A. M. Juster
The caution tape is tattered
and flapping in the wind.
Birds guard the median
where glass and steel lie shattered.
from the book
Wonder & Wrath /
Paul Dry Books
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- June 12, 2021
Rosebud Ben-Oni
You say you know the reason why Archimedes died
tracing circles in the sand & how
you’ll go out this way,
a man too in love
with unifying
theorem
& consequence.
- June 11, 2021
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
In the beginning, there was a boy
who touched me as he shouldn't have.
His hands around my ankles—claustrophobic—
a plot of cattails on the water's black silt.
- June 10, 2021
Raymond Antrobus
Gaudí believed in holy sound
and built a cathedral to contain it,
pulling hearing men from their knees
as though Deafness is a kind of Atheism.
Who would turn down God?
- June 9, 2021
Corey Van Landingham
Yet the women who ate
from German
plates—Paris
paraded them naked
in the streets. Painted
swastikas across
their chests. Yes,
it feels good
to be right.
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