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Two Poems by John Dorsey

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Rusty

Box­car Poem #6 on hal­loween some­one in the trail­er park put razor blades in a few can­dy apples after that we stayed in to this day i still won’t shave look­ing like griz­zly adams just seems more whole­some   Box­car Poem #7 we watched as a woman … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Two Poems by Glenn Hollar

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Rusty

Bot­tle Rock­et Ars Poet­i­ca And if we banged into the absurd, we shall cov­er our­selves with the gold of own­ing noth­ing. —Cesár Valle­jo I won­der if the great poets ever had this prob­lem I think, as a bot­tle rock­et cuts … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Poems by Shannon Hardwick

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Rusty

BARTENDER-LONELY How can you stand so many peo­ple, I ask, drunk. Shirts dirty them­selves for the wash­ing, wait­ing for a woman’s hands, he said, I’d steal their laugh­ter, pawn it for a hand­gun just to piss some­one off. I’d drink myself into mys­ti­cal … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Poems by Mather Schneider

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Rusty

FIRST HUNT The first night I had my driver’s license I drank a 6 pack and bor­rowed my mother’s car. I turned the head­lights on, backed out and was about a half mile down the road when I had a col­li­sion … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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poetry by G.M. Palmer

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rusty

Sep­tem­ber The night sweats through the humid­i­ty, our human­i­ty exhaust­ed on the porch col­laps­es from the draw of breath through the thick Autumn air. Steam and mos­qui­toes, blood and bile are min­gling with the mist of burn­ing cross­es, church­es, forests as our spir­its … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Moon in the Holler, poetry by Gina Williams

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Rusty

A full moon is fol­low­ing me home. In the rearview mir­ror, it winks at me, an evil clown, a psy­cho killer. Biggest in a hun­dred years. Old preach­er says it’s a sign, pre­dicts earth­quakes and insan­i­ty, says God and the moon … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Two Poems by Timothy Gager

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Rusty

reply to the grumpy cashier at the fast food restau­rant Hel­lo Sun­shine! just make my damn sand­wich ‘cause at min­i­mum wage that’s what you’re here for   Just a reminder: no one died on a cross mak­ing that bun the body of Christ and … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Poems by Joshua Michael Stewart

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Rusty

GO TO SLEEP YOU LITTLE BABY In her arms is a blue-eyed boy with a dirty face. Under her flow­ered dress, she has anoth­er on the way. They’ve been liv­ing out of an ’85 Buick Riv­iera, park­ing all along the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Poems by Karen Lockett Warinsky

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Rusty

Tough Girls We were a lit­tle afraid of those girls– tough girls in our town– the life they came from.   Lank hair, wiry bod­ies with taut faces, expres­sions hard­ened by scant meals, their eyes plunged through ours as they sized us up, black liq­uid eye­lin­er … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Poems by Karen Weyant

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Rusty

She Likes to Work Grave­yard She knows that the truck dri­ver at the counter wants the pot rot, the thick pool of crust­ed cof­fee that’s been sit­ting for hours. She waits on the women off sec­ond shift at M&C Parts, their Ladies … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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