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Same Train
Aaron Balkan
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6,598 views
No velocity. / No mechanical voice or human sleep. / When I got to the top of the hill called / Rhubarb is susan not susan not seat / no…
THE QUIET
Alice Anderson
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805 views
(Ocean Springs, Mississippi, August 30, 2005, the day after Katrina made landfall.) // / She comes slinking in late for the party, empty-handed…
Poem for the Very Beginning
William Stobb
(1)
1,382 views
I hadn’t remembered the black screen, the first minutes of 2001. It sounds like strings are warming up, and they should get limber. I would’ve…
What’s Left
Kate Lebo
(4)
1,374 views
The front door swings closed / like thousands of doors, / and here is the lock that kicks the house to sleep. / / This is my crumby stove, my…
I Love You Like a Good Game of Skee-Ball
Eileen G'Sell
(4)
4,168 views
First of all, I never said that. / Second, if I drove a stick / I sure didn’t do it for Jesus. / / The manuscripts are warm and the salary / …
BLOWING SMOKE AT THE MOON IN PORTLAND,…
Meg Hurtado
(4)
1,167 views
Summer is for not-sleeping, for making // evil ways work, for knowing your band / is way better. That long-form vim by whose / blood & glow…
Smart Galaxies Work with Our Mother
Brenda Hillman
(5)
930 views
in round time in their fond resolve / NASA put tints on a blue to reuse / matter is unusual Small Magellanic Cloud / Whirlpool Galaxy M51 around…
How to Forget
Susan Denning
(1)
434 views
Ashes are meant for cigarettes, for doused campfires. / When I can’t remember how I got / to the middle, I start over. / / When I walk by…