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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineEileen

    By Olive Franklin
    Loved you since I was little, on the playground break-time
    -brawled with you and your mismatched cuffs…
  • Poem
    By Richard Blanco
    After my third shot of tequila / chased by a lime
    sour as my rant: fuck this-fuck that-fuck them-fuck…
  • Poem
    By Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    This love dares not speak its name
    in some states
    until your eyes say it
    on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Garth Greenwell on shame, small acts of love, and the patch of snow inside us.
  • Poem
    By Jake Skeets
    Clouds in his throat,
    six months' worth.
    He bodies into me
    half cosmos, half coyote.
    We become night
    on Bread…
  • Poem

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    Leandra Michaels

    By Brandon Young
    My father said to me once            your only choices are            the factories. Oil stains or
    the selfsame bruises.            No…
  • Poem

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    Kimberley Johnson

    By Brandon Young
    Oh, don’t worry, we will let           our hair down tonight—
    but first we must remember           on this stage, the queen…
  • Poem
    By Alexis De Veaux
    I pray for us
    as evening  glides over
    implore the gods
    pray for us         pray
    for this breathing
    planet the…
  • Poem

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    the black dykes at 40

    By R. Erica Doyle
    letting  the words fly like smoke uncurling from our mouths
    we lie in bed with dykes ten years our junior…
  • Poem
    By K. Iver
    At my beloved’s burial,
    I can’t see his body.

    Only carnations. I hear
    your name and my beloved’s

    in the …
  • Poem

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    His Own Apollo

    By Cyrus Cassells
    My friend is by no means Dracula or a werewolf,
    but the full moon’s mostly lawless beauty

    has never…
  • Poem

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    One by One

    By Melvin Dixon
    The children in the life:
    Another telephone call. Another man gone.
    How many pages are left in my diary…
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