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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


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 15, 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
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