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“Moving Among the Changes” by Tim Suermondt

September 4, 2020September 11, 20200

The aspirations of man …

“Neigborhood” by Matthew Chamberlin

August 31, 2020September 7, 20200

This neighborhood is all …

“Tempest of the Bold” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

August 21, 2020September 25, 20231

By the waves I …

“Mourning” by Oisin Breen

August 17, 2020May 1, 20230

Oisín Breen is a …

“Flatline” by Mark Hammerschick

August 10, 2020August 30, 20200

“through the view/of a hollow lens/like an eye surprised/by lost sight”

“Forty Degree Echo” by James Croal Jackson

August 3, 2020August 24, 20201

you’re biting your nails …

“Birth Cave” by Terry Tierney

July 27, 2020August 24, 20200

Shaman paints the wolf …

“Dopo Mezzonatte” by Marina Kazakova

July 24, 2020August 24, 20201

Dopo mezzanotte! Dopo, dopo! …

“Plywood World” by Fabrice Poussin

July 20, 2020August 19, 20200

Another stormy night in …

” ‘Ain Ghazal” by Robert Beveridge

July 10, 2020September 1, 20200

In a chamber with …

“Ghost Machine” by Terry Tierney

July 6, 2020September 1, 20200

“My mother says the camera steals souls,” #MetaworkerMonday

“Death and Mercy” by Kim Malinowski

June 29, 2020August 19, 20200

She wasn’t a phoenix, …

“Coffee Cup, Empty” by DAH

June 22, 2020August 19, 20202

This dimly-lit café, there’s …

“Horseshoes.” by DS Maolalai

June 15, 2020August 19, 20200

somewhere up here you …

“The Hunt” by Seth Jani

June 8, 2020August 29, 20200

I would step out …

“Loud Secrets” by Fabrice Poussin

June 1, 2020September 1, 20200

Two to speak loud …

“Typical Spring Love Song” by Connie Woodring

May 25, 2020August 29, 20200

Connie Woodring is a …

“Edges” By Kim Malinowski

May 18, 2020September 3, 20200

There used to be …

“The Slow Plunge” by Seth Jani

May 4, 2020May 11, 20200

The cracks of frost …

“Locked Together” by C.D. Panell

April 27, 2020August 29, 20200

A pair of purple-throated …

“Poem En Route to Oblivion” by Michael Harmon

April 13, 2020August 19, 20200

My poor dear, were …

“The Next One Who Dies Had Better Be Living” by John Grey

April 6, 2020September 2, 20200

Kill the funeral please.Mow …

“Say Goodbye to Hollywood” by Henry Crawford

March 9, 2020August 19, 20200

[Shot] [in a single …

“West” by James Goss

February 10, 2020August 19, 20200

A four-engine train engines …

“The Primrose Path” by TC Anderson

February 3, 2020August 19, 20200

The Devil’s wicked lips …

“Roots” by Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

January 13, 2020August 19, 20200

The villages grew wingsOut …

“King Yertle” by Mickey J. Corrigan

January 6, 2020November 9, 20200

You are a man …

“The Green Instruction Manual” by Dr. Amit Shankar Saha

December 30, 2019August 19, 20201

Take out a month …

“A Cut Shaving” by Joe Albanese

December 16, 2019August 19, 20200

The shards of blanket …

“The Juicer” by Cameron Morse

November 18, 2019August 19, 20201

In the dream, I’m …

“Advice for Young Lovers” by Thom Young

November 11, 2019August 29, 20200

“try hate later on” #MetaworkerMonday

“Outsider Art” by Joe Bishop

November 4, 2019September 23, 20200

“as I hunch in gnarly leather, drool, toothless,” #metaworkermonday

“Presence” by Matt Dennison

October 28, 2019September 3, 20200

The summer after my …

“The Outcast Dead” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

October 21, 2019September 2, 20200

“In the dead and dark of night,/
upon a haunted gorge they rise.” #metaworkermonday

“Barbed Wires” by Ria Banerjee

October 14, 2019August 29, 20200

Did you, my beloved, …

“Maui” by Cameron Morse

October 7, 2019October 14, 20190

We go grocery shopping …

“Longing/Desire” by Dr. Koshy AV

September 30, 2019August 19, 20200

The longing of the …

“Garfield Books” by Jeremy Szuder

September 16, 2019August 19, 20200

I sit and I …

“Grace” by Jeff Burt

September 9, 2019September 9, 20240

I freeze, startled by …

“The Neighborhood is Burning” by Kaileen Campbell

September 2, 2019August 29, 20200

The house across from …

“Non-Belonging” by Dr. Koshy AV

August 26, 2019September 3, 20200

When it was the …

“Blessing” by Jeff Burt

August 12, 2019August 29, 20200

may your eyelids be …

“Trouble Every Day VI” by Glen Armstrong

July 22, 2019August 19, 20200

I exist where you’ve …

“It was Slow” by Kaileen Campbell

July 8, 2019March 15, 20220

I sat and held …

“Reclamation” by Mallika Bhaumik

July 1, 2019August 19, 20200

Someday we might meet,when …

“He’ll Hear it Again” by Edward Lee

June 24, 2019August 19, 20201

There’s a man the …

“Folded Sky” by Sayan Aich Bhowmik

June 10, 2019August 19, 20200

I fold the corners …

“What Do Birds Do When Bombs Go Off” by Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

