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Cinquains

__Rooms Full of Pottery Make Me Want to Smash Things__

Nervous,
(as I am in
china shops,) when you place
your hand on my back, saying, “I
am Here.”

by Margaret Sullivan on October 13, 2010March 22, 2013

Untitled

As soon as the words strolled
Across the doctor’s lips,
She realized the cold waste –

by Pulane Mpotokwane Mpotokwane on December 10, 2009March 17, 2013

In Heat

“my body / remembering / it exists, unmoored, / metamorphosing, moistening / peeling lips.”

by Lara Katz on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

Tame

I want

by Arielle Davidoff on November 14, 2012March 17, 2013

A Few Thoughts on Zayn Malik

“On the long last day of his life, the Buddha sat perfectly still.”

by Sammy Prentice on February 26, 2017July 20, 2017

A Restaurant in Hayward

Mmm, linoleum floors, my favorite, I think.   It’s 7:30 am, according to the analog clock on the wall, and I’m officially pissed at being up this early  for my driver’s license exam.   “Window 10 is OPEN!” an older … Read More

by Aminah Aliui on April 5, 2025

I can see the neighbors

from here, leaning out       beyond their yard. They are fence-prone and rubber-necked. Looking in, maybe. I sense a vulturish curiosity and sink back.   Meanwhile, my dad has fallen asleep on the couch.   He is darker … Read More

by Crystal Liu on August 10, 2016

Lazarus Sleeps

the clacking of his thoughts sound like the anxious machinery of a typewriter, ribbon unspooling into ink-laden pages hammered by shakespeare’s thousand sweatshop monkeys he dreams he just woke up to find his mouth open and full of flies: their … Read More

by Isabella Grabski on February 21, 2016February 21, 2016

Hauntings (Woman, Boy, Body)

A Haunting (Woman, Body) His death came first as an aching in her molars, then a numbness in her sinuses, then, finally, a filling up of her dreams with something warm and sharp and spit-pink. A room full of flowers, … Read More

by Matt Brailas on September 28, 2011March 22, 2013

After throwing your cigarettes out

I took a bus home to your nightly reenactments, the ones performed before you ever hid your lighters or begged for air. My blood’ll sort it out, you promised, ignoring London and your heredity, all those veils of ash and … Read More

by Nicolette D’Angelo on February 21, 2016February 25, 2016

Standstill

“and so came this sudden invention: /
Fourth-of-July firecrackers /
dipped in sour wine”

by Christien Ayers on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020

in the morning, in the light

Breath-poem.

by Joel Newberger on November 7, 2012March 22, 2013


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