We are not the only ones trod underfoot
Theirs are not the only mouths
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Opened to sing
Or shut under green umbrellas
-Thirteen Ways of Looking at Malaysia by Anushka Anastasia Solomon on the Asia Literary Review website.
Author Archives: actuallyreadbooks
Geyser by Cat Dixon
The napkins are hills, the saucers
and cups line up, the evergreens.
-Geyser by Cat Dixon on the virtual artists collective website.
If This Is The Elegy For The Fallen St. Christopher by John Pursley III
spacerspacerspacerspacerspacerspacer… if the Santa Maria
Holds true; if God wills it, & the wind is right; if this is the outlet,
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The exit—a door; if we can bomb them all back to the Stone Age,
Start over again & still keep their wallets …
-If this is the Elegy for the Fallen St. Christopher by John Pursley III on the Black Warrior Review website.
Suck Up Your Joy by Aidan Baker
I offer her myself but she declines.
-Suck Up Your Joy by Aidan Baker on the Vestal Review website .
Decorative Knot by TJ O’Donnell
To be or not to be
late to work?
-Decorative Knot By TJ O’Donnell on the Four Ties Lit Review website.
Operation Fertilizer by Sophia Terazawa
every mangrove root, every farmer,
every spray run, every Geneva Protocol,
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every bulging eye on a persimmon head,
every orphan, every generation after that,
-Operation Fertilizer by Sophia Terazawa on the Mud City Journal website.
the bed was a blues lyric, by Patricia Smith
the bed could claim no owner,
no mother, lover or confidant, when it made music
in the clutches of a night it sounded like a left turn
on a flat tire, it sounded
like a pointer finger caught in a crevice, it sounded
like that.
-the bed was a blues lyric, by Patricia Smith on the Gulf Coast Literary Journal website.
Watch Listen Read
Because none of you know what you want follow me by Corey Zeller
Even now, your life bites your death’s lip,
parts its sleeping hair.
-Because none of you know what you want follow me by Corey Zeller on the West Branch Wired website.