June 3, 2019September 23, 20200

When bombs rattle the …

“some other nights” by Mallika Bhaumik

May 27, 2019August 19, 20202

Nights are essays in …

“Bodily” by Gale Acuff

May 13, 2019September 23, 20200

I don’t care if …

“Forgotten Man” by Ann Christine Tabaka

April 29, 2019September 3, 20202

Dust motes dance on …

“The Clairvoyant” by DS Maolalai

April 22, 2019August 19, 20200

for a while there …

“Tungsten Bulbs” by Sayan Aich Bhowmik

April 15, 2019September 1, 20200

I have always wondered …

“Traumatic Pneumothorax” by Melanie Gaughran

April 8, 2019August 27, 20230

Melanie Gaughran is a …

“Seasons of Earth” by Manisha Manhas

February 25, 2019August 19, 20200

the dust storms whineagainst …

“Death of Whydah Sibyl” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

February 4, 2019September 3, 20200

Stand at ocean-side, exhale …

Ruben Reflects on the Difference Between Dreams and Reality While Working the Day Shift” by Chuck Von Nordheim

January 28, 2019August 19, 20200

Where I earn my nine fifty and change each week, rules of physics make the surreal far from cheap.

“Cupholder: A Road Buddy Romance” by Chuck Von Nordheim

January 14, 2019August 29, 20200

Under a sulfur streetlamp, …

“Canescent” by Jagari Mukherjee

January 7, 2019September 4, 20202

1 These mornings, I …

“A Russian Romance” by Nikita Parik

December 17, 2018February 23, 20202

One fanciful Calcutta summer …

“Synthlipsis Greggii” by Hart L’Ecuyer

December 10, 2018April 20, 20190

The war brought a …

“Concurs” by Sanjeev Sethi

December 3, 2018August 30, 20200

Not like in the …

“Almost Rimbaud” by Mary Shanley

November 19, 2018August 19, 20200

I live in the …

“Auscultation” by Sanjeev Sethi

November 12, 2018August 30, 20201

Halcyon and hurtful coexist …

“Everyday I am Born Like This” by Abhilipsa Sahoo

November 5, 2018August 19, 20201

everyday I am born …

“Game [ON]” by Henry Crawford

October 15, 2018August 19, 20200

[w]ham-o Sam-o [Suitors Up!] …

“Dark Side Whispers” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

October 8, 2018October 7, 20180

Unrelenting passion in a …

“7820 miles” by Snata Bose

October 1, 2018August 29, 20200

How can I forget …

“Stewed and Strained” by RK Taylor

September 17, 2018September 16, 20180

comforting chatter from front-facing …

“Why I Should Probably Quit” DS Maolalai

September 10, 2018August 19, 20200

the click of the …

“A New Kind Of Love” by Sanbud Tehrani

August 27, 2018August 21, 20180

It may not get …

“Monograph” by Gary Glauber

August 20, 2018August 19, 20200

Home, a major chord, …

“I Hid to Never Emerge” by Suvojit Banerjee

August 6, 2018August 19, 20200

The snow in my …

“Teeter-Totter” by Sanjeev Sethi

July 30, 2018August 19, 20200

Spindrift from your …

“Exit” by Anupama Kadwad

July 23, 2018September 23, 20200

I force myself to …

“Red Wine for Winter” by DS Maolalai

July 16, 2018September 3, 20200

the snow melts grey …

“Modern Sunsets” by M. A. Istvan Jr.

July 9, 2018August 19, 20200

daytime gutter vomit scared …

“Pledge” by Sheikha A.

July 2, 2018August 30, 20200

Some lands are royalty …

“This is not a Democracy!” by Sanbud Tehrani

June 25, 2018August 19, 20200

“This is not a …

“Cold Frame” by Sanjeev Sethi

June 11, 2018August 19, 20200

Love like Eucalyptus …

“Sea Moon” by Sheikha A.

June 4, 2018September 3, 20200

A road divider on …

“How to Draw a Circle” by Damian Campana

May 28, 2018January 15, 20221

Damian Campana is …

“untitled” by Darin Milanesio

May 21, 2018August 19, 20200

Life is supposed to …

“Thoughts of Steak Tartare” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

May 7, 2018August 27, 20230

Can your mind sustain …

A poem from Simon Perchik

April 30, 2018August 19, 20200

Editor’s Note: Per the …

Excerpt From “We Three Kings” by D.M. Rice

April 23, 2018December 10, 20240

D.M. Rice is a non-binary writer …

“Occupy the Present” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

April 9, 2018August 19, 20200

Whatever be the season, …

“Stag” by Megan Denese Mealor

April 2, 2018September 23, 20200

Megan Denese Mealor has …

“Four Teacups” by Irtika Kazi

March 26, 2018November 9, 20200

Four tea cups lay …

“The Clues Within an Adirondack Glade: Son to Father” by Greg Lucas

March 19, 2018August 29, 20200

Now that you’ve passed-through …

“The Laptop of God” by KG Newman

March 12, 2018August 29, 20200

You’d expect the power …

“To Know Life, To Fight Unarmed” by Sarah Kersey

March 5, 2018August 19, 20200

To know life is …

“Half-Dream” by Ann Christine Tabaka

February 26, 2018August 29, 20201

Gilded morning shatters sleep, …

“Night” by Chestina Craig

February 19, 2018May 16, 20250

I have been raised …

Mother Rips my Roots by Jasmine King

February 5, 2018November 9, 20200

With Lines from “The …

“He Stared Down the Barrel of a Gun and He Saw Me” by Stephanie Luka

January 22, 2018August 19, 20201

I watched you slide …

“Skin” by Chestina Craig

January 15, 2018September 1, 20201

SKIN is the bodies …

“The Plum Tree” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

December 25, 2017August 19, 20200

How did the …

“War Paint” by Linda Imbler

December 18, 2017August 19, 20200

Tonight the battle will …

“Old Photos” by Pat St. Pierre

December 4, 2017September 4, 20200

I never saw my …