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Poetry


Hakone, 2009 by Alison Lubar
October 7, 2022

We conjure Easter, / camaradrie, rebirth, and flirt.

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girl, glissading by Irteqa Khan
October 6, 2022

"incandescent with rage / pure and pelagic"

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Stages of Choking : etymology of overcoming dysphoria by Nina Miller
September 29, 2022

Life revolves around someone else's gravitational pull, and it's never enough.

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My Grandfather’s Gardens by Richard Weaver
September 20, 2022

Muscle and will trumped iron in spades.

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Minecrafting in My Daughter’s World by Daniel Flosi
September 18, 2022

She tells me how she discovered the zombie spawner in her chest. Says it’s better to create & keep them than to encounter one in the liver-dark blindness of forests.

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