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ADIEU
The most memorable are the finals, my father on a morphine drip, burying my first dog, Sporty. According to Oxford, "goodbye" is...

Craig Kirchner
Jul 19, 20242 min read


Snail Vigil
Now that I have tucked you —cracked and broken, body soft— into the damp dark earth in May, the rain loosening the soil and bringing up...

Katherine Olsen
Jul 19, 20241 min read


Is
Perhaps god of time is a misnomer and god is time the correct alternative since the former indicates removal from the preposition’s...

John Zedolik
Jul 19, 20241 min read


i tell god i want to write a poem entitled rubato that ends with a dying sound
when god made me he was singing and i am finishing the song—the way birds unfeather themselves into kaleidoscopic color, cosmos creating...

Rowan Tate
Jul 19, 20241 min read


Indistinct
A haziness obscures the horizon as I look for boats and islands on the Mediterranean Sea, or more precisely at them for no other reason...

Michael Neal Morris
Jul 19, 20241 min read


a verse of divine demise
they said carve out the pieces of you that don't fit the world offer them up to the gods for a blessing (no, a curse) (no, a snack) that...

Misty Layne
Jul 19, 20241 min read


Adam's Bones
What came first Adam’s rib or Eve’s womb? If they were not lovers but mother and son and he slithered from between her legs coiled at her...

Haley DiRenzo
Jul 19, 20241 min read


First Morning in Spain
First morning in Spain, not counting when the plane landed and we rushed language-less to find customs and our bags, I am sitting at the...

Michael Neal Morris
Jul 19, 20241 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


I Should’ve Been an Astronaut
Looking back, I should’ve been an astronaut: brave, weightless yet still attached to the ground, the balance that would answer all...

Wallace Truesdale II
May 17, 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


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


An Age of Progress
The traditions recycled and passed down on an earth that forever stood still. An essence diluted to the dusty remains of some forgotten...

Benjamin Parker
May 17, 20241 min read


Abyssward Uprising
They sit sallow in dourness, barely a ghostfire stays illumed in the depthless height of jealous Seraphim. They are grooming nits and...

Jaymee Thomas
May 17, 20241 min read


Luna
Your crescent scars the abyss where idle bodies should remain at peace. Your light torches their ambience a lightness akin to a swift...

Evan Burkin
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 Silent Alchemy of Evening Light
In the quiet communion of night, stars of clarity softly indite their secrets— their arcane scriptures scribbled on the sky, a stippling...

Jaymee Thomas
May 17, 20241 min read


Shamanic Journey
I I go to the forest.  He waits for me there. Lofty antlers, hooves planted. I climb into his mouth  into his belly.  I light a...

Gill Shaw
May 17, 20241 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
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