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The Color of Dirt
An emboldened doe bakes in Liverpool under heated greens & beech limbs. Its red dew soaks the edges of its shallow birth. A fermentation...

Evan Burkin
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


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


Divination
i. Templum Having spilled spells over wine-slick lips, the skies divide. The augur marks the passing of each avian pilgrim. From their...

Lee Clark Zumpe
Mar 16, 20241 min read


Philosopher’s Stone
I imagine the planets signing our name. I circle ideas with grease pencil and x others out. My best friend warns of a smear campaign. I...

Glen Armstrong
Mar 15, 20241 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


Goth Garage
Dank thurible of oil and pine; A congregation draped in dust: paddles, oars, and mouldy sails; surfboards, lawn chairs, bits and bobs....

Frank William Finney
Mar 15, 20241 min read


The Eyes of Hazrat Inayat Khan
His dark, penetrating eyes are gazing right at you, inviting you to connect, to be your true self, conscious and present. And at the same...

Ralph Dranow
Mar 15, 20241 min read


helen of troy as my great grandmother
she boiled rocks, you know on the stove to get rid of the spirits. an image of an elderly helen of troy one that did not disappear with...

Abbie Hart
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Call Me Dave
David Bowie came to me in a great big dream. I’d just finished talking with Salvador Dali, he’d been teaching me how to make a million by...

Marc A. Brimble
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Waterfire
The witch like me—the witch always sees— The four elements in harmony North South East West Skeleton fisherman Purges the depths....

Rose Jeanou
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Book of Life
The parchment will eventually go thin / you’ll brush it gently and yet it’ll tear / there’s no cure for the impending age / forget any...

Lauren Elise Fisher
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Driving West from White Sulphur Springs with Ralph Waldo Emerson
I drive west from White Sulphur Springs in my black and bruised 2005 Silverado model 2500 4x4 Heavy Duty up 7% grades hauls easily 20,000...

Ron Tobey
Mar 15, 20242 min read


The Lighthouse
I breathe the cursed air haunted fog with spectral halos white horse waves roll at my feet tossing dead souls as a sacrifice I tried to...

Cathy Joyce Lee
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Babylon
Hanging Babylon, fig trees of dream—uncut oasis, liquor of sun. Perfect Babylon: a sceptre, ailing queen, a gospel of hoaxes preachers...

Venus Fung
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Good Friday and the Weekend
The end of life is a beautiful woman beside you; her yellow self cast forth from the yellow lamp: a buzzing papilio yellow-robed, red...

Elvins Artiles
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Dionysus
I pray to Dionysus— begging him to walk me through his vineyard Asking him to sew me to his thigh and make me twice-born too I fear he is...

Meredith Brown
Mar 15, 20241 min read


On Viewing 'Winged Victory of Samothrace' at Musée du Louvre
Magnificent Niké alights upon a plinth of stones her huge wings of blue the wrapped mantle of fine linen around her legs hemmed in blue...

Ron Tobey
Mar 15, 20242 min read
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