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Old Tyme with a Y

by Derek Mong

When the last phone cord unslithers
from a sleeping teen’s fingers,

and all the TV knobs have spun
off into orbits unknown;

when the word tablet can glisten
without beeswax or mason, Continue reading

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Curriculum Vitae

by Dante Di Stefano

You are the entire ocean in a drop,
if you are anything. There’s no bluebird
in my heart, but if there were he would perch
on a rhinoceros horn and whistle
sea chanteys to the frigate in your heart.

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Defenseless

by Dustin Brown

Mice have taken over my bedroom.
They catapulted themselves
onto my bed, battering rammed
the pillow to the floor. Continue reading

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Fried Starfish

by Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Is a delicacy.
Like a shield,
rough skin shelters
the tender within.

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Joseph on Fartherhood

by Kenneth Pobo

Sometimes I’d like my family
to enter a spaceship headed to Titan.
The farther away they are,
the more I relax. It’s not that Continue reading

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