Untitled Poem by Simon Perchik
Untitled To keep from being lost forever you sift the way this dirt is shared though each morning hides another stone that has no room...
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Nadia Giordana
- Jul 11, 2018
- 2 min
Try Your Hand at Sijo
Try Your Hand at Sijo By Nadia Giordana I mostly write free verse, but when winter drags on for me, I sometimes pass the time writing...
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Adrian Slonaker
- Jul 8, 2018
- 1 min
The Wrapper
The Wrapper Just after dusk on Duckworth it lay helpless, rapaciously ripped open on chilled pavement as self-absorbed pedestrians...
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Dr. P.C. Sheponik
- Jul 5, 2018
- 1 min
Cardinal in a Sycamore Tree
Cardinal in a Sycamore Tree A cardinal landed on a sycamore branch, a dream of feathers the color of blood, sat there amid the...
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Paul Rondema
- Jul 1, 2018
- 1 min
Lighter Days
Lighter Days Underneath a full moon, with your eyes of blue, You reach out with every tear that falls, And I would hold you until this...
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Adrian Slonaker
- Jun 29, 2018
- 1 min
"...and many more"
“...and many more” At 10:32 on the morning of his 46th birthday he woke up after five hours and twelve minutes of unsatisfying slumber to...
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Nikki Abramson
- Jun 26, 2018
- 2 min
Living With Dystonia
Living with Dystonia I began the day by trying to wake up. My body says no. It doesn’t want to wake up. Another 10 minutes of sleep?...
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Joseph S. Pete
- Jun 23, 2018
- 1 min
Holiday Gift Guide
Holiday Gift Guide Fudge it, just stroll into the fluorescent wash of an anodyne Walgreens. Head straight to the gift card rack. Behold...
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Kathryn Holmes
- Jun 18, 2018
- 1 min
Don't Ya Just Wish
Don’t Ya Just Wish? With iPods and tripods Gigabits and sound bites Don’t ya just wish You could listen To the waves splashing on your...
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Brett Cortelletti
- Jun 15, 2018
- 1 min
Bacchus Goes to AA
Bacchus Goes to AA The first three of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our...
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Shawn Nacona Stroud
- Jun 13, 2018
- 1 min
1432 South Limestone Street
1432 South Limestone Street The whoosh of traffic shifts to the ringing silence of indifference. I surrender it along with reality, step...
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John Grey
- Jun 12, 2018
- 1 min
Get the Message
Get the Message I must resist the singer's message. Young girls, virgins some of them, hanging out backstage, just waiting for his hands...
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William Waters
- Jun 9, 2018
- 1 min
An Old Love Song
An Old Love Song No apologies. I'm crying again. The time is here and I am now, but the past hangs 'round my head like an unfinished...
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Stephanie Sorensen
- Jun 6, 2018
- 1 min
Doula
Doula We dance when the world is asleep Down long corridors, Hallways by moonlight. The full moon our only witness To this soundless...
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Chris Blake
- May 30, 2018
- 1 min
Just Because
Just Because Just because she felt ancient Didn’t mean he was hesitant To cradle the opulent weight Of her glowing breasts Settling like...
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Changming Yuan
- May 23, 2018
- 1 min
Directional Denotations
Directional Denotations South: not unlike a raindrop on a small lotus leaf unable to find the spot to settle itself down in an early...
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Tess Galati
- May 16, 2018
- 1 min
The Artist at Her Work
The Artist at Her Work An iron chain fastened one end to post the other to capuchin monkey who simulates her descendant Gertrude Stein...
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Teresa Foushee
- Apr 19, 2018
- 1 min
It's Gonna Be Alright
It’s Gonna Be Alright Well, it seems like one of those days Where nuthin’ is goin’ your way And life is just not working out You say you...
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Cole W. Williams
- Apr 16, 2018
- 1 min
Mulching Series
MULCHING SERIES An Observation on Our Need to Control Our Lawns to mulch 1 mulching to assume all is well below and no weeds persist to...
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