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Friends & Enemies

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThrowing Them Away

    By J. Allyn Rosser
    smiling at far end of table with friends I don’t know

    newly wedded NYC looking down

    taking turns holding…
  • Poem
    By Xin Qiji
    Translated By Shangyang Fang
    to the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine贺新郎

    By Xin Qiji
    甚矣吾衰矣。
    怅平⽣、交游零落,只今余⼏!
    ⽩发空垂三千丈,⼀笑⼈间万事。
    问何物、能令公喜?
    我见青⼭多妩媚,料青⼭见我应如是。
    情与貌,略相似。

    ⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。
    想渊明、《停云》诗就,此时风味。
    江左沉酣求名者…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinelo nuestro

    By ire’ne lara silva
    it was the truest thing to say    a sisterhood 
    born of struggling and dreaming and training

    it was the truest…
  • Poem
    By Zach Czaia
    I'm sorry it wasn't till the end of the year
    that I asked you to write about yourselves. You filled pages…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineUniversal Truths

    By Shira Haus
    I prayed for my friend to live and he didn’t. I held his puffy hand, his heart jumping green on the…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGirl Blood Ritual Two

    By Amelia Loeffler
    You might be wondering how I got here:
    red handed, pants down, under the bleachers
    by the football field…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGirl Blood Ritual One

    By Amelia Loeffler
              In kindergarten, I find myself
                          sitting cross-legged on the playground,
                                      having a nosebleed. Steady,
                                                  …
  • Poem
    By Audrey Rose
                standing ajar in the fluorescent light
    of her dressing room      a twenty-something-
                year-old girl reached…
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