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Haunts
Our denial and patience have reached their limit. We must do something about the ghosts. Postings on them have gone through the roof....

James Fowler
Jul 19, 20243 min read


procreation
i want a word for that barefooted breathing when god sprouts out of the ground next to me in a color that only exists in may, a verb for...

Rowan Tate
Jul 19, 20241 min read


Creation
The god reaches down with sinewy arms like tender vines they curl around the bite-sized human He knits a garment out of honey and...

Amanda C
May 17, 20241 min read


Birds
I work long into the night making the birds, sewing the slender feathers with fine thread, knitting the tiny hearts, the miniature lungs....

Jill Jepson
May 17, 20242 min read


Midnight Show
It is difficult to pinpoint when my insomnia started. I remember fitful sleep, filled with agitated dreams of clanking noises and foul...

Jonathan Mitchell
May 17, 202411 min read


Car Jammed
I raise my infant son and daughter, onto the barrier. We look out on a sea of chrome, southbound only, flickering into the distance. For...

Andrew Kolarik
May 17, 20242 min read


Inheritance
Ingram slogged through the downpour to watch the execution of the hex. His calloused fingers were wrapped around the tight straps of his...

Thomas De Moor
May 17, 202411 min read


Theurgy and magnetic sphere
There is a guiding light. A path towards a healthier and more compassionate self. It is a star self, a light held together by its own...

Mitchell Pluto
May 17, 20241 min read


Senior Moment
Thinly veiled moon plays peek-a-boo between clouds; shadows dance and disappear. Trepidatiously at first, then emboldened smelling gifts...

Rick Hartwell
May 17, 20241 min read


The Glass Needle
You look thin! Katia jolted up in bed, clutching her mottled blanket. Saucer-eyed, her gaze turned to the open bedroom door, a black...

Steven Kay
May 17, 202410 min read


The Emerald Tablet: A Cut-up Poem
The holy speech, that which is Divine Spirit, the embodied Logos, is immortal. All of nature in paragraph, as indeed the secret song of...

C.J. Lane
May 17, 20241 min read


in the equipoise
No way to wander away from self-meditative glow: home sweet home where path/arrival has no where to go : mating unseen & beholding in the...

Ken Goodman
May 17, 20241 min read


Ingesting the Flood
You tend to wrap sun rays around your throat, death by strangulation of morning promises. You tend to fill your cup with clouds, or sugar...

Sloan Porter
May 17, 20241 min read


Lidérc
The two holy men traveled by day, each of them on their own mule, riding slowly through the grass, until they came to the cabin in the...

Zary Fekete
May 17, 202414 min read


Midwinter Cold
It was the cold that dragged Abigail down first. People thought you wore cold like a blanket, wrapped around your shoulders and chilling...

Anne Woods
May 17, 20246 min read


Balance
Life is tenuous, beautiful and brittle, yet never cowers in the presence of death. It lives within chaos and substance; the harrowing and...

Benjamin Parker
May 17, 20241 min read


Polaroid in South Light
Christened by the black pulp of a young vine berry, I hold my home in the creek bed’s westward bend Where the Polaroid flash of fireflies...

Evan Burkin
May 17, 20241 min read


Regodless
Everyone is called here once in their life. Some die on the journey; rarely will a person die before the feeling consumes them: the...

James C. Bassett
Mar 15, 20244 min read


Awake
My back breaks, a few vertebrae from the bottom. Arms go knuckles fuse legs snap my blood is now sap. Limbs expand up and out leaves...

Zachary Dein Reisch
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Schadenfreude
I, too, have been in the underworld like Odysseus, and shall be there often yet … -  Friedrich Nietzsche Tripping into court Morality...

Craig Kirchner
Mar 15, 20242 min read
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