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Sunday

08.21.16 Posted in today's words by

Cary Lynne’s most recent poem to appear here was “humour me . . . no?” (July 2016)  Sunday By Cary Lynne Just at that moment the message machine came on and Regina’s voice said chicken’s in the oven and dinner’s at 3. I had a commitment I had forgotten I removed the gun from my mouth […]


Tangled Web

08.20.16 Posted in today's words by

Kathryn Tate Jacoby’s most recent poem to appear here was “Unexpected Exemplar” (January 2015)  Tangled Web By Kathryn Tate Jacoby No escape from life’s spider web…   countless Daedalean criss-crossing strands ensure the web is spun the weave, the warp, wrenched tight distractions and disturbances… staving any possibility of peace the sweetness the seduction  ensepulcher  preoccupations and […]


Insomnia

08.19.16 Posted in today's words by

Nate Maxson’s most recent poem to appear here was “Corona/Fugue” (July 2016)  Insomnia By Nate Maxson Blue button on the close machine, lights down to suggestion Harp strings dangling, nerve endings from the ceiling: after a while you forget they’re around After a long while you might even forget there are walls in the first place […]


Pusillanimity

08.18.16 Posted in today's words by

Pusillanimity By Brian Eichenlaub Now I understand and have for years but am too much a coward to admit it or live it. So, I lust after lust knowing I can have neither it nor passion because I am afraid afraid to reach my hand up toward the face of God and pluck the ripe […]


Danger Eyes

08.17.16 Posted in today's words by

Danger Eyes By Laura Lee You collided with my life like a train into a wayward car— except maybe I was the train, and you were the car. A 1980s muscle car, the red paint chipping away, the metal frothed with rust, but your bass still pumped; your rims shone. Your eyes oozed danger; your […]


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