Stories tagged prose-poem

#careertipsforgirls - Farrah Abraham

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Let the knife remind your body what it used to be.

Night Moves

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The dogs are restless without your body to press against.

Palm-Sized Woman

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You filled your bag with rolls of film about to expire. The planks of the boardwalk were dusted in sand, a cold wind blew off the ocean, the approaching fall. You said you preferred people in your photographs. The Mexican boys selling rosaries from a backpack. The old women…

Small Things

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One of your roommates called to say your apartment was infested. You'd been staying with me in Brooklyn and hadn't gone home in weeks, but now you needed my help to remove furniture, move boxes of photo negatives, before the exterminator came to spray. I'd only ever been to…

Breaking in Print

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After all this time, she still has painful things to say to him.

Twisted Roads

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A woman and a stranger wheel through an ancient stone maze. The arches are familiar. Feeling lost is familiar. The stranger knows his intravenous glance circuits the gears of her heart. Her pulse opens and shuts its indigo eyes. Now he is a message in the base of her…

Eleventh Hour, Day, Etc.

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Incoming leaflets beg us to surrender.

Eleventh Hour, Day, Etc.

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Incoming leaflets beg us to surrender.

Paradise

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From the rumple of pre-dawn Queens, sure South on 95, to almost Savannah by dark; still cold, but we’re full of what’s coming:

Plight of the Injured

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It's raining starfish amputees. Dear Distraction, the closest weapon of convenience, please explain the vintage Zorro masks and acrylic hair attachments in unnatural colors.

Three Bedrooms in New Jersey

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After my father moved in with his girlfriend, my mother sold the split-level and rented a two-bedroom in an apartment complex rife with divorced mothers and the under-employed.

They Say You Finally Have to Forgive Everything

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My uniformed father's smile resembles the Mona Lisa's, as inscrutable to me as ever...

The Abstracted Man

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The abstracted man lacks an inside. He is a body. A shell. An exterior that encompasses nothing.The abstracted man yearns to fill himself with adjectives. He lumbers through streets. No adjectives fit. He finds adjectives where we discard them. He carries them in his…

On the Dying

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the great and terrible sigh of silence

On the Dying

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the great and terrible sigh of silence