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To be the moon is what he wanted me to be. round serene A face...
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Lauren Galligan
Mar 18, 20231 min
Nan's garden
At the bottom of the garden the little girl plays. It is spring and the sun is warm in this spot, Filtered through the gaps in the blue...
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Tala M.L. Davidson
Mar 16, 20233 min
Nothing Beautiful & Something Beautiful
Nothing Beautiful There is nothing beautiful to say by it, About it, there is nothing gold. The source of my heart, and yet The black...
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Hermione Byron
Jan 28, 20231 min
Thirst
I like to plant seeds in the barren lands of the Sierra, where I walk with a bucket and watch the shining eyes of the buckles on my...
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Alistair Kevan
Dec 22, 20221 min
Move better
Your petrol powered boast is trumped by the muscle moved machine, its mechanical cleverness is humble and sporting. It does not growl nor...
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Hermione Byron
Dec 1, 20221 min
Bud
I can't bear to throw out the dead flowers: When I dropped the bunch in the compost this morning, the one still alive fell from the group...
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Kailasha Wagemans
Sep 28, 20221 min
2 Poems
A poem— even with the prettiest words i couldn’t describe you the way you should be. Feeling Blue— I want words to come out of my mouth...
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Priya Basra
Sep 14, 20221 min
Breakfast at Nine & If I saw her with the ginger man I'd remember
Breakfast at Nine Saliva dominates, Her salt washed skin brushes the beads of bubbles Glistening between my hairs, She moans — the type...
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Hermione Byron
Jul 9, 20221 min
Portrait in Pain
Portrait paintings were Frida Kahlo's pain-things. Her labours of love hang as trophies of control and mocking devotion: desperate...
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Carlotta Riechmann
May 22, 20221 min
Starfishing
Ah, a day to myself. This morning, I spread To the sides of my bed With fingers and toes Like a starfish. I made pancakes, just three:...
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Natasha Hemraze
Mar 21, 20221 min
Identity.
Fragility Is Not knowing Who I am. I don’t know who I am. I don’t know where the cement was mixed and Who formed the Bricks That were...
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Devki Panchmatia
Mar 16, 20221 min
The School Orchard & Hieroglyphic Tablet from the Drought
THE SCHOOL ORCHARD In 1897, eighty clergy orphans moved into this school building. They sat on these grounds in September, surrounded by...
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JMR
Mar 10, 20223 min
Perfect Shards
* Content warning for rape. 1. I am trying to decide what I am allowed to call rape I have been reading stories testimonies straddling...
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María Benages
Feb 27, 20221 min
Wine-dark sea
Mother Sea, I forgive you drowning them then, drowning them now as well: swallowing, vomiting fish and bones through wandering waves of...
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Em Cully
Feb 27, 20222 min
The 619
Graffiti on brick walls, 24 hour liquor marts, dispensaries next to starbucks, gum hardened on sidewalk curbs, abuelas tending rose...
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