“The Maggot on Maple Street” by Courtenay Schembri Gray
Shaken from my sleep by yellow taxi dreams; toothpaste is my cork, stopping the wine from sloshing around the great caboose that is I,...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
"three blocks", "the first day of june (2022)", & "bones" by Morgan St Laurent
three blocks I said I wanted to get away So you drove me Right into The lake You said we could go camping But we never did So I wrote 100...
- Sep 18
- 2 min
"1972" & "Poem about my concrete apartment building facing the one..." by Brian Baker
1972 Did you know that in the summer of 1972 I ran the merry-go-round in Springbank Park and am really not too sure how I did not run it...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
“In My Next Life” by Anne Perez
I want to be a person who calls to the ocean Howls at it, really And hears a roar in response A crest, an invitation to dive into a...
- Sep 18
- 2 min
“Photocopy” by RJ Danvers
When I think of you I am afraid I think of you Kinder than you were. What about you did I invent? Remembering you wrong feels like some...
- Sep 18
- 2 min
“Traces” & “Moments” by David J. Kennedy
Traces The moon is a burnt orange goddess traversing the quay. Beads of rain arrive as shooting stars down a misty window on the...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
"Chicken Plant", "Grief", & "Mama’s Rug Is An Elegy I Cannot Write" by Chella Courington
Chicken Plant The line chief brags of smelling girls on the rag Thursday he says he dreams of eating me I don’t tell him my dream— hooks...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
"Nocturne" by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
I pose, arms in the air, hands haloing the moon. You draw star maps on my body unlike the charts you sketch in your closet: red crater...
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- Sep 18
- 2 min
"Blue", "Int[e]r[l]ude", "Endings", "Mothers/Daughters", & "Passages" by Abigail Weathers
Blue at sunrise I set down that portion of me and whisper to the room “Not yet,” and this is how it is for at least the long length of...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
“Rocky Narrows (Carolyn’s Curse)*" by Jess Levens
*This poem references Plaint of the Poet in an Ignorant Age, by Carolyn Kizer (1959). On a late summer morning, I ventured into Rocky...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
“7,000 acres of incinerated forest" & "juno, soaring" by Síofra Inessa
7,000 acres of incinerated forest suns burn through holes in my eyes fingers rake light through my skin of leaves every moment scalds...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
"Thin Lines" by Ly Faulk
Ly Faulk has loved reading and writing for as long as they could read and write. They still believe in the power of the written word to...
- Sep 18
- 3 min
"The Middle Distance", "A Shipwreck", & "In My Hometown, We Had a Scene" by Sara Dobbie
The Middle Distance Inside yesterday, we walked through a skeleton forest. The sun burned the sky to halfway between winter and spring,...
- Sep 18
- 2 min
"poem for the ghost of who i thought i was" & "all history is the history of failure" by John Sweet
poem for the ghost of who i thought i was a man of words found hanging in the desert a song, but not the one you’re thinking of not the...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
"Dictionary Definitions", "London’s Daughter", "B (B) A"&...by JP Seabright
Dictionary Definitions I took the book you gave me for my birthday, and smashed it across my skull, the Concise Oxford Dictionary. It was...
- Sep 18
- 1 min
“Fort Lauderdale Coriander” by Lose Touch Completely
My secret language is a cum scribbled code more immediate than a dream, but perhaps we can move past our cycles; reading Henry Miller. ...
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