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Knowing You Could Is Better Than Knowing You Will | Mark Bibbins
I must see you; let’s meet at the fringes of respectability
at quarter past nine. We could straddle the oft-licked
curb (it’s the repetition we like). I promise not to say
anything louche when you buss the backs of my fingers.
What is that noise coming from the other side of the river ( Read more... ) -
Cello // Kerry Carnahan
I spread my legs and drew it close.
Positioned my pinky, closed my hand.
Lifting elbows and chin I took a slow, deep breath
and from my thighs poured a sound so profound
and aching
everyone looked up as if I’d done it wrong.
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To Grieve in Other Verbs // Kimberly Grey
Tie the ribbon around yourself & see how long it holds. You are alive
& have just begun to wrestle. There are other ways to fly. You’re trying
to marry human & loss, trying to shape & peel the wound. Find a place
to house large things. The walrus lost its hands to evolution, so it taught
itself to roll. Now, you hover over the earth. You’re barely ( Read more... ) -
How I Come to You // Molly Peacock
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Awón/Sin // Nathalie Handal
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Two Poems // Rhett Iseman Trull
Instructions on How to Leave MeTell me again about that dream where ( Read more... ) -
Repititions // Jennifer Moxley
When fixed into my explanations this phrase
provided ballast-canned goods for a journey
that promised to be long, and that was good.
"Make it new." I said and thought it, held it up
against destruction: how I loved the world
I was denied. The idea when it seemed to matter ( Read more... ) -
Stand and Burn | Claudia Boleyn
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Happy First Anniversary (In Anticipation of Your Thirty-Ninth) // Bob Hicok
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I Have Let You // Shann Palmer
make me cruel ( Read more... )