Like a Snail I'll Taste the World an Inch at a Time, a Poem by Anne Marie Wells*
A ribcage After Athena Liu I'm nearing the second cairn, the first long gone [like] that first summer I learned how cruelty can live by...
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Oct 4, 20232 min
Hanamo, a Poem by Flo Au*
Cluster bombs of ashes and metals and petals of you and me and him and her suffocate the air in the blizzards of fears swiveling our...
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Oct 4, 20231 min
Stay Till the Dawn, You Might Get the Sun, a Poem by Fatima Abdullahi*
I gave my country a home in my chest. With my first cry and my father's signature, I stamped my mark into its soil, & clothed myself with...
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Sep 15, 20232 min
The Strength You Draw from Regrets, a Poem by Sofiul Azam
Only those reluctant dullards who became wise at the expense of innocence can understand the inference that the sourness of mangrove...
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Sep 1, 20231 min
As the Crow Flies, a Prose Poem by Joe Bisicchia
Feather instead my wings. All the way home, over the streets, for here we are. In truth, none alone. Christ, O Truth, take my hand.
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Aug 18, 20231 min
Chosen Child, a Poem by Robert Funderburk
He stumbled much
Always arose knowing
Another enemy waited
As the mother shed
Her tears in solitude
Seeing in him
A heart as pure as
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Aug 11, 20231 min
I Will Take You with Me, a Poem by Ann Christine Tabaka
I will take you with me beyond dark
doorways propped open with slivers
of light. Along winding trails in a blackened forest
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Aug 4, 20231 min
The Cost of Penance, a Poem by Ann Christine Tabaka
There is no justice that can be bought, no time that can
be spared. Words spoken incoherently, scatter in the wind.
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Jul 14, 20231 min
To an Empty Doghouse in Tall Weeds, a Poem by Sherry Poff
With open face you welcome the stranger looking for home. Built for a hound, you could be shelter for a multitude of field mice, a...
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Jun 30, 20231 min
Cursive, a Prose Poem by Laurie Klein
Where does love go when it dies? A stranger’s story can move like a riptide between the listener’s ears.
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Jun 24, 20232 min
Translation Memory, and Your Principle of Reduction? a Poem by Desmond F. X. Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
“True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if...
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Jun 16, 20231 min
Make a Difference! a Poem by D.R. James
—a villanelle to commencement speakers everywhere Tonight, fatigue’s grim flower unfurls, but Gandhi, gunned down, had this to say: “Be...
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May 26, 20231 min
Solitude, a Poem by Michael S. Glaser
In solitude, I am at ease with myself, able to return to my spirit when it has been shaken bearing witness to the world. In solitude, I...
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May 12, 20231 min
Loving My Enemies, a Poem by Clara Klein
When trouble lies ahead And evil shows its face, I am urged to retribution, But fight a different war. I do not consider them enemies,...
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Apr 28, 20232 min
Walking on Eggshells, a Poem by Jessica Noel Grissom
“Walk cautiously”, he warns, daring her to miss a step. She moves with quietness and grace, carefully avoiding the eggshells. She’s...
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Apr 21, 20231 min
All Our Pretty Words, a Poem by RC deWinter
your truth may not be mine nor mine yours in fact, they may be diametrically opposed the only unarguable truths in a digital world those...
David Forrest
Apr 15, 20232 min
Listening to Writers, a Poem by David Forrest
A writer visited my school. No cape or pipe but you could tell. I still have the notes, dictated word for word: If you want to write then...
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Apr 7, 20232 min
Echoes & Walls, a Poem by David Forrest
Saturday. I ask How are things in Damascus and you smile and say Fine and tell me news of your brother and sister and it’s the same news...
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Mar 31, 20232 min
Pandemic Spring and Then What? a Poem by Elaine Zimmerman
The groundhog does not see his shadow today but I give you mine for the number of springs we missed together. Buds will open in this...
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Mar 24, 20231 min
Voyage, a Poem by P. Matile
The neurotic phrasing of the African dreamers, Flies up to the sky And suddenly intertwines, Like the flight of swallows, Watching from...