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Being Her Shadow

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 Amber R. Dulaney

Always I am with her every step I tag along attempt to let her know she’s not alone but a smile does not greet me when I appear around her only a sadness I can’t reverse for her as I put on display the shapeshift of her body; limited are Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Friends + Family, PoetryAmber R. Dulaney, emotional health, mother, poetry6 Comments

Floating on Tires

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 Jerri Jerreat

I lost my shoes in Ecuador. But I lost Da’uud in the swamp. I remember how his long lashes blinked back dampness the day we were married, his borrowed clothes pressed, his hair too closely trimmed, everything scrubbed till it shone. His parents were quite pleased; my parents were too. Read more

Friends + Family, Short FictionJerri Jerreat, short story1 Comment

Prairie Sky

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Doug Hoekstra

In the morning She yawns and stretches With dancing eyes Repossesses Sunlight spilling Through a battered blind Diamond set And still in time Her legs unfold Intertwine The horizon lying Distant in the past As far as the soul can see She turns And burns And covers me Like a Read more

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Ménage à trois

September 29, 2019September 29, 2019 TAK Erzinger

My features, they betray me with their inside joke, my identity comprised of an awkward three-some. But when I’m drunk, so I’ve heard, the southern drawl spills out like molasses. I’ve lived my life as a chameleon, camouflaging into the background, hidden in someone else’s wild. I shake my hips Read more

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the chaos in my bed

September 28, 2019September 28, 2019 Katie Simpson

i’d much rather write a poem on my bed’s riot than the love triangle on my horizon (but i know what you’re eager to hear) floral pattern sheets become cartesian chaos: linear lines over my chest, quadratic parabolas echoing around my arms, the logarithmic curve slowly fading toward my pillow. Read more

Dating + Relationships, PoetryKatie Simpson, lust, poetry, relationshipsLeave a comment

Dark Carnival

September 28, 2019September 28, 2019 Elisabeth Horan

Don’t make me go not down there where tacks rule the floor donkey carcasses everywhere Not now. Not yet. haven’t finished my last punishment yet. Still plucking each hair off my body. For carnal sin, for decadence Please no. So dark. So lonely. I imagine scuttling crabs all around me. Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, PoetryElisabeth Horan, emotional health, poetry1 Comment

A Letter To My Child Not Yet Born

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 Julia Nusbaum

Dear Baby, I don’t know if you will ever be real, but here are some things I want to say to you. I’ve never really wanted a child. Well, that’s not true. You are wanted. But the idea of having a child—the need to have a child—has never been part Read more

Featured, Friends + Family, Women's Issues + AwarenessJulia Nusbaum, mother, parenting, society1 Comment

JOLENE

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Courtney LeBlanc

“And I could easily understand how you could take my man but you don’t know what he means to me.”–Dolly Parton, “Jolene” We were over by then, completely finished. We’d both been through the five stages of grief but I circled back to depression. You asked what you could do Read more

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