By Corey Van Landingham
was, according to Virgil, always a fickle, unstable thing. Woman. Wyf. Merger of wife and man. To indicate: not-girl. Not...
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- By Samuel GregoireMy delirium is a transformocean Rocking me like the seven thousand waves That brought Wangolo to Ziltik...
- By Adam O. Davis1. If a house is haunted like a radio is haunted If a body is a radio of blood If a body of ghosts hums...
- By H.D.He and I sought together, over the spattered table, rhymes and flowers, gifts for a name. He said, among...
- By H.D.Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens and the sea takes on...
- By H.D.I know not what to do,my mind is reft:is song's gift best?is love's gift loveliest?I know not what to...
- By Aria AberOver Skype, I try to document my mother’s bald-shaved youth—she has a surplus in truths, and science...
- By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
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- By OvidSome are transformed just once And live their whole lives after in that shape. Others have a facility...
- By Matthew ZapruderI think there was a movie once where Frankenstein fell in love with a vampire. A small mummy at first...
- By Ruth AwadDays of rain. The drey outside my window would keel and the wind would plunder. My heart was valent ...
- By Shanta LeeMama birthed me, Papa sold me in the land of weeping willows Traces of sin trail miles across skin, ...
- By Trish Salahi. Dog. The time you take home, the time you take away from home. The insistence, the instance worried...
- By Richie HofmannA dolphin fell in love with me. Probably because of my looks— people always said, What a pretty boy ...
- By Norman Finkelstein# Listen to the children who know their way about the forest and return with stories which the thief...
- By Adam O. DavisOne nick. Two nick- els. Three lic- orice twists before bedtime. Four hours of a leaky faucet. Five ...
- By UnknownHeyla! We have a story about the Spear-Danes, from the old days when they were big and their kings showed...
- By UnknownOft him anhaga are gebideð, metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig geond lagulade longe sceolde hreran...
- By Unknownþat it apertly was apayed for profite þat he feld, and [wrouȝt] buxumly by þe bestes wille in wise as...
- By UnknownLeodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife; willað hy hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð. Ungelic is us...