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The Bus Ride

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Judith Staff

Evening afoot she waits at the stop. Mind elsewhere, on her day, or merely tired, distant. Boarding the empty bus, relieved for warmth, quiet. Town’s edge – but what is happening? Where are you going? She demands, nearly screaming now, You should have turned back there! The bus lurches down Read more

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Barely Visible

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Julie Anderson

trembling layers of authentic spirit refused fissures of disassociation spiders web stuck to the base of the soul sensitive thoughts pushed to the side in favor of our mother’s motto be good, clean and kind educated in the ways of humanity exploring delight gorging on fleshy highs what is right, Read more

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Surviving a suicide with my help

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Elisabeth Horan

Forever is exhausting. Andrew is never gone… Just like we are never over Not that we are the same, and yet We are something like forever. Alive. Or dead. Does it even matter? What we do, even when in shadows. Is anyone really, ever, listening? I touch your chin as Read more

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An Apology for Indecision

November 30, 2021December 5, 2021 Christina Collins

On a warm summer evening in 2008, my mother asked me why I hadn’t killed myself yet. We were on a bridge just around the corner from home, on the enigmatically named Wigley Bush Lane, staring down together at the A12. I was twenty-four years old. I had completed my Read more

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truth & lie

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Anne Leigh Parrish

moss clings to branches like whispers feather hope thirty, forty feet up? far enough to cramp the neck yellow-green & tinged with blue airy & light in the warming breeze teasing about the season just now gone delicious to the eye but to the skin gives a scratch nothing soft Read more

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Jazz

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 Doug Hoekstra

When I got divorced I realized early on that I had to look at What I was gaining as opposed to What I was losing When I did, I found much to consider With all due respect Because this is the nature of the universe A place beyond words Invented Read more

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Murmurations Inside and Outside

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Kashiana Singh

inside an echo makes home silent murmurations are octopusessed in my veins burn frozen frescos, tattoos into my heart, an unleashed fear smirks en masse, a rogue writhing vermin slithering through my veins into the chambers of my heart, caged outside an autumn in twilight sky shimmers bright extravagant shadows Read more

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Departure

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Julie Anderson

his life is fleeting his spirit walking away cricket cries break through the veil of his eternal night each timid step he makes on brittle bones glued together with a poisonous elixir that drips and overflows pooling around his icicle grey eyes it strips away his beauty one strand of Read more

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