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Jared T. Wilkerson
Jan 19, 20241 min read
His Sword Shone Brightly
His sword shone brightly, as I drew my own. May God forgive me. I had never fought one, so bold, and so knightly who held the throne. His...


Donna Kathryn Kelly
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Qigong
I will tell them about the delectation, the solar burst of my heart: how twice it softly jolted me out of the sleep-verge like a glowing...


Kelly Winget
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Of Gods and Monsters
Maybe we were better off When gods and monsters walked among us. When evil walked the world, But we knew it when we saw it. And the...


R. Gerry Fabian
Jan 19, 20241 min read
The Third Jilting
I nearly set the date— I always put great stock in astrology. And with our planets so aligned I moved with a false confidence. My bouts...


Shana Ross
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Hall of Mirrors
I once studied in the hall of mirrors, kept my back to the reflections. I never recognize myself anyway. I looked out the wall of windows...


Holly Payne-Strange
Jan 19, 20241 min read
The Cards
The Empress. The Ten of Cups. The King Of Swords. First comes a strange sensation, Like a poppy racing to bloom, Or a present hastily...


Jim Murdoch
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Vampires Anonymous
My name does not matter anymore. Who I was and what I am have become one and the same: I am hungry and I have been hungry for so long now...


George Bandy
Jan 19, 20241 min read
boxed & delighted
boxed & delighted we sit knowing now is not the time to speak whether in doting monologues or mythic verse but sit we sit holding our own...


Shana Ross
Jan 19, 20242 min read
Recurring Nightmare
The beloved science teacher does this every year: takes a large glass container to the front of the room, shows it to the class empty, of...


Jordan Davidson
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Conception of the Demigod
For you, I’d stand sacrificial on the plinth, neck first. Perhaps the gravest worship Is an oncoming death. My willingness to Spill. I...


Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Dreaming a Home-Journey From Exile
Sometimes one of us rises to the surface, taking flight from the bottom of Dark Sea, where, exiled, we have stayed for so long. Defeated...


Helen N. Hill
Nov 18, 20231 min read
The mugwort leaves beneath
my head speak to my soul from under my pillow. I drink the occult of the night as dreams of Goddess Artemis surface. In a forest, among...


Terry Chess
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Road Trip
The road ahead slithers like a giant black serpent in restless desert night Fingers drum on the wheel to the beat of his demons, as...


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...

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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...
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