The Last Day of Summer - Laura Plummer
The months between second and third grade are a lacuna in my memory, save for the final day. Its details flood me with cruel clarity,...
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- May 1, 2022
- 1 min
Leaving My Younger Self - Matilda Bray
Bury me With Slinky’s that intertwine Metallic twang No more Twilight purple and Fanta orange Dollar store Bury me with sticky jams In...
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- Apr 29, 2022
- 2 min
Provenance - Shannon Vesely
Why do you do this? my daughter asks. I’m wiping clean a piece of used aluminum foil, then folding it into a neat square to be stacked...
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- Apr 26, 2022
- 1 min
Leaving - Syd Shaw
I left in winter, ice clinging to my eyelashes, slammed the car door and drove to a cheap motel. I left my guitar behind, came back the...
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- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
KNIGHT WILL NEVER BE KING - Ariya Mamun
When the boy is on his knees for you, you will be the one who knights him. Slicing into his shoulders ever so slightly. Shallow cuts...
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- Apr 21, 2022
- 1 min
HORSESHOECRABS - Amanda Boyanowski-Morin
Seventh grade I learned of Virginia Woolf. A kindred - For I have always carried beach stones in my pocket. Small and smooth, never...
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 2 min
My Temple - Ty Franklin
You pass me a red cup full of soda and vodka Making sure that it never goes completely empty. The hum of the fluorescent lights beating...
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- Mar 26, 2022
- 1 min
what safe feels like - Kiera Obbard
when you grow up in chaos, you never really learn what safe feels like. the fear of your parents’ arguments the shame of leaving with...
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- Mar 24, 2022
- 1 min
This poem would be called ‘November’, if that weren’t cliche - Sylvia Foster
My mom is burning leaves and there is ink drying. The smoke is white this morning, and doesn’t stray from its column. Its smell is...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
The Crab - Sabrina Herrmann
Who am I? Who have I been? Who do I want to be? My name is Sabrina Herrmann my initials sound like ‘essay’ if you say them fast enough I...
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- Mar 16, 2022
- 3 min
Sometimes.... - Anthony Karen
People say I’m quiet and keep to myself, but when I try to share they only hear what they want to hear... or it becomes about them....
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- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
3rd Place Poetry Winner: All the men - Jose Varghese
who were to be my father-figures are dead. I witnessed their burials in the lands they thought they owned. They were the last to know of...
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- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
1st Place Poetry Winner: Meyer Lemon Tree - Robin Kinzer
In the days after we break up, I become obsessed with the idea of planting a lemon tree. I have been cautioned by all of my plant-loving...
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- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
2nd Place Poetry Winner: SOFT OPENING - Cassie Burkhardt
Snapping his fingers at the steaming cutlery before me the restaurant manager says, Dry this, one piece at a time until I can see my...
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- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
weather - Trevor Scott Barton
thunderstorm take my hand, lead me to your secret place, lift up your dress, let me take you from behind like a gust of wind from the sea...
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- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min
The Cat’s Shrine - Jeremiah Prenn
Buried in the sax chute Is the long orange cat whisking a bone temple vestigial bird pile humming his mind with another. Mister knows...
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- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
LUCK - Pam Impson
Clover carpet at my feet Curls between my naked toes Greener than an emerald Stolen from its earthy bed Pick and pluck Four leaves for...
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- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min
Conversion - Grace Wagner
Cramped quarters, all of us—packed in together, two to a small room. She wasn’t mine— I knew that. Not even my roommate, but still I...
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- Feb 28, 2022
- 1 min
Bad Debt - Sydney MacDonald
I’m hiding in an accounting metaphor. So here is my internal audit: I hastily finished the financial statements: Balance sheet, Income...
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- Feb 28, 2022
- 1 min
He suggests going huckleberry picking - A Cerisse Cohen
and you’re worried you’d pick something toxic. City girl: What do you know about plants? He knows a couple that foraged and ate wild...
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