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CHOKE
By Oliver Carmichael Some mornings I wake to find his hands at the bottom of my bed, tapping fingertips, cracking knuckles. Some mornings...
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LOST CIVILISATION | BUTTERFLY
By N J Delmas They left me on the mountain top. Offerings laid at my frozen feet. A butterfly in a transparent case, coloured wings...
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SOUVENIR
By Mark Totterdell There’s a briny tang of rock samphire, a slight fragrance of sweet fennel, and I can taste the sea beet’s bitterness...
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SOMETHING ABOUT A WOUND LEARNING TO FEED
By Yago Wasn’t it at a bus stop or something where someone had used a white board marker to write out a prophecy about evil the...
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CUT WORSHIP
By Oscar Rodriguez I find myself to be the only one in cut worship. The first one to realize the whip slashed my wrists. They...
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NEGATIVE
By Rachel McBride My heart flutters like a fish out of water, trying to assimilate to newfound air. I wait for the faint plus sign to...
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EVERYDAY THINGS
By Wineharp Death, ageing and grieving Bugs, warts and heaving ...
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YOU STOLE MY MUSE
By F.J. Thomas You broke my heart and stole my muse The worst thing you could steal For a poet and a writer Who writes from how they...
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SECONDARY DROWNING
By Sujatha Menon I swam in a dress made from algae and gold, trailed a veil spun from sunlight grief tied a bow around my waist...
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PAIN
By Lindsay Anne I do not write the works of joy that you search for when your heart is full of joy and you want to find someone else who...
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BLEEDING BANQUETS
By Victoria Reed With a gooey apologetic smile, you gesture to The duplicitous feast you have laid out for me. It seems to stretch for an...
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IN THIS MOMENT
By Sean Tate Standing at the edge of the lake, You sink down, ankle deep, toes grasping. Black soil oozes, hugs, and holds— a wet and...
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A DIAGRAM IN CHALK (IN MEMORY OF DANOLD CROWHURST)
By Jonty Pennington-Twist God and Poseidon; Neither give me peace. How can I mend this circuitry Amid these insect whispers? And then,...
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DRIVING HOME FOR THE NEW YEAR
By Mary Mulholland The journey back is full of metaphor: too much traffic, deep wintertime, and twelve hours of shared driving, too tired...
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MOVING ON.
By Lynsey Balloch Our beloved house has been snug and warm, For well over thirteen years, Quiet road, spotless windows, And a blooming...
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DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
By Natasha Tabani Quod fuimus, estis; quod sumus, eritis That man of bones, again he comes calling - it's hard to resist those...
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GODS LIE
By Nicholas Shields amongst the husks heart god’s creation there is hatred. a vast emptiness now with tendrils of crimson that stretch...
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PERSEPHONE PINES FOR STOCKHOLM
By Paris Rosemont She bunkers down for the long night ahead, when you— like the sun swallowed by shadow slink into your neutered...
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STRIATIONS OF A SNOW ANGEL
By Vincent De Souza I am craziness. In a restroom mausoleum, self-love destructs, a private harming pit. I slow on floated steps, swim...
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RAVEN'S BAY
By Molly Knight-Smith To forge a path in this grey scene Is to find the order in chaos. Ambivalent frenzy, good and bad, To give and...
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