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Lea HousleySep 24, 2023Death of VenusI wonder if she’s ever noticed how people talk to her art through their eyes. The first girl that loved me told me my body looked like a...
C.W. ArnimSep 24, 2023The Man Who Liked KiplingI met Mr. Cooper as a result of the occurrence of a couple of events over which I had no control whatsoever. The first of these...
Hollie ZiskindSep 24, 2023Night Waits for Us AllTell me I’m beautiful until I can tell myself, while my green eyes hold scars that match the pink ones in my heart Sticky adhesions in...
Lauren ChildsSep 24, 2023Nature Demands I scoured the fields for purple flowers Tulips that were fragrant of the Spring in Colorado I searched for the butterflies that flapped...
Sterling WarnerSep 24, 2023Quills Unperturbed In a dearth of mud shrimp, sea bass, and perch, herons pick plumage for parasitic hosts: vagabond ticks screwed into flesh between...
Roger CraikSep 24, 2023VINCENT’S SWIRL OF STARS UNPAINTEDYour self-torn life, drawn to paint. A narrow sunlit wooden room where all a man need do is lie upon his single bed beneath the...
Leonardo ChungSep 24, 2023KaleidoscopeAre you there? Please, clutch those memories of half-forgotten dreams of waves that cradle sparkled sand. Quick, listen closely and...