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Simile Free

10.26.17 Posted in today's words by

Elisabeth Horan lives and writes in Vermont. Simile Free By Elisabeth Horan I am the lady with quills in her skin. I repel anyone who attempts to come in. They don’t prick like anything. I have a scent worse than skunk— My life, it makes me want to jump! It doesn’t smell like anything. In […]


smiles of lyrical suns

10.25.17 Posted in today's words by

Peter Magliocco lives and writes in Las Vegas, Nevada. smiles of lyrical suns By Peter Magliocco Does it roll into you, the musical vibe from nowhere inculcating us with sweet sounds until our minds remember her with the first dream of beauty holding forth throughout the breadth of time: walk with me beyond banal wend […]


Poem

10.24.17 Posted in today's words by

Thomas Locicero’s most recent poem to appear here was “Belated Elegy” (September 2017) Poem By Thomas Locicero You see a white flag of paper, blank and empty as an anti-sky. You may see my head lift quixotically and then the reining in of thoughts. You may see me bartering with the air: a deep breath for […]


Block (Writers)

10.23.17 Posted in today's words by

Nick Hawkins’ most recent poem to appear here was Mark’s Poem (February 2017) Block (Writers) By Nick Hawkins Today has been one of those ‘fall down a hole days’ steeped in woe walls getting tighter no ladders, no light and drowning in solitude. Perhaps no way out or no way in . . . . . . […]


Wild from the cold each splash

10.22.17 Posted in today's words by

Simon Perchik’s most recent poem to appear here was “Struggling against more turbulence” (September 2017) Wild from the cold each splash is already driftwood and though you lean into the sink each single cup anchors on its own needs to stay in the center the way every statue is filled with stones, smells from flowers and […]


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