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Stories

Poem of the Week
Only When
by Paul Celan
As a shadow I arouse you will you believe the truth of my mouth.
Poem of the Week
Oracle
by Alice Jones
Put out to pasture, flop down into clover, alternate to the glue factory.
Poem of the Week
Orange Berries Dark Green Leaves
by John Taggart
It is like the call of a voice the call of a voice that is not there.
Poem of the Week
Pastorelle 8
by John Taggart
Translucent white prayer strings of her bonnet trailing in the air.
Poem of the Week
Ordinary Heaven
by Ladan Osman
I have many dreams, I say. In my dreams I am better than myself.
Poem of the Week
Oregon 1945
by Stella Wong
On a jet stream, unearthly, air can travel at hundreds of miles per hour.
Poetry
Origin
by Loisa Fenichell
I remember a field too long as the stem of a pear chosen in Upstate.
Poetry
Orisha Poems
by Leslie Sainz
The woman who raised the woman who raised me was a mistress.
Poem of the Week
Other Things
by Ghassan Zaqtan
The one who sold me a smuggled gun sold me smuggled bullets.
Poetry
Owen Hart
by Meghan Dunn
Owen falls. Like a dummy. Like he’s dead even before he dies.
Poem of the Week
Own Weather
by Julian Gewirtz
Indifferent day. Sparrow fretting for rain gathers grass and seeds.
Poetry
Paean for Dinner Dates with Sarah
by Kerrin McCadden
We are everlasting. A friend is a friend is a friend in a string of lives.
Poetry
Pale Blue Vein
by Ellen Bass
It could be our baby. Her eyebrow, its perfect arc, the pale blue vein.
Poetry
Pandemic Villanelles
by Gregory Orr
It was the year we learned to wash our hands. That was one lesson.
Poetry
Paradise
by Jacob Sheetz-Willard
Instead of stained glass, give us an oil slick on the New Jersey turnpike.
Poetry
Parallel Universe
by Lisa Dordal
It was here—over the highway—where my mother got confused.
Poetry
Pardoning
by Sarah Mandl
My daughter swallows arrows of sunlight on her way to the grave.
Poetry
Paris, 1970
by Gray Jacobik
Doisneau might have eyed and shot us for how brazenly we kissed.
Poem of the Week
Part of a Traveling Exhibition
by Bob King
It’d only take a slight shift to realize his new world isn’t a danger to him.
Poem of the Week
Particles
by Dan Gerber
I don’t remember being born, only the great dog whose fur I clung to.
Poem of the Week
Partition
by Mehul Bhagat
The fog’s sheen is a mirror: my mother sees the terrain of the future—
Poem of the Week
Parts & Labor
by Ian T. Hall
Near to closing, he’d flop down in the chair to count his moldy money.
Poetry
Passing and Other Poems
by John Freeman
You can tell by the walls whoever lives here doesn’t want to be seen.
Poem of the Week
Pastoral
by Jackson Holbert
I found a lodestone & I went to the creek & I buried it in the creek bed
Poetry
Patient Zero
by Tomás Q. Morín
The beasts and fowl and all manner of slithery thing can love like us.
Poem of the Week
Peace in Autumn
by Kwame Dawes
My world must not be made of brief encounters along the neat squares.
Poem of the Week
Peach Philosophy
by J. Scott Brownlee
You must not be afraid of what waits after death, my past self says.
Poem of the Week
Peaches
by Ösel Jessica Plante
I am almost never standing in the ocean, not that way, not anymore.
Poem of the Week
Pentimenti
by Mairead Small Staid
Florence’s cobbled streets spoke like a broken wheel, a halfhearted inferno.
Poem of the Week
People Fall All the Time
by Alexandria Hall
A branch breaks and the body lands the wrong way. Snapping is easy.