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Evan Burkin
May 171 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...
Sloan Porter
May 171 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...
Benjamin Parker
May 171 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...
Evan Burkin
May 171 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...
Lee Clark Zumpe
Mar 151 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...
Glen Armstrong
Mar 151 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...
Zachary Dein Reisch
Mar 151 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...
Craig Kirchner
Mar 152 min read
Schadenfreude
I, too, have been in the underworld like Odysseus, and shall be there often yet … - Friedrich Nietzsche Tripping into court Morality...
Frank William Finney
Mar 151 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....
Ralph Dranow
Mar 151 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...
Abbie Hart
Mar 151 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...
Marc A. Brimble
Mar 151 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...
Rose Jeanou
Mar 151 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....
Lauren Elise Fisher
Mar 151 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...
Ron Tobey
Mar 152 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...
Cathy Joyce Lee
Mar 151 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...
Venus Fung
Mar 151 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...
Elvins Artiles
Mar 151 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...
Meredith Brown
Mar 151 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...
Ron Tobey
Mar 152 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...
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