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- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
Three Poems by Kristin Ryan
Crisis Counseling: Intake The intake process is the same
for adults and children. You don’t have to tell me
what happened, but it might
help if you do. I want you to know that
your reactions were normal.
Has anyone told you that? That you’re normal? Angled Sunlight My body is full
of rot and song:
No one wants
to touch bone.
How am I supposed
to make my body
mine again? That first touch
taught me I had
no choice. Hide and Seek
after Nick Flynn
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- Sep 30, 2018
- 1 min
Conversation between Islands, by Gervanna Stephens
Conversation between Islands I always wonder how boats crash
go up in flames, create
contrast, like the ocean needed
help to melt the sun
before its melting. I imagine the ocean
a beautiful tragedy coming
so far and no more unless
it opens wide, roars and rushes
to swallow. I imagine the ocean
a mirror, revealing to the sky
its beauty reflecting to swimmers
their deepest desires, clear pools
of designated lanes for sailors. I imagine the ocean
as predatory
layi
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- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
Two Pieces by Christine Taylor
Listen Not the relentless rain that threatens to flood Our home and wash us away, nor the wind That rattles the windows, upends shallow Rooted trees, forces us to board up windows-- It’s the whistling of air through the night That chokes my breath, renders me silent During the storm. Covering the ears helps little. Besides, I know what’s coming: the sharp slice Of words to carve patterns of doubt, the Breaking of windows whose shards reflect no Light. A moment of calm in the
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- Sep 29, 2018
- 2 min
Two Poems by Kristin Garth
The Keeper Taut thighs, nineteen, an alibi, a nude, New Jersey. Leaned against a ladder back a growl inside an ear. Your crop colludes to cleave its way to pink. Its tongue that thwacks a thirsty trek toward a taste of cleft so deftly drinks the discipline of your desire. A whistle race to sweat, lips left to bite, bereft of breath. This run endured its finish line is bed, a harried head, a mane you groom to gleams, pristine and pure. A ribbon and a rub before a spread, a coo
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- Sep 27, 2018
- 3 min
Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire, reviewed by Jared Benjamin
Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire by Justin Karcher & Ben Brindise EMP, June 2018 83 Pages. $12.00, paper. Book Review: Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire by Justin Karcher & Ben Brindise If there was ever a collaboration of two writers who’ve bled the heart of Buffalonian poetry, those two souls would be Justin Karcher and Ben Brindise. In Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire, their depictions go beyond the realm of Rustbelt landscape and become
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