Category Archives: Poetry
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On Triumph
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by Colin Bailes I keep wondering if I am the shore the waves crash roughly across, or the waves, …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
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As I write this note for the fall issue, pileated woodpeckers are destroying my house. Beautiful creatures they are, and …
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Notes on the Micros
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Sometimes we blow the bubble. It has to be big enough to hold us in. To keep the unwanted realities …
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At the Psyche Mirror
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by Hannah Kroonblawd the music room ceiling is first to catch fire citrus wood and ivory splitting in …
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Vesper
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by Lindsey Warren Hyacinths like microphones emerge from the topsoil to broadcast the motives of light, the angels you …
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Ghost Bird
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by Michele Karas A Great Egret approaches the field, her yellow beak spearing the mist. Am I awake or …
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Like a Balcony
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by Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo Like a balcony I see that I wish to see. The birds departing the snapping …
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Growing Up
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by Michele Reese When paring oranges, my mother used to turn the rind into a snake. She would stand …
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Dianthus Clavelina, Sprout!
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by John Linstrom Darkling seed, paper-thin, consider all the growth you’ve seen: a shriveled tab three aphids wide erupted …
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Tarot Reading: The Hanged Man (inverted)
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by Connie Wasem Scott It’s clear he’ll never be happy. He’s strung up by an ankle and hangs from …
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