By William Butler Yeats
I I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so. Maybe at last being...
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- By William Butler YeatsI My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, crumbling...
- By William Butler Yeats'Because I am mad about women I am mad about the hills,' Said that wild old wicked man Who travels where...
- By Jalynn Harrisit never occurred to me, this virus on the pout of my thumb, multiplying as sheep scat; a cluster of...
- By Julia FiedorczukFrom within my bodily singularityI play at sending out gentle sunbeams.I don't believe in myself, but...
- By Sylvia ChanI want to begin this poem with two stories:1. In 1984, my mother was pulled over for speeding in a rural...
- By Tilsa OttaOdio la violenciaAsí sea hermosa y modernaLe temo a la cienciaCuando hace realidad mis peores sueñosObservo...
- By Cheryl ClarkeA Mass is something you say on Good Friday, after we walk the Stations for the last time. The radiologist will tell me the...
- By Felicia ZamoraI think about division. How we splice & splice & splice, mentally & anatomically. A cell becomes cells...
- By Rickey LaurentiisWhy doubt I’d grow breasts a ‘Natural’ way? Am I not ‘Real’ Flesh? Am I not enworthied sway of that Biology? Not...
- By Felicia ZamoraWhere wor{l}d & the tangible object of that wor{l}d collide. My brain thinks traces & again, Singh’s words at ...
- By Tilsa OttaI hate violenceEven if it’s beautiful and modern I fear scienceWhen it makes my worst dreams come trueI...
- By CAConrad“I’m here for the show” the man said looking under Frank's shirt for the door “I’m no theater” Frank...
- By CAConrad
the sign read
HARMACY after
Frank shot
the P out - By CAConradFrank’s sister grew long blue feathers she said it was worse than cutting teeth she spent a month screaming...
- By Liz HarmsBeneath me, a bright pool of blood like the puddle of hardened sugar around a candied apple. The color...
- By Karyna McGlynn& watch Kevin Bacon conjure fake tears in a Real Hallway & I am Real Tears in a fake hallway & “Procreation...
- By Paisley RekdalHow horrible it is, how horrible that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped with a fly inside his...
- By Carlina Duanin the waiting room, I watched women snaprubber bands around their wrists, runningtheir hands through...
- By Cyrus CassellsMy friend is by no means Dracula or a werewolf, but the full moon’s mostly lawless beauty has never ...