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msg 2 my ghost

ghost,

im chasing u round the attic. u lead me round my attic, over chintzy 50s carpet, circumnavigating staircase well b/c u r scared 4 me—wild ghost chase? but there r many floors & rooms here & our friends r at a party in the next room…

by Samuel Bollen on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

Mr. Poem

Mouth taking the form
around like the moistening apple core
which deforms peculiarly
in the way of these things,

by Conor Gannon on October 13, 2010March 17, 2013

Space

“I’m looking/I’m looking/for a love of space/And for that space to love me”

by Majida Halaweh on July 30, 2018July 29, 2018

How the Dark Howls

“The same desperate anger which buried them there, / Lumbers over the horizon again”

by Henry Wright on November 24, 2019

The son-poem continues

The son-poem continues / by these pastoral lines , / in my ears put / by father , as / words of the mouth of / the poem ‘ s / father , on a short morning / saunter / he set out on alone /

by Joel Newberger on October 12, 2013October 12, 2013

How to Eat Fresh Tunafish

One: Your uncle’s face / Traveling through time.

by Byrd Pinkerton on November 8, 2014November 9, 2014

Song of My Studio

“Most days I whack my shinbone on the coffee table /
When friends come over we drink whiskey and forget the rules of chess”

by Juju Lane on April 25, 2021April 26, 2021

Two Poems

Things you have lost to the wind:

by Matt Brailas on October 12, 2012September 7, 2013

Anatomy of a Bleeding Heart

“The aorta / Is a warzone within my chest / Where I bleed out for the genocide of my ancestors”

by Gina Feliz on June 30, 2020June 30, 2020

Orderliness

I am starting to become unsure about nonsense

by Eliza Mott on April 26, 2015April 26, 2015

Displaced

“To erase the blankness, / masked the cleaner’s sting / with lavender and sage, / found places for my mother’s / good omens”

by Mina Quesen on October 4, 2020October 3, 2020

rpm

she cannot hope for anything better

than what she was on our red rust –

wagon’s wheels grinding as dad pulled us.

by Nathan Eckstein on February 14, 2015February 16, 2015


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