She’s a serious woman, afraid of falling,
always straightening herself for other people.
-THURSDAY AFTER COYOTE SONG by Nicci Mechler on the Rose Red Review website.
She’s a serious woman, afraid of falling,
always straightening herself for other people.
-THURSDAY AFTER COYOTE SONG by Nicci Mechler on the Rose Red Review website.
And the stench of drugstore
Popcorn, its second perfume
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Mingling with what my mother wore
As she shoveled out
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The bags like spent carnival fortunes.
-Radium City by Dennis Hinrichsen on the Solstice Lit Mag.
your lies knit and pulled my hair,
left wispy handfuls limp in fists
poised like boxers’ gloves.
-Verbal Abuse by Kelsey O’Connell on The Fem website.
to the
drunk
man
-I Haven’t Been Sleeping Much Lately by Ellery Harvey on the Pathos Lit Mag website.
Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again
-What resembles the grave but isn’t by Anne Boyer on her website.
21. Do you accept religious verse about ham sandwiches?
22. Do you accept rhyming verse about ham sandwiches?
-Frequently Asked Questions About Ham Sandwich Poems by Shane Allison on the Juked website.
I am four years old, I am not a boy,
I am my father’s only child, and he is coaching me to kill.
-The Worst by Lauren Henley on the 3am Magazine website.
He holds the camera-phone at arm’s length to take the selfie.
A breeze kicks up, the leaves turn, and the air is crystal clear.
-Dance by James Cervantes on the Concis website.
giving thanks for a parboiled and time-beaten, big-mouth cowboy.
-An American Thanksgiving In Fiji by Nick Ravo on the Hypertext Magazine website.
It is the morning of the world
I want to tell you about,
my world of east Tennessee red clay
and crabgrass in its spiky rosette patches,
-Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1947 by Robin Chapman on the Proximity Magazine website.