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Category: Poetry

Happy Birthday

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 Jacquie Prebich

danced out of my mother’s womb naked cold cocooned in the afterbirth of art cord snip cut cries turned to screams soul activated why why why oh how, the harsh lights hurt this was the house I was assigned to difficult damn difficult the odd child with tangled hair pretty, Read more

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36G

January 31, 2022February 2, 2022 Christina Strigas

Living with them can be mostly a drag. I got them in Grade 10, a curse from Aphrodite. I got them gift-wrapped under cotton shirts, cotton bras,  wonder  bras thirty dollar bras, now 130 bare necessity bras, with black lace, purple flowers, a life of heaviness. I got cysts, I Read more

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FRIDA

January 23, 2022January 24, 2022 Anne Whitehouse

“Love the earth and sun and the animals… And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” –Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass   The address the woman at the market gave her led to a stone house with a wooden door on a rubbish-strewn street in Mexico City. Read more

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Other Lies

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 C. Streetlights

Emotion so vibrant its colors laugh. Passionate whispers carry through the wind only to shudder instead on leaves with anticipation. The night falls silent and stars hold their breath. Broken dreams gather on the dark side of the moon. Standing still, Time holds its breath waiting while I trace the Read more

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Muse’s Message

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Paula R. Hilton

I am distant memory rising. Earthworm aerating compost in your dreams. A tunnel, torchlit. The way out, or in. The hand you squeeze for comfort. The hand that slaps your face. Your relentless race, never-ending chase. A glass of ice water in Arizona in July. I am not a lie. Read more

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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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