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Will Sandberg
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Battle
I’m a junkie, so a high tolerance is the enemy. I fight for that which makes me feel something. We walk around the battlefield, glowing...
Ken Goodman
Nov 18, 20231 min read
The Hoverer
Walking through the city so unmindful of my legs— The Hoverer stays motionless no matter where I go, borderless GodSky also deLighting...
Nels Hanson
Nov 18, 20231 min read
I Ching
This morning the red ant and larger white-winged fly chase the frightened large striped spider across the cold floor. Why, what thirst...
Jack D. Harvey
Nov 18, 20232 min read
The Yellow Emperor
When the last lithe leopard in the emperor's crowded preserve leapt down from his arboreal perch pink-mouthed and mottled, where was the...
Helen N. Hill
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Yagas
I have a buried romanticized secret — a notion in which I came from a long line of radiant, regal witches who loved to cook. I have a...
Will Sandberg
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Report
This planet looks candied. Machines crawling its granulated surface. Three-legged metal walkers. They're lasering the planet, cutting the...
Gerard Sarnat
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Oh Well [What the Circle of Hell]
So it (just perhaps maybe) DOES turn out That those psychology class bummer tropes --Sadder But Wiser and Depressive Realism-- Simply...
Nels Hanson
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Breathe
Lift the sash, let your pale leaves taste the late summer air. Welcome the balmy wind, all pollen and dust settling on sad arms of empty...
Dai Vaughan
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Yes, It Really Happened
Those who debunk the supernatural can’t have ever experienced it When I read about Blake seeing the soul of his brother rise up through...
Heather Sager
Nov 17, 20231 min read
In the name of the decayed leaf
Might I decay, in russet brilliance, just like you, leaf. Fall adopts her prettiest dress when the singing thrush appears. With age might...
Gina Moriarty
Nov 17, 20231 min read
Bottoms Up
It’s the Ace of Wands, of Clubs. The card of talent. On its head. Telling me to look before I leap, but please, “Do not forget to leap.”*...
Paul Smith
Nov 17, 20231 min read
Devil's Anvil
I am the devil’s anvil he beats on me daily it doesn’t hurt all that much you get used to it and the pounding drowns out all the white...
Lenore Weiss
Nov 17, 20231 min read
On the Border
How many borders exist within a single universe…what is the one true, crucial border? —Jenny Erpenbeck Close to my house, a five-story...
John Grey
Nov 17, 20231 min read
What I Share This House With
The steps to the basement are dark. The basement itself is even darker. Something scurries across the damp floor. Most likely a rat. At...
Nels Hanson
Nov 17, 20231 min read
My Friend
His one kidney failing my friend each night saw visions, unknown creatures, forms half human, ghosts, circle his bed as always tiny...
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Stumbles, Ambushes, and Spells
‘Yo no creo en brujas, pero que las hay, las hay’ (Galicia’s cruel saying) There was a thief that a bad luck set him on the way to your...
Jack D. Harvey
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Timor Mortis
We make him dress up, hooded cloak, scythe and skull, the Grim Reaper, put a name to it sinister slapstick to cover the skeleton he is....
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