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Promise Land Spoils

06.25.18 Posted in today's words by

Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was “Right to Forward” (May 2018).  Promise Land Spoils By Steven Minchin once we were inside Jericho we missed the walls and kept marching around admitting our distaste for milk and battling Honey all those thoughts gone and back then again again those thoughts back then when […]


I love a man

06.24.18 Posted in today's words by

Andrea Varga’s most recent poem to appear here was “Distraction” (April 2018). I love a man By Andrea Varga I love a man. I love the words that cascade from his mouth like rabbits from a magician’s hat. The blackness of his hair that reminds me of the times I’m mad. The dark eyes that […]


Corpses

06.23.18 Posted in today's words by

Patrick Theron Erickson’s most recent poem to appear here was “All That Glitters” (May 2018). Corpses By Patrick Theron Erickson Flowers are for stiffs and for stuff shirts who stiff others who have lapels to fill Flowers fill the bill When the ground opens beneath them it’s the undertaker who meets them halfway close-fisted  for […]


The Flake

06.22.18 Posted in today's words by

Brianna Katsuda’s most recent poem to appear here was “Bearer of Bad News” (April 2018). The Flake By Brianna Katsuda I should have texted you before that I was going to be late Please forgive me but I was a busy bee eating kettle corn while watching a movie instead of checking the time we […]


Shoemaker

06.21.18 Posted in today's words by

Babatunde Fagbayibo lives and writes in Pretoria, South Africa. Shoemaker By Babatunde Fagbayibo Shoemaker, please make me an elegantly looking shoe, one that draws awe tinged admiration towards me, my steps. My shoe size? I don’t think that matters. Rather look at my head, listen to the silence of its restless motion: They say only the […]


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