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Category: Poetry

She Still Stands

January 8, 2019January 19, 2019 Margie B. Klein

Stalwart she stands, Vestige of an age-old battle. Despite upheaval and storm, She can’t be kept down. The jealous threw rocks in her path, Easily seen and sidestepped. Haters threw stones at her, They reverberated back to them. They made pits for her to fall in, She leapt them with Read more

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Good Girl

January 5, 2019March 11, 2019 Julie Anderson

Go ahead mark me with your stain, claim me as your own Boisterous bravado, you think you have it made. I am a good girl, never would my heart betray the hand that strokes me. I am a good girl, here— see my new lacy knickers? They were bought just Read more

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Rumi Lovers

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 Christina Strigas

He can move in and out of her as Rumi lovers do, the type of lover who knows your body before he touches, the sort that knows everything by asking. The one to please, send you off with prayers give you god pleasure, madly make sex turn to love. Turn Read more

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Mother

January 3, 2019January 6, 2019 M. Anne Sweet

I am what she once was She empties her hand in mine grips the buzzing bee hip and knee replaced the bone cup that birthed us broken this bone cradle fails her eighty years spent in its hammock bruises surface yellow and brown A rat terrier snaps at my leg Read more

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The Cacti of Your Memories

January 3, 2019January 19, 2019 F.K. Jadoon

I walk amid paths strewn with cacti of your memories. Which stay still, strong, silent. But there. In my path. So that if i want to go forward, I have to go through them. But when I try do that, I get pierced by their sharp pointy thorns. It is Read more

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Downfall

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 Tianna G. Hansen

begin to constantly wear your disguise crown of thorns dipped in red, dangling above your head. no trace of purity or sacrifice. your name will only be shunned woven together with life’s thread but happier — apart — and every time you try to achieve the past slips through fingers Read more

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All At Once

December 23, 2018December 23, 2018 Victoria Addesso

It was winter. The boy…young man…child… (he was all at once) sat on the frozen ground in the middle of the football field looking up at the clear night sky. Black-blue background dotted with the white pinprick specks of stars. The moon was gibbous, waxing. The boy lifted his right Read more

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DRIFTWOOD AND BONE

December 21, 2018January 19, 2019 Alexandra Meehan

bursts of summer and yellow-eyed butterflies and a chiseled sculpture, worn down, flat like a stiff tuxedo cuff, risen and engraved in the hearth of hard dirt wetted by rain with wood stumps like starfish be dazzling grey roses, dried and wrapped in baby thorn coats winding round drooping oak Read more

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