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Finding His Way into the Dark

By: Brian Beatty

30 Mar 2020

what the map said was once a buffalo jump

Poetry

Under and Down

By: Camille Louise Goering

30 Mar 2020

Between us, there are threads of doubt, unwinding spools like spider webs across the scalded earth

Poetry

The Wolf

By: Kaily Dorfman

30 Mar 2020

Fixing my pipes, for the plumber, / is a simple thing. He whistles gently as I tell him / about the yellow eyes I saw last night.

Poetry

naked

By: Nome Emeka Patrick

23 Mar 2020

We had never seen naked men do what we did.

Poetry

Multiverse

By: Jenny Thompson

16 Mar 2020

If there is a universe for every possibility, is there a universe where all the bad things happened?

Poetry

Such Monstrous Births

By: Emily Smith

9 Mar 2020

the frost comes for what they leave behind

Poetry

Playing Fetch with the Grim

By: Cam Kelley

2 Mar 2020

barks, it sounds like fireworks. / Runs off and emerges later to drop / Spit-drenched ball at the feet of myself.

Poetry

New York, 2009

By: Mayra Paris

24 Feb 2020

tight braids coiled into isles and continents against our scalps

Poetry

Procrastination (A Lullaby)

By: E. F. Schraeder

17 Feb 2020

Slip out of duty like a loose shirt. Hide from the biting hum of time.

Poetry

Abstraction

By: Gabriel Ascencio Morales

10 Feb 2020

Please follow the instructions for reading this poem: 1. Imagine a cage. Any cage, of any size. 2. Love the cage. The cage is your friend.