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Selkies by Emma Wells
Seductive seal skin is my coat – zippered for ease of removal; I slip in and out of worlds both human and mystical praying that one day my skin knots to backbone, binds as spines to published pages completing the bleary badge of a true, life-worn selkie: for I am no myth, nor fairytale fancy.
Displacement Activity by Emma Lee
A pebble dropped will displace its own volume of water. Observers, concerned only with measuring volume, don’t care about the separated water or the guilt of the pebble.
Talking about the weather by Myrna Al-Tajuri
…eyes on my skin, small hellos and howeyas in smoking areas and bathroom queues / imagined passengers in passing cars feel like scalpel incisions – the flaying of a beast. I crumple into nothing under floodlights of sight.
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Selected Poems by Stephen Barile
Tehachapi Earthquake of 1952 Earthquake!my mother yelled when the bed moved across the roomjust before 5 a.m., July 21, 1952. She raninto the...
Watchers by Özge Lena
Watchers They knew, but they preferred to donothing other than watching until theybecame the reckless watchers of the planet,buying, selling,...
Outside the Lines by Amanda Coleman White
There’s no gender in the box,colors aren’t boys or girlsI tell my three-year-oldwho refuses to take the pink crayon,plump hand a resistant fist. I...
Life is what you make it and Home Fires by Abigail Ottley
/ Nana said / she knew a thing or two about living / born at the fag end of the century / into just-above poverty / she walked a mile to church / three times every Sunday / for the salvation of her six- year-old soul
Thank You for Coming to My TED Talk by Sadie Maskery
On death.