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Tag: life

“So Many Ways to Live” by Victoria Woolf Bailey
Poetry

“So Many Ways to Live” by Victoria Woolf Bailey

February 11, 2022February 13, 20220

When that moment arrives(by car, by bus, by daybreak) We live in it like a house(condo, apartment, tent down by the river) Imagining we may …

“Drowned Man Lives Again” by John Grey
Poetry

“Drowned Man Lives Again” by John Grey

January 28, 2022January 23, 20220

There was a lot of crazy thrashing at first and I was cursing myself for not keeping at it with those swimming lessons, and I …

“In Between” by Kelly Claytor
Fiction

“In Between” by Kelly Claytor

December 24, 2021March 15, 20222

Are you dead, Maria? One Hour It seems so. Seven Days Their black clothes. Their black veils. Their white handkerchiefs, dry in their pockets. None …

“The Borderland Furies” by Oisin Breen
Poetry

“The Borderland Furies” by Oisin Breen

May 3, 2021August 27, 20230

On questioning circumstance;One must accept that it is often mere collision.That it is neither the (un)holy they, nor a waxwork trinity, at fault for the …

“More” by Tom Barlow
Poetry

“More” by Tom Barlow

March 1, 2021March 1, 20210

Boxes everywhere, boxes overflowing, traffic conesstacked in the parlor, a brown Christmas tree in thedining room peeks out from behind a tower ofnested plastic chairs. …

“Skins” by Carson Pytell
Poetry

“Skins” by Carson Pytell

December 14, 2020December 14, 20200

Gallery of grotesqueries whence names are staked as pilgrims blameless  to manifest that destiny, hands out hand me downs. Accompanied, individuality affronts. Individually: unencumbered; loving, …

“Horseshoes.” by DS Maolalai
Poetry

“Horseshoes.” by DS Maolalai

June 15, 2020August 19, 20200

somewhere up here  you might bite the whole horizon.  love pours in like an emptied sack of apples. tastes fresh  like apples, and smells  like …

“untitled” by Darin Milanesio
Editorial / Poetry

“untitled” by Darin Milanesio

May 21, 2018August 19, 20200

Life is supposed to be music But we are the notes not the listeners Maybe we are God’s music Chords being strummed on some cosmic …

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

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

March 19, 2018August 29, 20200

Now that you’ve passed-through woods deeper and darker than these — climbed into eternity — can you tell me, when our hearts stop, and we’re …

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

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

March 5, 2018August 19, 20200

To know life is to greet knowing you won’t unmeet. To know life is to see your creators split into demigods, degrading into man and …

“GET A JOB, LOS ANGELES” by Tadeu Bijos
Fiction / Miscellaneous

“GET A JOB, LOS ANGELES” by Tadeu Bijos

August 15, 2016September 3, 20200

Dude driving, dude driving vast expanses, dude fucking up on the GPS, dude asking for directions, dude getting off on the right off-ramp and hitting the ocean …

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