Instantaneous self-portrait

Christos KalliSeptember 29, 2016

02.00 a.m. shut up and let the snow speak. the posture of the weaving trees sights a complain. if you could speak the language it would be about too much whi...

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¿I can has emotionz?

Devin TaylorSeptember 28, 2016

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Cosmic Inflation

Monica BeaujonSeptember 27, 2016

i know ghosts and they are made of light— mountains are just the bones of earth and my skin is just the artificial border between me and infinity when did...

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Scintillating Come Down

Matt AlexanderSeptember 20, 2016

Come down with me. Let me implant in your brain a picture, Dr. Robotnik, of Technicolor gray. With a scintillation, I tripped into Sonic’s Sega bodega, C...

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some *drake voice* tings i wrote after i thought for a second.

Adrian RojasSeptember 6, 2016

on my down comforter, which is too warm for summer the other day, i felt a little taller a bottle rocket’s skeleton falls onto the roof a flash there, ...

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HAVE SOME LOVE

Katie FosterAugust 30, 2016

I don’t know. Too long. Absolutely I listen too. And you have perfect dreams. This is your daddy. This is your animal. You. ...

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CHARLIE ROSE

Salvatore DifalcoAugust 23, 2016

1 Late for morning shows, isn’t it? Blue sneakers give away the athlete? Did he ball at Duke? Back when black sneakers ruled. 2 Once no...

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New Moon Warranty

Em MellerAugust 16, 2016

If moons aren't planets But magma satellites And each lunar month A new one's guaranteed, Why are we on your couch Watching ancient episodes Of FRIEND...

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Thinking Ahead

Rivka YekerAugust 11, 2016

I plan our break-up before we have our first kiss. It’s as if I am yearning for  someone to hurt me before they love me. Whip out the chain and slash me  acro...

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Applications of Verbs in the Past Tense

Hunter LewinskiAugust 9, 2016

Meets/Met Falls/Fell Holds/Held Kisses/Kissed Grows/Grew Disagrees/Disagreed Fights/Fought Cries/Cried Tries/Tried Loves/Loved Hates/Hated Speaks/Spo...

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Three Techno Poems

Anna MirzayanAugust 2, 2016

“what would a hologram of a queer body look like?” In this refracted museum light my flesh looks odd, distorted, limpid, dripping—- canned like a digital p...

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When I Go Out

Jono NaitoJuly 28, 2016

when i say my name i pick my voice up off the floor dust it off stretch it out it was made with mountain timber and a cellists draw   i count the day...

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Selfie

Brian McCartyJuly 20, 2016

The most perfect thing I’d ever made, he wore my smile with a candor I could never muster, stretched it like the neck hole of a favorite sweater as he gave...

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IN THE SONORAN DESERT ACROSS THE BORDER

Elijah TubbsJuly 18, 2016

Unborn bodies follow us to New Tenochtitlan where poppies and marigolds flower, hidden in tall grass a grist of bees has built their hive in the carcas...

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Like an Orbiting Planet

A.J. HuffmanJuly 13, 2016

Gravity and panic collide, pulse—a heartbeat of balance is born. I flare—a meteorite, burning through the night. You crash, a firefly hanging against the ...

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Taza Abeja

Michael DemyanJuly 7, 2016

work in boots call anyone later and music   is there that which is such a complication   another state where my truck goes on occasion ...

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Owed to Byron Rufus Newton

Fallon AshleyJuly 6, 2016

Distasteful in air, under meds, under-nourished and over-bred, Soulless, Source-less, bank's delight, Numbed by day and dumbed by night; Bedwarfed the...

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Microorganism

Kelli SimpsonJune 29, 2016

Microorganism in the macro cosmos seeks host   must understand the duties of middle man and like to travel   robust constitution a plus &nb...

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conditional

lauren framentJune 28, 2016

sometimes, i become a mouth that bites. sometimes, a mouth that can only say don’t. sometimes, a silence fills the mouth that i become because i cannot remem...

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Late Space

Adam GianforcaroJune 21, 2016

I’m waiting for space to approach time the way sound races behind some Mach-numbered aircraft, fast and nervous like locker room glances. Space is just doing...

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Untitled (Before I Wanted to Be Alone Now I Hate Hearing the Sound of my Breath at Night)

Brett BennettJune 15, 2016

sometimes i think i’m almost home because every citgo street light burger king waffle house looks the same. And when the streets are empty and the strip...

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Notes from Work

Jesse PradoJune 14, 2016

When I was a kid my dad bought a crab for our fish tank, and it killed all of our fish, and escaped   *   When I was in the sixth grade I aske...

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Death Song

Jamie KahnJune 7, 2016

And even on the days when the sun is out shorts weather the music skips and my pits sweat and my curls droop as my hands so sticky from sweet tea grip the...

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The West Indian Manatee on Xanax

Laura ManardoJune 1, 2016

Manatease me, brother. Because you like to. Because it’s “our thing,” and having something makes it okay, makes it good. But don’t look at me with glazed eyes, ...

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Michael AlbrightMay 31, 2016

there aren't many new ones surfacing anymore five years down the line & who knows why this draws me? I know even though I can't see them people are dying ...

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CONSIDERATIONS

Kevin BertoleroMay 24, 2016

They tell me that youth is a virtue, but when will it stop feeling like a limitation on my lifestyle?   My parents married at twenty-two and I can’t...

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A User’s Guide to Owning a Heart

Hannah Rose NeuhauserMay 17, 2016

1) Make sure you have one. When you feel an infant’s milk breath on your skin, do you experience a seismic shift in your ribs? You are in luck. If not, place yo...

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Betty White

Meg JohnsonMay 12, 2016

Betty White, can I cry on your shoulder? My breasts are like mood rings, they already understand. I want to wear a mood ring as an adult and not feel...

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from Coyote

Zachary CosbyMay 10, 2016

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kamels as a dietary supplement

Shannon CawleyMay 3, 2016

I SWALLOW THIS TAR MY TONGUE SCREAMS INTO THE OBLIVION FOR HELP THEY CANT SEND THE SMOKE SIGNAL HIGH ENOUGH, THIS HEAVINESS IS AN OLD FRIEND AND I WISHED THE...

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