Ritual of the Dead

Brandee BensonMay 31, 2023

My mother tells me to stop stalling, every second a lost epiphany. I wonder if she sees girl eating time or time eating girl. Sometime in the last millio...

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My Abstraction

Joshua BirdMay 29, 2023

the moth dries on the spot, the spot marked here, abstractions were wet with viscera even when you drew a line through and through the essay, experience is kill...

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Burger King of Rome

Deron EckertMay 23, 2023

The one on the bypass back home where we had countless birthday parties in the playroom with the plastic tunnels and slides leading to the mesh-encased ball ...

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Neon World

Ashley DingMay 22, 2023

Dads shoulders were the top of the neon world Cotton candy ice cream dripping down my arms Vivid blue and vibrant pink stains all over my body Losing my teet...

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It’s Too Early For This

Jeana MahanMay 16, 2023

I saw someone in the airport that looked like you. Maybe it was because I just put my glasses on. Maybe it was because it was six in the morning. Maybe if I s...

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I am watching a 2003 Oprah Show clip on TikTok

Victoria NordlundMay 2, 2023

where Tim and Wendy White haven’t cut their hair in seventeen years & Tim is a bass player in a never found fame band & Wendy struggles with her 1989 ...

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late into some night

Austin DavisApril 20, 2023

if i’m falling out on the couch & see the doorknob twist then twist back i’ll trip over my legs to unbolt the lock i’ll hug u & not say a word i...

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Venetian Ceruse

Emma WellsApril 17, 2023

A pliable cancer blithely swept across faces of noblewomen smearing ignorant flesh with stark virginity; painting untruths with wide brushstrokes of stee...

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After Watching Joni Mitchell at Newport

David P. MillerApril 6, 2023

1977 and we four were all twenties in that Pittsburgh dining room: my first wife, our actress friend who vaulted a path to Broadway, the friend’s friend, and...

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Summer, 1998

Jenny BoyarApril 4, 2023

When gospel was found in glossy pages of magazines I pored over, lemon juice soaking my hair, I was first learning how to be somebody I was not. “Baby On...

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Bankers, Crows & Brandon Lee

Aidan ChafeMarch 30, 2023

This morning the sky hung with feathered syntax composed on wires. I discovered abstract expressionist crows had Pollocked the hood of my Prius. A stude...

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If I Died Tomorrow I’d Want You To Know This

Jeana MahanMarch 26, 2023

Your post-it notes are endearing. When I say they’re stupid they’re actually not. Your beard could use a trim. Actually, that’s me being nice. I hate it. Ple...

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The Kids These Days Want to Be Happy

Susan L. LearyMarch 23, 2023

So I say, be happy, though the instinct in me doesn’t capture what I mean. I’d like to think I’d refuse an apology that stumbles drunk out of the bar, that I’d ...

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I still don’t have anything better to do

Victoria NordlundMarch 19, 2023

Tonight I drink merlot from the depression glasses Grandma collected from the EM Loew’s Theater. I wonder what her fave movies were in 1925. I worked a...

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La Reine Quotidienne

Ecem YucelMarch 17, 2023

Every day, she wakes up, goes to the bathroom, and wipes the remnants of the night mask from her face. She washes and curls her blonde hair, whose roots must be...

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Pissing My Grief Away

Devin TaylorMarch 16, 2023

I tinkle far too often, especially now: in coffee mugs, glass tumblers, beer cans, soda bottles, brandy snifters, red solo cups on my nightstand. Emptied eve...

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Things I Know About Patrick Swayze

Katherine ShehadehMarch 1, 2023

after Sandra Simonds   That the weather in the Catskills welcomes in the summer That we once mistook Ghost for a horror film with a hunky male lea...

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Could we have made it through the cold?

isabella clarkFebruary 21, 2023

We didn’t, all four seasons once around, but my unconditional love never stood a chance to keep your heart bound///   This pain, the wind brought ...

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The Shining

Lina BuividavičiūtėFebruary 15, 2023

Inspired by Stephen King’s novel The Shining   What will you find in the memory cutouts, Daddy? How will you explain the black dream mutations, the d...

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How to Fix Transistor Radios and Printed Circuits

Bryce JohleFebruary 15, 2023

He plops down a faded blue hardcover book and says when he dies, this has all we need to know. This will tell you about the electronics and engineering of...

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HADLEY IS SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS

Maya StaplesFebruary 13, 2023

I tell Becca’s boyfriend how when I was 9, I scratched my kneecaps much too hard, and ever since they have been bumpy and so sad. This will be our lil secret, t...

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finding that i am

Giovanna LomantoFebruary 12, 2023

it’s some weird dream that i know is a dream and the dream knows that i know that it’s a dream so the dream is like falling and it’s like saying to myself th...

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Carbon Pressure

Luke JohnsonFebruary 7, 2023

The thing you hate is hidden in the grass. Is groaning. Wants a boy to rub the urge be urge to suck it first then swallow. Every inch. Is snake in a box drum, ...

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What Are You Wearing Right Now? (An Outfit of Four Poems)

Benjamin DavisJanuary 29, 2023

Pant You only need one pair of pants. I know this because I’ve worn these pants for over seven hundred days; black sweatpants masquerading as jeans; flip up th...

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Inside the Waiting Room, I Put My Phone on Do Not Disturb

Hanna PachmanJanuary 26, 2023

I wait for my lover to text me. I wait for the doctor to see me. What am I able to build from his instructions? I wish you were seeing someone, because th...

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How a Scorpio loves (thoughts while you were sleeping)

Gretchen FilartJanuary 24, 2023

The rain thrummed on the rusty red roof while my mind wandered to the honeyed swaths of mountains in small town Ukiah where I will toil for the American drea...

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Tinder Bio

Carly Wheelehan GelsingerJanuary 22, 2023

my three daughters are forming & they watch. I have grown teeth inside me, spun feeding cords from my own blood & though each month I’ll s...

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Journalistic Integrity of Your Own Mind

Noah CiceroJanuary 19, 2023

Sitting with old retired men, men who have been very nice to me Men who donate to charity, men who spend time in soup kitchens But time has passed for them, a...

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Weekend alone

Lindsay HargraveJanuary 19, 2023

I feel like I have so many buried treasures in my name. They are all the names of kung fu movies you begged me to watch and I greedy watched without...

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I am a Planet

Michelle ErotasJanuary 11, 2023

Do not land All heroes spat back out into orbit Choking, my dust in their lungs I ask no man to come light up my caves Another boot on my cheek and I s...

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