Poetry

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Medusa Rides the Greyhound

By Kim Mannix
Everything is rain. / Ocean and land have flipped / for one another. Day's becoming night / and I swear I see a hydra swim up to my window. / He looks...
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Lip Point for Bearded Women

By Christine Sy
Board Meeting Minutes: Fiscal Moon, 2078, Skyrise /   / Hinky corporate suits toil / whisper fervent words / over glossy boardroom tables, / pray to politicians, shareholders / and two barely...
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Amber Alert

By Michael Fraser
This wavering sky and dust-up / leaf-slinging winds charcoaled as massed / crows chasing Tippi Hedren, or the /   / clawed rail line whir of cloud bellies / bearded with rain....

Goldenrod

By Rebecca Givens Rolland
These days, I lean into darkness: ten times / over, I sing madrigals, sign cards. Sweet times /   / find their vowels in birds’ wings, radial syntax / of carpus, metacarpus,...

Moose Factory – d-dechs tags

By Adam Davidson-Harden
you traced yourself in vivid green and blue / after southern cousins, streets, brick / made alive with tags,  / quiet illuminators of the  / bleaker corners / trash bins, rusted /...

blason de la poule

By David Alexander
her feet are two twig fingers grasping at grass / her legs support an ark that tips like a / theme park ride, frequently stuck /   / her feathers are packed...

I Used to Be White

By listen chen
like a white sail /   / luffing in the white wind /

Awake

By Caleb Harrison
1.    awake is how we leave /       our other selves /       asleep /   / 2.    a ship cleaves sea /       a wake...

Photographing Bushkill Creek

By Jean Free
I’m sitting on the bank where you once stood / to photograph the creek the way you would / have on a day like this. You’d go knee-deep / to get a...