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Craig Kirchner
Jul 192 min read
ADIEU
The most memorable are the finals, my father on a morphine drip, burying my first dog, Sporty. According to Oxford, "goodbye" is...
Katherine Olsen
Jul 191 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...
John Zedolik
Jul 191 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...
Rowan Tate
Jul 191 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...
Michael Neal Morris
Jul 191 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...
Misty Layne
Jul 191 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...
Haley DiRenzo
Jul 191 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...
Michael Neal Morris
Jul 191 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...
Rowan Tate
Jul 191 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...
Wallace Truesdale II
May 171 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...
Amanda C
May 171 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...
Andrew Kolarik
May 172 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...
Benjamin Parker
May 171 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...
Jaymee Thomas
May 171 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...
Evan Burkin
May 171 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...
Rick Hartwell
May 171 min read
Senior Moment
Thinly veiled moon plays peek-a-boo between clouds; shadows dance and disappear. Trepidatiously at first, then emboldened smelling gifts...
Jaymee Thomas
May 171 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...
Gill Shaw
May 171 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...
C.J. Lane
May 171 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...
Ken Goodman
May 171 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...
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