1st Place Poetry Winner: magnum opus - Qiqing Goh
the families on tv screens will have you all believe like some gimmicky advertisement from the sixties that all mothers want their...
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- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
I Have to Search for My Aunt's Face - Karen Mandell
in the photos bundled in the back of the drawer. My mother's heart shaped face with wideset eyes leaps out at me in her group of...
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- Jul 13, 2022
- 2 min
REIMAGINING YOU - Rebecca Larivee
How to explain what I saw in you? My ego so tenuous in those lost, middle years, Everything sugarcoated, just to survive. You lived in a...
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- Jul 4, 2022
- 1 min
Perfection - Bev Fesharaki
The thrift shop is packed with treasures and I spy the Easter lilies… flat in a basket on the glass top of a lighted cabinet. They’ve...
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- Jun 29, 2022
- 1 min
“Beacon” - Marleny Averitt
She craved connection. To be in control and free of pain, God, she craved to belong. She prayed for release and summoned strength from...
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- Jun 23, 2022
- 1 min
Sonic Boom - Karen Mandell
In grade school we'd stare at the clock, the minute hand marching relentlessly, indifferent to our questions: How could a minute last so...
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- Jun 20, 2022
- 1 min
Hansel & Gretal - Emma Wells
Pear drops of happiness hang: are sugared lanterns of night dripping nectar sweetness - a honeybee’s glowing warmth awaits each...
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- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
The House on Southampton Drive - Oanh Nguyen
Just like our house in Saigon there is a table and a mirror by the front door. For a mirror facing the door would reflect all the good...
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- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min
The Morning After - Olivia Klein
I wake with frosted breath under an unfamiliar armpit. A foot I think is mine pretzels with Mystery Mans replaying last night’s memories...
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- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
hands dosed in melatonin - Ellie Wardman
the transcendence commences as the hands of my heart pull me closer within, a mother clutching her newborn baby. her fingers fighting...
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- Jun 6, 2022
- 2 min
Debridement - Christin Karr
It was the middle of a cold winter. My big bay horse, Atlas, blew out a breath when he saw me, fogging the air around his nose. My gloved...
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- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
Small But Heavy - Simone Liggins
Icon that clashes with current image for the masses, a mass of love and flesh and wisdom and power clasped between fingers of true...
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- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
Narrow Path No Longer - Christopher Girardi
The path stretches on and on, never seeming to end. All in sight are trees and remnants of ruin in a present I no longer recognize. Piles...
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- May 29, 2022
- 1 min
Cardinal - Kristin Howe
wander to the high chasm to where you hear it floating to where the great river border moves where winter is washing the old forest’s...
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- May 25, 2022
- 1 min
Trapped In The Mirror - Sarah L. Luther
Men don’t like an angry woman Women can be somewhat reflections of men And as women We must smile to reflect on the men that they’ve done...
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- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
frostbitten persimmons - Magdalena Harlow
today, a beautiful boy told me how he loves fruit. he smiles, as he describes to me how he digs his pearl shovels into its soft, pinkened...
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- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
Freihe(it) - Connie Louise Rigby
When (it) first came to me I was tentative and I felt I would be shouted at for having pure but wreckless fun I was nervous at every man...
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- May 13, 2022
- 1 min
The Picture - Megan Kiffiak
When I took the picture of my parents, I thought everything was fine. We were happy and we were a family. I guess I was wrong. A year...
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- May 11, 2022
- 1 min
“My Flower, My Flower” - Niko Eden
She moved her fingers Along shadowed curvature, Feeling the hollow strength Of such a stem. Her repleteness beguiled me With strength She...
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- May 9, 2022
- 1 min
To the Mountains - Eve Girzadas
In altitude, I awaken to still dark Yet August sheds nighttime with haste, Bathing in the reddening dawn as the earliest light Showers a...
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