Justin Phillip Reed
There it goes, thin thing,
cheshiring between trees
whose reaper-robes trail
their trains deep underground:
your life, hangin out
from the book
The Malevolent Volume /
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- January 21, 2020
Dawn Davies
...and by "late hours"
they both know she meant his cheating with the tiny
Castilian woman two zip codes over, and this thought
that poisoned her days now propelled her to stomp on his mailbag
and kick it off the porch for all that the mailbag stood for:
the overtime, the philandering, the childless Castilian
with the twenty-two inch waist.
- January 20, 2020
Jane Mead
And under all this now a steady grating—
a plastic bottle of blue cheese dressing
scraping up against the concrete gutter,
bobbing off the aqua, sun-flicked waves
the kids have made by jumping.
- January 19, 2020
Megan Fernandes
the girl with the fake lashes knows
i like a double gin and i am telling sam
that i am a dog who was converted
when i was seventeen and my mother found an essay
about how i was in love with a girl
and there was a portishead reference
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