Stories tagged poetry

Dollhouse

by Paul McQuade, Oct 12, 2011
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So seamlessly undone. If I had genitals I might care. But I am smooth and featureless as the world down there.

dancers: degas

by Jerry Ratch, Oct 12, 2011
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What we see is the aspiration of flesh to beauty not the fact, which may be ugly. That the light pours down on them, as they wait in the wings to go on stage. The cool and warm pastels separating on their flesh. Green and white above, warm red a

A Way of Place

by Jill Chan, Oct 15, 2011
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There are people walking, not knowing where they are, a way to peace is just that-- a place to go.

Psych Interview with a Rape Victim

by Matthew A. Hamilton, Oct 17, 2011
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I was cleaning when the door bell rang. I let him in. I ran for the phone. He caught me, shoved me to the floor. Have they arrested him? He jumped on top of me, pinned my arms behind my back, then something strange, he blindfolded me. He tore at my blouse, lifted…

Treading Water

by Chad Smith, Oct 17, 2011
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I can tread water like this for months maybe longer

Urge for Going

by Sam Rasnake, Nov 11, 2011
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an ache of cold much older than rocks

Omen. Seduction. Reunion. – the Poet’s Commentary for Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu monogatari

by Sam Rasnake, Oct 21, 2011
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So the story begins

Hiding inside a dream, the gray morning, the past

by Joe Sullivan, Oct 20, 2011
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Three Stanzas for My Father

by Sam Rasnake, Oct 20, 2011
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the wobble in your voice

On Unpredictability

by Jill Chan, Oct 21, 2011
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All that have changed in me, I give to you now.

The Bass-Ackwards Guillotine

by Jerry Ratch, Oct 22, 2011
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The hell with beheading people I’m inventing the Be-Assing Machine for people who are just plain big asses This way they won’t be able to sit down anywhere If they do they will just fall through a big dark hole similar to their own big assho

Leo Crush Disguised As Gemini

by Misti Rainwater-Lites, Oct 23, 2011
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I consoled myself with my camera. I went crazy with the clicking.

Need

by Bill Yarrow, Dec 28, 2011
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I knew I needed to visit a beach / made entirely of sharks’ teeth

A Piece of Him

by Bill Yarrow, Mar 30, 2012
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the / future is now incomplete

She Waited for Him

by Bill Yarrow, Jan 04, 2012
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what smells like love may not be love at all