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Two Poems by Nathan Graziano

Rel­a­tive to Guns 'N' Ros­es In a box in the base­ment, strewn with cob­webs, I find a pho­to album and the rat­ty blond wig I wore one Hal­loween in col­lege when I dressed as my alter ego, the front man of a … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Barre Daze, poem by Kevin Ridgeway

Don­ald Fagen croons from fifth avenue about hav­ing a tran­sis­tor radio and a large sum of mon­ey to spend as we jet along Main Street in our ragged white Cut­lass Supreme stained with the burn of mud and snow from the … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Hounds, poem by Jessica Wiseman Lawrence

Hounds Hound dogs run off. It’s a sci­en­tif­ic fact that they can phys­i­cal­ly close their ears to the humans who love them and shout “Come back here!” as the dogs go chas­ing some­thing small and quick and run a trail. They get lost. They … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Five Poems by Richard L. Gegick

THE OCEAN Tony’s been a cook here ever since he was placed in the renew­al cen­ter over a decade ago. Twice a GED fail­ure, he can bare­ly read, but knows how to cook a steak, how to work hard, show up on time. His … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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The Mad Farmer's Wife Delivers the Foal, poem by Rita Quillen

It is the turn­ing I most remem­ber: Just anoth­er ordi­nary day I woke and looked out the win­dow. The mare stood with the colt half out of her, Mem­brane still com­plete­ly intact. I ran like a war­rior, butch­er knife in hand Stabbed into … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Two Poems by Tiff Holland

Saltines We was all afraid of that bridge, just ropes and slats, spaces between where the crick came right up at you if you looked down at it, and Bil­ly, that’s what we called him, after the fairy-tale, squat­tin’ under­neath. I … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Sweet and Clear, essay by Terry Barr

I saw her smil­ing at me in K‑Mart, over by the jeans. She had red hair, and no mat­ter which aisle I turned into—the Men’s groom­ing prod­ucts, the albums, the “notions”—there she was, smil­ing. I don’t know if it was … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Transformer, fiction by Benjamin Soileau

I’m fid­dling with one of those trans­form­ing mon­strosi­ties that toy com­pa­nies make just to dri­ve men like me crazy. It’s some kind of dinosaur that turns into a speed­boat and I’m look­ing down at it, turn­ing it this way and … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Triadelphia, WV, poem by Jay Sizemore

The hotel room seems damp— cold as the West Vir­ginia sky, a cer­tain kind of humid­i­ty left behind in the emp­ty space that light can nev­er fill and that only the nos­trils can inter­pret as mois­ture in the atmos­phere of green car­pet and com­forters. … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Roulette, poem by M.S. Lyle

You move around the house, a cord attached to that spot on your back that no mat­ter how hard you try to reach, you can­not reach. At the oth­er end, the cham­ber. And you are so small; you heard the doc­tor say … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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