NO ONE THINKS M BY JOSEPH D. MILOSCH
After I help her
into the tub,
I hang her robe
on a hook.
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THE MIGHTY FALLEN BY FRANK DE CANIO
I rue those nights I’d slept,
and wakened from a dream
in which I could have wept
from loss of self-esteem.
KIERKEGAARD’S TRUE LOVE BY FINN JANNING
In the twilight of Søren Kierkegaard’s life, he begins to question his own philosophical fundament. He did not plan this.
Read MoreMOUNTAINS BY CHARLENE STEGMAN MOSKAL
Warped and melded,
the immutability of mountains,
pushed and shoved time
into crenelated niches and canyons.
TAIPEI BY FRANCESCA PIERINI
My thoughts go back to Taipei, its bright and hard-working students, all of them wearing glasses, its hyper-cute children, its grey vivacity and its smelly night-markets
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HARSH MEASURES BY FRANK DE CANIO
It’s an indulgent act that no disguise
can hide despite a battery of sounds
and vivid images that mesmerize
the senses
RESIDENTIAL REALITY BY HOLLY DUNLEA
A swing set sits in the side yard.
It was the fun house to visit,
but now it is encircled by a withering garden.
DROIT D’AUBAINE BY BRITTANY ACKERMAN
Do you remember when we found all those seashells and packaged them up into wax paper envelopes to send to all our enemies? I took a sand dollar hostage so I could memorize the rough rimmed perimeter.
Read MorePRAIRIE MORNING BY JOAN EYLES JOHNSON
A good poet once told me
A book should end with a click
PEARL BY DUSTIN CULBERTSON
On a map, Shityerself Beach is called Nehalem Bay. But only tourists and parents with young kids use its proper name. To the seasoned locals of Harper, Oregon, it’s been Shityerself Beach for as long as anyone can remember. The story goes that a surfer mythically known as Jackie B. gave Nehalem its flattering nickname in the 1950s
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