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Michael Neal Morris
Jul 19, 20241 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 19, 20241 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 17, 20241 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 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...


Andrew Kolarik
May 17, 20242 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 17, 20241 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 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...


Evan Burkin
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...


Rick Hartwell
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...


Jaymee Thomas
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...


Gill Shaw
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...


C.J. Lane
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...

Ken Goodman
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...


Evan Burkin
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...


Sloan Porter
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...

Benjamin Parker
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...


Evan Burkin
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...


Lee Clark Zumpe
Mar 15, 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...


Glen Armstrong
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...


Zachary Dein Reisch
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...
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