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Stories

Poem of the Week
Absence rarely makes the heart grow fonder, or so my mother said.
Poem of the Week
Lunatics call it annihilation . . . Think of it as not doing a thing
Poem of the Week
Suddenly two would dart and clasp one another belly to belly.
Poetry
Imagine octopus, and keep the talk going through the chew.
Poetry
Tell her I put poison in the pot and I intend to watch her drink it.
Poetry
The mechanism and its crank pull us forever closer, you and I.
Poetry
The walls pull apart like a troubled couple, finally deciding to hold.
Poetry
I want you enough to gnash you into a silence made from pieces of silver.
Poetry
My daddy used to yodel. That’s not all. He'd wear plaid shorts & guinea Ts.
Poetry
Robert Hedin
Poetry
Marianne Boruch
Poetry
Judith Harris
Poetry
Two bikers, the bartender, me, and a skinny girl in skintight blue jeans.
Poetry
At night the voices on the patio sound like small darting birds.
Poetry
Years ago I wanted parallel lives, to see how it turns out for all of me.
Poetry
I’ve taken the pledge and made donations of blood to the world.
Poetry
How large our muscles have to be to lift our wings even a single time.
Poetry
My baby was calling to me. But I was welded to the mountain.
Poetry
What do you offer someone who has lost half of her beginning?
Poetry
My brush an M-16, thirty-round clips for tubes of paint, all of them red.
Poetry
Even the busiest of businessmen are out for the count, paying the price.
Poetry
What excuse did I use to pick a fight with that arrogant poet?
Poetry
Soon everything here will be sopped up by time. Only art will last.
Poetry
I am veins and breath, the entrance the world passes through.
Poetry
You know what you’ve come looking for you probably won’t find.
Poetry
There’s nowhere he can kiss where she hasn’t been kissed by the sun.
Poetry
Michael McGriff
Poetry
They plant whispers where shouts incinerate into hisses.
Poetry
This is the stupid math of loving another human being.
Poetry
A child no bigger than small change calls from her window j’ai faim.