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Feed My People (The Toxicology Prayer) by Cedric Tillman published in RHINO (won 2nd prize in the 2021 Editor's Prize contest) Father we...

Daughter Mined With Mercury by Shagufta Mulla published in Blood Orange Review, 2021 (Contest Winner) You painted me in shadowy stripes...

September Tomatoes by Karina Borowicz published in Ecotone, Issue 15 The whiskey stink of rot has settled in the garden, and a burst of...

My Sex Life by Diane Seuss published in Rattle, #16, Winter 2001: Tribute to Boomer Girls Having a threesome with Jack Daniels and Billie...

Kia Writes the Microwaves by Jeremy Downes Kia writes the microwaves sizzling yesterday’s browned grief; Kia reads the manuals, finds the...

Same Wording: English Spelling vs. Chinese Syntax by Yuan Changming published in The HitchLit Review, Vol 3, Issue 2, Autumn 2020 钱是没有问题...

Delphiniums in a Window Box by Dean Young (1955-2022) Every sunrise, sometimes strangers’ eyes. Not necessarily swans, even crows, even...

published in Cordella Magazine, Issue 7 What I Wanted by Margaret Chula All my life, I wanted to ride bareback on a tiger through the...

Love Letter to a Dead Body by Jake Skeets published in Boston Review, 2018 we lay each other down in the burr and sage bottles jangle us...

Forget-Me-Nots by Megan Merchant published in Breakwater, Issue 23 Today, my mother forgot the word for bathroom while she was in one....

Marry Me by Lindsey Webb; published in Jellyfish Magazine, 2015 I am like a flower that won't stop opening and closing. I scare all the...

The Sciences Sing a Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth published in his book, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 Physics...

California Gestalt by Jessica Yuan published in New Delta Review, Issue 11.2 How small the rains that feed that city, that settle its...

Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes Las casitas near the gray cannery, nestled amid wild abrazos of climbing roses and man-high red...

A Little Song by Amy Lowell When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night...

Tiny Ghost Bundle by Bridget Clawson published in Hobo Camp Review, Winter Issue # 33 -- Featuring a poetry tribute to Tom Petty Do you...

In Praise of Okra by January Gill O'Neil published in her 2009 book, Underlife (CavanKerry Press) No one believes in you like I do. I sit...

Lower East Side Brucha by Rachel Trousdale published in you are here, 2013 Blessed art thou, Lord our God, king of the universe, who...

The Reemergence Of The Noose by Patricia Smith published in Asheville Poetry Review, Volume 15, Issue 1 Some lamp sputters its dusty...

Deathly by Rodney Jones published in his book, Imaginary Logic (2011, Houghton Miffllin) I am alone, driving through St. Louis, listening...