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Category Archives: Poetry
At that age when we girls become fairies
Kristin Anderson At that age when we girls become fairies Fifteen is before the wings come—no, that’s wrong. At fifteen we’ve begun to feel the nubs of bone pushing at the muscle, the skin of our backs. These bones aren’t … Continue reading
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“Supernova Sunday” by Ralph Monday
Ralph Monday Supernova Sunday How strange to think that the death of a star exploding as a silent ghost in an abandoned house gave rise some unfathomable time later to these Sunday musings. I am a space orphan not knowing … Continue reading
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“Dust of Creation” by Heather M. Browne
______________ Heather M. Browne is a faith-based psychotherapist and recently emerged poet, published in the Orange Room, Boston Literary Review, Page & Spine, Eunoia Review, Poetry Quarterly, The Poetry Bus, Red Fez, The Muse, An International Journal of Poetry, Deep … Continue reading
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Star/Formation
Star_Formation-(Link to PDF File) The above link is to a PDF file. I apologize for the format- but it is necessary to display the poem in its proper form -Webmaster. Copyrighted by the … Continue reading
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Undone
Alison McBain Undone Music fails when the window goes down— he’s coming up the steps and you can’t see his bitter youth, time machine to years ago. Over and over, I listened to you. Words unnecessary in the decades held … Continue reading
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Smoke and Mirrors
Maura Lydon Smoke and Mirrors It is silent. But I can hear the ticking of the clock in front of me. Ancient thing. Who would want that awful sound circling their ears? It echoes, sickeningly, into the mirrored silence. The … Continue reading
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Oblivion
Yilin Wang Oblivion No need for painkillers: we have found a faster way to induce anesthesia. We build shrines to cyber gods in exchange for the power to keyboard our destiny. Copy clones in RPGs and chat rooms, press buttons … Continue reading
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Bravura
Bravura by Corey Klinzing I am horrified of these two hands and the mechanism that beats under my sternum. I wished for empathy. It is true what they say: be careful. This is a terrible compassion, it wants me to … Continue reading
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Medusa’s Garden: A Vampire’s Lament
Medusa’s Garden: A Vampire’s Lament by Gina Marie Bernard I picture you in a dream (Or you fancy that I’m watching you) beautifully balanced beneath the sliver of a silver moon as thin and sharp as the edge of your … Continue reading
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Introduction to Poetry in July 2014 Issue
We are proud to present six fine poets for the July 2014 issue. The opening poem, “Medusa’s Garden: A Vampire’s Lament” (Gina Marie Bernard, Wilton, MN), presents a wonderfully speculative question. Gina Marie wrote, “staring at the ceiling, unable to … Continue reading
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