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  • Poem
    By Rochelle Hurt
    [if you marry your confession, you can live alone inside it. no priest behind the window. no wife or…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Ostriches

    By Dorothea Lasky
    In every rose there is the scent of death
    I thought I was one of them
    But I’m not and I’ve never been

    Who…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Star

    By Dorothea Lasky
    Helen Frankenthaler is an evil eye
    I put her behind me
    And hoped for the best
    Even she knew
    I was lying
    Lying…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineAn Optimism

    By Cameron Awkward-Rich
    It is morning. Remember that.
    It is morning and the house is quiet,
    so quiet that I can, for the moment…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineLake Chateau

    By Dorothea Lasky
    I still feel the same
    As the day that I first met you
    Though softened by all of this time

    I still think…
  • Poem
    By Mona Arshi
    I haven’t killed a single thing in
    Months and hand on heart
    It’s getting tiresome.
    I take soft steps in…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOctober 9

    By Jesse Nathan
    For today I’ll try to memorize the strange wide shape
    of two writhing coast oaks
    the way a fog looks like…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOvercast Sky

    By Nakahara Chūya
    Translated By Jeffrey Angles
        one morning     I saw     a black flag
    fluttering     up there     in the sky
        the flag fluttered     back and forth     back…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDear Sister Agnes,

    By Jacques J. Rancourt
              Can I still call you
                        Emily? Not long after
    we last saw each other, I too changed

              my name. Dropped …
  • Poem
    By bruno darío
    Barrí toda mi casa, y la encontré otra. En los rincones había otros más pequeños que la máscara de polvo…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine短歌四首

    By Shizuka Omori
    やましさが案山子のように立っているからだを抜けてくるのか歌は

    触れることは届くことではないのだがてのひらに蛾を移して遊ぶ

    後ずさりできぬ鳥たち   二人称をずたずたにする夕焼けだった

    皆殺しの〈皆〉に女はふくま…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine曇天

    By Nakahara Chūya
       ある朝   僕は   空の   中に、
    黒い   旗が   はためくを   見た。
       はたはた   それは   はためいて   いたが、
    音は   きこえぬ   高きが   ゆえに。

       手繰り   下ろそうと   僕は   したが、
    綱も   なければ   それも   叶…
  • Poem
    By bruno darío
    Translated By Kit Schluter
    I swept my house and found another. In every corner was another smaller corner, which the dust mask …
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