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introducing the body  size thirty-four B tits, forty-four round hips slim twenty-nine-inch waist  thick thighs I used to once hate  a gap so spaced that words fly out of it a forehead so big you could play chess on it  … Read More

by Deity on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025

Aubade for a Night Twitter

All these voids

meeting in the middle feels

like an answer, so I keep
writing. For a night

by Rachel Stone on October 2, 2016

Teeth

He’s quiet, sleeping almost, naked and thin on the bed. I could leave and he wouldn’t notice, mouth open to the dark gun of his throat, teeth apart.

by Isabella Grabski on August 20, 2017August 20, 2017

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

A Good Morning

“She left her feet behind in bed, tucking them in/like children.”

by Lara Katz on April 18, 2021April 26, 2021

Edison by Train Window

“Bread lying open face on the lightly dented
plastic, white table, the one you 
always see at bake sales.”

by Zach Cohen on October 8, 2017November 13, 2017

After zooming out

After zooming out this afternoon    that held focused possibilities like a hand reaching into the backlit arteries of a bokeh   I filtered my reflections through your shutter and tore off Fuji film rolls from your skin   still … Read More

by Wendy Wang on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

Poem for Tim Faust, who said that poems shouldn’t be about flowers

This poem not about flowers just goes to show how far we’ve come since the days when people could practically not think without a daffodil, when in poetry a rose was not yet just a rose but always stood for … Read More

by Anonymous on April 10, 2016April 9, 2016

Epilogue

In August, you were real and unreal.  Lying on the floor in sticky heat, I wrote lines to you in my head, Crossed them out.   As summer slipped I sensed the shape of you in fever dreams. I told … Read More

by Sofia Cipriano on November 8, 2025

On Everlasting

She sits a widowed star beyond the rest, And whispers of the final kiss. Entrances souls who chance to look With promise of eternal bliss.   She glared in through the eyes, and saw We lack it in our minds, … Read More

by Clara Wilson-Hawken on February 14, 2013March 22, 2013

The Launching of the Spittle

An Account of a Memorable Scene from the VH1 Reality Show Flavor of Love in the Heroi-Comical Style of Alexan- der Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”.

by Jessica Welsh on May 23, 2012March 17, 2013

Cost-Benefit Analysis, 2013

I am to have this gold when you die. To buy ink for poems crumpled on the carpet purchased with your cancer. You’ll make nothing as a writer. But my materials are cheap. Each verse I write about you merely … Read More

by Isabel Henderson on February 14, 2016


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