These Hills tell the Story - Liliana Berumen
The night was cold over the Southwestern hills I miss holding his rings to imagine their labeled as mine but we learned of the lies from...
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Man’s Nature - A E Ryan
What happens when you remove a tribesman from his native clothing—leather, linen, silk? He begins to die and self-medicate with chemical...
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- Jan 28
- 1 min
pray/prey - Nico Bryan
I’ll rest right here, make shelter out of your sternum, etch a prayer on your ribs. I read it out loud, but all you hear is a howl....
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- Jan 25
- 1 min
I Fell. - Sophia Caselnova
Fall was always my favorite; Halloween, foliage, pumpkins. The crisp cool air that causes goose bumps, but doesn’t yet make you shiver....
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- Jan 19
- 1 min
I Got Out - Elaine Nadal
i’ve got a jam that’ll make you go tappin’ clappin’ whistlin’ stars and sunsets-- a sticky song a nightingale envies a refrain ringin’...
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- Jan 17
- 1 min
Blue Cotton Candy - Janelle Finamore
The day dissolves in my mouth like cotton candy finding it’s peaceful end Hesitant to believe that this never ending day would actually...
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- Jan 15
- 1 min
Marigold - Phoebe Brookes
Marigolds tied tightly together morning dew dripping from every petal. I picked them for the man on the corner whose needles lay...
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- Jan 11
- 1 min
The spring I turned thirty-five and took up running - Michael Favala Goldman
Cooper River Park, Cherry Hill, NJ for my mother I was standing with the river rats, everyone saying what state of marriage or divorce...
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- Jan 9
- 2 min
3rd Place Fall Poetry Winner Prometheus, Daughter of Immigrants - an. phan
I don’t think I have a motherland, just a strange monster in my imagination, stitched together with a Frankeinsteinian arrogance to...
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- Jan 7
- 4 min
2nd Place Fall Poetry Contest Winner: NINE TYPES OF SILENCE - Alison Davis
1. We all share the same reason for being here. The chairs are arranged in a circle. The doctor seats herself in one of them. The plastic...
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- Jan 5
- 2 min
1st Place Fall Poetry Winner: Saint Clément’s Drug Unit, 1969 - Jonathan Callies
After Mary Ellen Mark At the Alano Club, a child of seven, I remember my mother sharing with a group of strangers and family that the...
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- Jan 3
- 1 min
The Tale of a Fat Ugly Crow on a May Afternoon - Joanne Jagoda
In front of my living room window, on a splendid May afternoon, warm and sunny, a fat black crow rapturously caws over its good fortune....
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- Jan 1
- 1 min
When He Was Smiling - Emma Newman-Holden
You were never afraid of him when he was smiling How could you be? The curve of his lips, begging yours to curve as well The creases...
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- Dec 30, 2022
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I wish we were having dinner together right now - Padya Paramita
Like a knife sliding down a slab of butter that’s been sitting out in a counter on a hot day My brown eyes melt into your green. We hold...
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- Dec 21, 2022
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It’s a Full Cycle - Julien Griswold
Hold me, hold me, hold me like my laundry machine. My washer and my dryer and my mother who taught me how to fold sheets. They require...
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- Dec 17, 2022
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hiccups - Ayin Es
this morning I watched a crow on a telephone wire act strangely I’m pretty sure he had the hiccups there was no other explanation I...
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- Nov 24, 2022
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The person behind the counter - Swetha Amit
The grocery shop is packed with treasures and I spy on the box of goodies on the counter next to you they look delicious and tempting...
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- Nov 22, 2022
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A Question to the Tea Leaves - Ruth Towne
In the teacup, only a teaspoon of liquid remains, almost room temperature now. My left hand lifts the cup, my eyelids drop for a moment....
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- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
I Was Eight When We Met - Paula Praeger
One-hundredth birthday balloon suspended over her throne at her daughter’s dining room table laden with eats. Centenarian reigns. Talk,...
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- Nov 16, 2022
- 1 min
I am a contested territory - Julie Benesh
Was she pretty, poor, ugly, rich? Hard- working or lucky? Her 7s look like boarding school in Switzerland, but her...
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