You Are a Spider by T.C. Kemper
You are a spider, and you are beautiful. You were born to be admired. Your legs are long and lean, like the thin branches waving breezily...
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The First Step by Natalie Schriefer
From a snowbank I watched the squirrel run. It was dusk, the worst of the snow finally over, and the squirrel bounded across the path,...
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Selfie Becoming a Sea Turtle by Edie Meade
Edie Meade is a writer and artist in Huntington, West Virginia. Recent work can be found in (mac)ro(mic), Atlas & Alice, The Normal...
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07:15 Fast Local by Hema Nataraju
At this time, the middle-aged commuter should be on the 07:15 fast local train. Instead, he’s lying face down on the road outside the...
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Soundtracking by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of two poetry collections: Ubasute, which won the 2020 Slapering Hol...
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Trestle / Trespass by Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Saunders is the author of Self-Portrait with Housewife (Tebot Bach, 2019) and a Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Orison Anthology...
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Behind Plate Glass by Annette Sisson
Annette Sisson lives and teaches in Nashville, TN. Her poems can be found in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Rust and...
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Karmic by Matthew Burnside
Matthew Burnside is the author of Wiki of Infinite Sorrows and Postludes (both from KERNPUNKT) as well as forthcoming collections...
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becoming by Varun U. Shetty
Varun U. Shetty is a writer and critical care physician. He grew up in Mumbai and lives with his partners in Shaker Heights, Ohio. His...
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If/Then by Paul Jaskunas
Paul Jaskunas is the author of the novel HIDDEN, which won the Friends of American Writers Award and has been published widely in the UK...
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It Wants A Church Bell by Isa Pickett
Isa Pickett is a writer, musician, and library volunteer. They currently work in early literacy and urban greening. In 2021, they made...
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Aunt Mary by Roger D'Agostin
“Aunt Mary has enough bras.” Mom says this every day since we moved her sister, my Aunt Mary, into an assisted living facility. “I don’t...
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The Melancholy of Mundane by Nick Black
Nick Black manages a couple of libraries in London. His writing has been published in lit mags including Okay Donkey, Lost Balloon,...
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The Other Shoe by Julie McNeely-Kirwan
"Visitors! We're having visitors!" My tone was meant to be cheerful, but achieved something closer to sarcasm. Mother did not appear to...
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A Shared Interest by Patrick Malka
I wrote a story about a dystopian future in which nations no longer exist, only marauding groups that travel the land with no regard for...
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An Understory by Andrew Walker
Trying to hold himself together, Dru decided that he would take a walk to the park to write a short poem about a tree. You see, Dru never...
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El Tejido by Judd Hess
Judd Hess holds a BA from the University of California, Irvine and both an MFA and an MA from Chapman University. He has won the Fugue...
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Concrete Nocturne by Adrian Dallas Frandle
Adrian Dallas Frandle (they/he) is a queer fish who writes poems to and for the world about its future. They are Poetry Acquisitions...
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Prom Date by Sudha Balagopal
Let's say I'm shivering outside the school on a 100-degree day. Let's say my body's ice-cold because my daughter's trapped inside her...
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Time Away by Jen Knox
I am cold beneath my blanketlike coat as we traverse winding Ohio roads after the first snow. My husband drives fast below a winter sky...
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