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November 2022 / Poetry

The Bar in Hell

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 - by Michael Lista

Just pick a stranger, and do the human dance, / Wagering your lost soul on your last romance

A man wearing a checkered blazer, glasses, and a fedora smiles and stares downward, against a bright pink background.

Poetry / September/October 2022

Kettle

September 9, 2022 - by James Pollock

Hesitant whistles. Then this wheezing laugh, / growing hysterical, like a dance-of-death

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Brink

August 5, 2022 - by Terese Mason Pierre

the moon in your chest squeezing / salt water down your untouched flesh

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Tears of Things

August 5, 2022August 16, 2022 - by Susan Musgrave

how I desired, / beyond all reason, those unreachable sweets

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Telephone Repairman

July 12, 2022July 13, 2022 - by Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin

I could take this hammer and drive it / through a wet-oak memory of itself

Black and white portrait of James Langer superimposed on an orange background.

June 2022 / Poetry

New Adventures in Hi-Fi

June 14, 2022 - by James Langer

No bread crumbs left to return us, but diversions / Lobbed beyond a blind hill into the unforeseeable

June 2022 / Poetry

Our Second

June 1, 2022 - by Jana Prikryl

one thing constantly / enters another, becoming not one with it

Greyscale photograph of Jim Johnstone superimposed on an orange background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Heaven Spot

May 9, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Jim Johnstone

A line, a lip, a like- / ness reclaimed

Greyscale portrait of Luke Hathaway superimposed against a green background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Ballad

April 27, 2022 - by Luke Hathaway

after David Thomson

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