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“Seeking” by Pearce Green

Posted on September 26, 2022

my youth has drooped, the trees in the forest too.beard grown thick, wet the bed black;death calls our names alphabetically,the rooster still crows in the afternoon, waking me.stopped taking my […]

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“Another Life” by Helen Nancy Meneilly

Posted on June 10, 2022

Helen Nancy Meneilly is an Irish poet whose work explores issues of identity, language, and womanhood. She is currently studying for her MA in Creative Writing through the Open University. […]

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“No Dreamin’ at the Double Tree” by Suzanne S. Rancourt

Posted on August 30, 2021

everything smells like soap except that one hallway smeared withvolatile coconut particles, reminds me of that porn theatre in somedank Indianapolis district wild with heavy air and greasy tanninghuts, but […]

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“Transformations” by David Henson

Posted on February 5, 2021

Mom’s breathing was shallow, her skin rough, hair green. I glanced up and saw my father, Fred, checking his phone as his wife of almost 40 years transformed. Fred and […]

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“Volitions of Desire” by Oisin Breen

Posted on October 16, 2020

I speak- Of climbing trees, and, of being terrified, but jumping, ‘fifteen feet!’ onto the brown mound beneath, momentarily and relationally also jumping through a nostalgic hustings of inner time, […]

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“The Destiny Tree” by Hibah Shabkhez

Posted on October 2, 2020

The destiny tree, Dark gnarled and secretly wick, Claws at you and me Across eye spaces Twisting phoenix-glass specks prance Bloated toad-faces Yearning for their ilk, Bucking the frothing cream […]

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“Tree Song” by Melissa Reynolds

Posted on March 23, 2020

I have stood for over a hundred years in this place, endured the idiots who link hands and try to encompass my bulk, observed the overprepared hiker complete with stuffed […]

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

Posted on March 19, 2018

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 poised among the mysteries that […]

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Mother Rips my Roots by Jasmine King

Posted on February 5, 2018

With Lines from “The Apple Trees at Olema” by Robert Hass Shakes me by the raw, white, backlit flaring of her lightning streaked hand. Fingers whip, burn my veiny branches […]

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