Category: Poetry

French Sardines

Rosa Lane After Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!” (249)              French sardines arrive from Boston, tin- plated. Maggie levers her can...

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when i think of quentin tarantino i think of revenge

Elizabeth J. Wenger when i think of quentin tarantino i think of revenge dressed in tight yellow leather carving a katana through the script. blood squirts like hershey’s syrup from the screen //...

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The Cicada

Anna Laura Reeve                    The dog-day cicada’s screech pierces  noon air Trees ...

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Sharp Objects

Alyssa Froehling          She takes me to a motelin the winter, a two-star with a white tilebathroom stained with drips of bloodand coffee....

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It’s an Empty-Headed Move I Love the Most

Adam Houle I swear I’ll leave your ass in Tennesseewith the trumpet vines and BarcaLoungersslumping under carports. Maybe at a BPnear the bottom of a hill, where a state roadcurves that way and a...

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Scree: Hiking in the Foothills

Laura Meyer We don’t talk about babies anymoreAnd we haven’t been drunk together in ten years. My friend tells me about a strategy for receiving long-term care in your home.I tell myself: You...

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On Leaving

Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer It is the season of thinning out the herd, and I am leaving Brooklyn. October is in the city: bright colorful leaves and a track fire on the J, stalling all trains.Over...

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Elvis Died When I Was Seven

Michael Montlack and I learned there was no castto mend a spirit, no flashlightto guide you out of a cave that dark,my older sister unwilling to bathefor weeks, my parents unwillingto make her, her...

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For Will

Cat Newton And Martin told Dan he was going to wear a top hat/ and Amaris told Alexa that she’d be in that knee length dress that has started to remind me of death/ and Reggie told me that he...

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Apocalypse 2012                                         

Martin Shapiro Hardtops sit sun-roasted in rowson a plain of asphalt:  at its far end,a megachurch in session. My Ford Feo’s a.c. eats horsepower.Eliseo doesn’t sweat this jungle...

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