Year: 2024
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‘To Be’ by Sophia Jamali Soufi
Seconds passSeconds do not passWaiting is always a lieEye in eye silenceI review the woundsDoes that mean my share was only a handful of nostalgia and black clouds?Meaningless tearsMeaningless painsmeaningless…
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‘Sign’ by John RC Potter
If I couldI would weara signfor all to see,words of wisdom and wit: Emotionally Closed for the Season and perhaps thatwould protect mefrom those whodesperately crave lovebut cannot fully give it. Author Bio:…
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‘Chubascos, Tios and The Doors’ by Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith
My friend told me this: she named her dog Jim Morrison.Learning this detail I walked home like a spacedout kid. My tios used to play “Light My Fire”all of the…
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‘Private Eye’ by GTimothy Gordon’
Monet is only an eye. But what an eye! -Cézanne- How can you not adore exquisite eye candyexcess splashed over gardens, lilies of all hue,ponds, rivers, the Seine, poplars, haystacks,what’s…
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‘Imagining the Grave of a Poor Poet Laureate’ by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah’
At the death of the poor local poet,laurels came crashing down the aisle;church bells chimed for an early celebration,of a man of letters posted to Heavenin a charity envelope;the poet…
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‘Billboards’ by Thomas Elson
Late one summer morning, he rolled out of a white, twelve-cylinder Jaguar, and, as he slowly raised his head, saw a singular vision – two long tanned legs telescoping from…
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‘True Citrus’ by M F Drummy
after Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange” It is the delusion that comes first, I tell you.Not the wild geraniumsin the untended vale. It is the delusion that germinates,then persists, telling usWe…
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‘Kaffir Lily’ by James Kangas
Not one season of blossomsin all the years since the hothouse.You went with me, I remember. All it comes forth withis this Janus-leafed fountain:broad daggers in layered arcs which soar…
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