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Desire & Passion

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  • Poem
    By Jacques J. Rancourt
    I dressed as a stag: headpiece
    of antlers, fabric flowers

    hot-glued to a harness, my ass
    hanging out of…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFebruary 14

    By Jesse Nathan
    Going to the Russian bathhouse on Innes
    to lie naked on a shelf in the steam
    while the hatted man
    swanning…
  • Poem
    By bruno darío
    Translated By Kit Schluter
    I want to accompany you
    on the adventure of mastery.
    How I’d love
    our love, the antonym of art!
  • Poem
    By Sasha Pearl
    I went to Ulta Beauty to buy perfume
    I was horny and I wanted the universe inside my nose
    The lit shelves…
  • Poem
    By Bhion Achimba
    When Ovid drives the Buick, it is from one sharp end
              of Boston to the Cape—as if he must escape the …
  • Poem
    By Dorothy Parker
    I think, no matter where you stray,
    That I shall go with you a way.
    Though you may wander sweeter lands…
  • Poem
    By Shereen Akhtar
    In our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
    a calligraphic feast. Our friends…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSkeleton Key

    By Colby Cedar Smith
    I loved a preacher’s son.

    Hide and seek
    in labyrinthine basements
    red roses and kissing.

    A deep wooden…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineHer Grimoire

    By Gavriella Gilbert
    So, she breathes. Do you believe in God 
    like the rest of them? Birch-light
    rains down the wall, moving…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMarch

    By Jessica Jiang
    Tiffany,
    I’ve gotten used to sunlight with you,
    but no pressure! Just—
    spring doesn’t hurt as much anymore…
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