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Houston: The Satellite Bar, Wednesday, 1:13 a.m. By JP Allen

April 17, 2018

The city is a two-headed lizard scaled with private parking, the mist is full of drones, particulates

and used blue gloves—

but here, may we get super SUPER weird.

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In Poetry Tags JP Allen, Poetry, Houston: The Satellite Bar
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Fix By Sage Curtis

April 17, 2018

I stich pills with gin,

think in pink things,

pinch sticky skin if his Irish shirt clings right.

It’ll fix my mind.

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In Poetry Tags Sage Curtis, Fix, Poetry
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Fellowship Application by Joseph Rios

December 1, 2017

His other hand enters my space with fingers out
like he’s flying or the birds are flying or we’re flying or the truck is
flying; we’re birds now and I still can’t get this shit lit.

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In Poetry, Print Tags joseph rios, fellowship application, poetry, 2017 fall vol. 10 issue 2
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How Briefly the Body by Chelsea Dingman

October 19, 2017

How briefly the body is a story
where everything matters,

even its name.

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In Poetry Tags Chelsea Dingman, Poetry, How Briefly the Body
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Two Poems by Sasha Pimentel

September 30, 2017

A man outside a café is putting his gloves on slowly, tugging
the leather over his wrist, and he is, perhaps, waiting for me
to put my knife and fork down, to come out from behind

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In Poetry Tags Sasha Pimentel, Poetry, Tuesday Night in Montparnasse, Old Beds and Hollywood
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Wishing that There was Another World that Isn’t by John Gosslee

February 17, 2017

This is the apocalypse,

watching the life of a fly

aware of itself, in a jar.

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In Poetry Tags John Gosslee, Poetry, Wishing that There was Another World that Isn't
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Mae Young Has Always Been the Heel by W. Todd Kaneko

February 2, 2017

Screw that—I’ve never seen a woman

I couldn’t lick, never a man I couldn’t

hammerlock and stomp into the canvas.

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In Poetry Tags W Todd Kaneko, Poetry, Mae Young Has Always Been the Heel
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The Coltrane Substitution (Naima) by Michelle R. Smith

June 26, 2016

But their marriages
Must not be menial.

They must be art—
Ballads of rich, wrenching chords.

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In Poetry Tags Michelle R. Smith, Poetry, The Coltrane Substitution
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Letters to the Editor Regarding the Death of Public Discourse by Sara Biggs Chaney

May 5, 2016

You say there are ashes in the water. I say if you want my new sprinkler system, why don’t you come and take it from my cold, dead hands.

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In Poetry Tags Sara Biggs Chaney, Poetry, Letters to the Editor, The Death of Public Discourse, Letters to the Editor Regarding the Death of Public Discourse
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Two Poems by Heather Lang

March 15, 2016

here’s a lastingness / of to crease and an ambiguity / of to fold.

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In Poetry Tags Heather Lang, Poetry, To Soften, The Origin of the World
Two Poems by Rachel Inez Lane

Two Poems by Rachel Inez Marshall

January 15, 2016

I read someone stole a frieze from Santa Croce

over the weekend. And given my sense of Florence

or elsewhere is less than impressive, I thought maybe

you and the thief may have passed on the street.

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In Poetry Tags Rachel Inez Marshall, Poetry, Dear Bat Boy, Meanwhile in Florence
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Two Poems by Katrin Tschirgi

December 8, 2015

I'm tired of being cute. On Tuesday,

I wore nothing but an apron and dismembered

an orange as though it were an oyster

or a man.

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In Poetry Tags Katrin Tschirgi, Poetry, Saint Sin, Catch & Release
Felicia Zamora

Three Poems by Felicia Zamora

December 3, 2015

Fingers to keyboard, cyber-minded

when the photo hits your inbox—

Hexagons burnt into wood: a pattern

innately inside the bee, graffiti-ed

by human hands.

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In Poetry Tags Felicia Zamora, Poetry, Picture of the Hive, Alone at the Lake, In Hush
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Four Poems by Nathalie Handal

December 1, 2015

I asked you not to hurt me
the way history did

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In Poetry, Print Tags Nathalie Handal, 2015 fall vol. 8 issue 2
Annie Woodford

Three Poems by Annie Woodford

November 19, 2015

Prisms spin in the hardwood floor.

My daughter glides and chops, skate-shod,

Her little girl legs a perfection of knees and narrow thighs.

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In Poetry Tags Annie Woodford, Poetry, Errancy, 110 Beats, Wide Enough Spaces
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Three Poems by Dahlia Seroussi

October 22, 2015

My mother’s womb

was a kiln

and it burned me.

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In Poetry Tags Dahlia Seroussi, Poetry, Warning, Time Lapse, Delicate Cycle
Priscilla Wathington

Four Poems by Priscilla Wathington

September 24, 2015

”I was a ghost in a strawberry field for five years,” he says.

“The ghosts were plentiful, ‘la fruta

del diablo,’ as they called it, also--

faakiha ash-Shaytan.”

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In Poetry Tags Priscilla Wathington, Poetry, Ghost Crop, Noise Reduction, After Diaspora, Afternoon Chat
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Three Poems By Laura Wetherington

August 26, 2015

Soft solid visage, followed by reflection.

If only each cavity knew oblivion.

The eye, preceded mostly by footwork,

waves into pain. The right to feel the lights.

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In Poetry Tags Laura Wetherington, Poetry, The mirror without costume, Antecedent, There must be some other way
Melissa Stein

Two Poems by by Melissa Stein

July 16, 2015

Everything served up / on a silver charger. / Even the air conditioning, / even the sink fixtures / hold the peculiar/ inevitability of flawless / design.

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In Poetry Tags Melissa Stein, Chrysler Building, Rapture, Poetry
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Two Poems by D.M. Aderibigbe

July 2, 2015

My mother's purse rang,

Her hand to her ear:

My father's voice,

A threatening thunder.

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In Poetry Tags D.M. Aderibigbe, Poetry, To Be My Father, Mirror
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