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March/April 2022 / Poetry

Heel Poem / Black-Hooded

March 8, 2022March 9, 2022 - by Tolu Oloruntoba

I want a crane poem to / deconstruct the sarcophagus-heavy helmet and corset, the luminescent poster-sun on the wall

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Poetry / September/October 2021

Myth

August 27, 2021 - by Terese Mason Pierre

You’d rather die by myth, / come upon the villains of your / mother’s bedtime stories

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Poetry / September/October 2021

Soil

August 20, 2021 - by Bertrand Bickersteth

A field is / just the fist side / of a fact

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Poetry

After You

July 23, 2021 - by Brian Wickers

After you left / us, I was left / feeling you’d leapt / through a door swept

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July/August 2021 / Poetry

Observed and Observing, That’s Him

July 2, 2021June 29, 2021 - by Armand Garnet Ruffo

From his vantage, he has a bird’s eye view / and he can see they are doing their best / to ignore the dark sky

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July/August 2021 / Poetry

Spirit at Summer’s End

June 18, 2021 - by Roo Borson

At any given moment / something rare and exact / will have happened here

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Photograph of Steven Heighton
July/August 2021 / Poetry

Dream Fragment

June 11, 2021June 15, 2021 - by Steven Heighton

Who among us up here / wouldn’t want his love, her love / to carry a trace that clear

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Poetry

Three Poems

June 4, 2021June 3, 2021 - by Susan Swan

A series of new poems by Susan Swan

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Photograph of Brian Bartlett
June 2021 / Poetry

Revising the Will

May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 - by Brian Bartlett

Clients’ eyes are often drawn to the expanse— / all those miniaturized tugboats, minesweepers, / frigates, and cruise ships

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Portrait of Jenny Boychuk
June 2021 / Poetry

After Life

May 20, 2021 - by Jenny Boychuk

Memory slithers, wicked. Its demands make / birds fly jagged into the false mouths of trees

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