Poetry

Alone by Kate McNairy.

Alone by Kate McNairy.

Swim Lonely one,             Curley head  sinks rises up for air,             water separates limbs,                         Arm over arm I swim. I need   The Pills, have to             be exact (the terrifying cost).              I am a chemical                         cocktail, have no idea I am, But  Monday morns             I line up...
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A Runny Nose in January by Kyle Torke

A Runny Nose in January by Kyle Torke

  Love is the loose elevator cable, a hibernating bear, A juggler with fire torches, a blister before the skin rises With pus, a leaky shock on a heavy truck going downhill, A shovel before the hole’s been dug or the seeds planted, A heart monitor without any sound, a juggler with fire Torches...
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Yesterday by Mitchell Untch

Yesterday by Mitchell Untch

after you’d gone our bodies uncoupled in the dark I lay in bed and started to think of things that are halved apples pears seeds and the knives that separate them I thought of doors half open half closed their wide unexpected swings into the middle of rooms how they halve distances I thought...
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Fleetwood Factory by Peggy Douglas

Fleetwood Factory by Peggy Douglas

  My son heaves plywood on the line, where compressed air and staples two inches long find their rhyme: throw a board up staple back, whack, along paneling lines. Throw a board up stable back, whack. No words ever spoken. Stud walls swabbed with industrial glue waiting for nailers and screwgunners to echo and...
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A Poem for the Future Generation by Jeremy Quintero

I hope I can watch you grow up to be just like your dad // you can rank above the both of us, he Kahuna // I maka’ainana I will put your head in stars blessed, turn/twist/shine/spin Mana in your palms // a prayer for those dying to manifest into those unborn Kapu flows...
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