk into the wind You’ve got a...
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Craig Evenson
- Jul 17, 2018
- 1 min
Wondering
wondering if the boxes and shoes and litter of paper on the floor are metaphor or reflection of an idle mind reclining in its skull if...
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