Flannelled, freezing,
and iPhone compatible,
we re-paint the streets
with lines of Adderall
and stage our acrobatics
with subtle instamatics
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Tag Archives: Poetry
Poetry by Amber Shockley
The idea that now he could see us, hear us,
know all that we thought. Terrifying,
and too much power for a boy’s soul;
just yesterday he was a Boy Scout.
But maybe that’s the reward for feeding
your flesh to flames: clairvoyance.
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Poetry by Eddie Kim
Dying towns are filled with ghosts
of the people who inhabit them, not celestial bodies.
But what are we to the moon, if not celestial?
Could we be heavenly?
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Poetry by Roberto Ascalon
we both know what it means to shudder, pregnant
with delight at the blue veined banquet of belly, we
both kick husbands sprawling as we kneel between
their wives’ spread legs, agape with the slush of life
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Poetry by Simon Anton Nino Diego Baena
Certainly doubt can be a refuge, especially when a ray of light is beyond my reach. Continue reading
Two poems by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Which country do you love more?
The question asked of each one of us
young travelers of the diaspora,
children with shiny shoes and English textbooks. Continue reading
Poetry by Cody Pherigo
Poetry by Dante Di Stefano
Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind There is no algorithm to explain away suffering or to reanimate the skitter a leaf makes as it crosses a boyhood memory of idleness, and the most disturbing part of the brain turned positronic is that indolence would dwindle or be rewritten with code, but … Continue reading
Poetry by Shakthi Shrima
she taught you how to wriggle your hips until
the boys curdled like sour milk, told you tangency was just another
way of touching yourself. Continue reading
Two poems by David K Wheeler
Rumor is this devastates men. Continue reading
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