by Michael Shoemaker
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Sunset’s Butterfly
Read More »by Gabriel Langston
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ββββIt’s quiet as the sun rises
the morning after.
I’m sitting by the shore,
waiting, holding my breath
and an old branch.
The bark turns to dust in my hands.
by Molly Kathryn Fisher
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we sniffed the sharpie first. sniffed and snuffled and snickered i think i do feel a bit of something you guys because tina m. said the red sharpieβd take us somewhere over the motherfucking rainbow.
dizzy,
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by Gabriel Graham Piessens
Iβve been thinking about what life isRead More »
What the point really is,
And Iβve come to the conclusion
That it is this: experience.
by Erin Schallmoser
sometimes you wake up in the morning and all you can know is the dark magic of still being aliveRead More »
by Duane Anderson
Itβs laundromat time, washing the winter coats,Read More »
my attempt at washing winter away
How do you keep going despite the heaviness of the world?
This month, we warmly invite you to send us your thoughts, in the form of writing or visual art or basically anything, on the theme of hope.
As usual, our prompts are only here to help inspire you and don’t have an expiration date, so feel free to join anytime within the open windows of our call for submissions.
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by K Weber
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A month ago my hand was a fist
and then it slowly opened and wrote poems.
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It slowly opened like a morning glory
morning; briefly invited everyone to look
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by Alex Gibson
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Red as an axe-wound gouge to the heart
Red as the bloodshed too soon to depart
Red as the smouldering left on pale flesh
Red as the raw ire choking veiled breath
Red as the razor lain still by the tub
Red as the rosary drowning in blood
Red as the knuckles of wallpaper white
Red as the bathroomβs shattered pull-light
Red as the flash of a chamberβs last blow
Red as the ink on emergency room notes.