By Mag Gabbert
The effect—for those three hundred years, while the cupid remained hidden—was a kind of silence. Like...
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- By Krista FranklinThe handwriting is on the wall a white smear across the face of the sky a smear of white a white chalk...
- By Krista FranklinIndigo pool, color of the wings of the biggest specimen captured in glass in my second room, that one...
- By Krista FranklinEveryday some brown woman pools into inky blue, a madness that crawls up from the floor of her and flows...
- By Abdulkareem AbdulkareemAll things begin from the spindle, we say—life spun from graces. I grew like rain from rumbles of my...
- By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenSIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy...
- By Mary Jo BangYou once sat on straw mats but clearly it wasn’t enough. It must not have been since you lifted the ...
- By Mary Jo BangI was living a life that was more or less filled with misfiring synapses inside a braincase. They said...
- By Mary Jo BangThat the walls have no texture suggests that we, the angels and I, are perfect. And we are, the way ...
- By Victoria ChangJan.4.2022 A call is just a call. I pick it up. Jan.6.2022 I lift blankets looking for my father. Jan...
- By Anne SextonThe town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot...
- By Elena Karina ByrneBut all dark notes are dismantled there from the middle ear downward. Voyaged mind, cauldron skin. Can...
- By Elena Karina ByrneThe aftermath always happening like an airplane falling, or a man midair falling from a horse, and an...
- By John KeatsThou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian...
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- By Nyla MatukThe woman sits clutching her knees inside a short-necked bottle on a beach, looks up smiling at a mouth...
- By Donald PlattI keep returning to John Constable’s Study of Clouds. Oil on cardboard, six by seven and a half inches, it shows...
- By Ange MlinkoIt is Hermes stepping off his winged sandal. ... I saw the Writing Spider sitting with aplomb Even his caduceus...
- By Keith S. Wilsoni have a red dress and no eyes. i have a dress that is blood red and i have eyes that don’t blink when...
- By Richard GarciaThe faded remains of ancient advertising — captives on parade in native costume. Now the whangam, that...
- By John KinsellaFog day, give us the sun. But the particulate hangover from Stuttgart’s bad days obscures. The weather...