Most Read Pieces

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Tosspot
Christopher Robinson
(3)
1,696 views
We’d crawl beneath the chain-link fence at night, / sneak into the museum’s Grecian wing. / Then grab a priceless urn, and tempting fate, / toss…
First Stars, Last Light
David D. Horowitz
(0)
7 views
He knew the night would soon arrive:The turquoise-honey glow, first starsAbove the freeways full of cars,The downtown towers lit, alive / With…
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Sarah Louise Garrido
(1)
42 views
Breathe in, sun-dusted hour, / chirps and clicks of a world that precedes us. / Ancient sun, eternal moon. If I only knew / I could meet you, warm…
Different People
Becca Yenser
(1)
242 views
I am not haunted / but try to find filaments / of light that could / be ghosts against the wall / of the old railroad hotel / where we have come…
HOW I STOPPED THE MASSACRE
W. Vandoren Wheeler
(2)
980 views
/ I turned their desks into kid-sized / tanks impervious to bullets, knives, / IED’s, mean words, and bad news. / / / I turned the…
After my childhood friend / shot himself…
Steven D. Schroeder
(0)
40 views
His father, at the bookstore / where I worked, ordered / four or five earthtone guides / to daily living with loss, / weights on the hold…
Relatively Long Arms
Dora Malech
(3)
2,337 views
For his sake I steered clear of flicker, / singed the noodles, sang for supper— / sundown at last on the bad-news New Year— / hung…
Reading Dante in the ICU
Sean Bishop
(0)
718 views
Today I’d like to talk for a while about death / among the gift shop’s plush koalas and chrysanthemums, / its aisles and aisles of light-dazed…