Poetry

• Penultimate Engagement

  Juleigh Howard-Hobson

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  115 words

  I don’t sleep now.

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• I gave all my loneliness to the trees

  Dipesh Parajuli

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  96 words

  I gave all my loneliness to the trees— barefoot, I held them close.

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• The Flute in Buddha’s Hands

  Dipesh Parajuli

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  140 words

  I ended up in the wrong place— the kind of gig where your bones don’t sing, they grind.

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• Six Ways to Remake Your Body

  Michael Klinberg

  Poetry

  3–5 minutes

  737 words

  In the language of flowers, your (his) body is the kind that Destroys

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• INTERNAL LOCUST OF CONTROL

  Jamie Manias

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  104 words

  Never mosh with grasshoppers. Worst mistake of my life.

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• The Dying of a Ship in Deep Space

  Fariel Shafee

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  113 words

  And she sat Quietly as She breathed

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• Internal Dialogue in the Line for Free Samples of Eternal Life at the Costco

  Jamie Manias

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  318 words

  Eternal? Eternal’s too much. How many years do I even use per year? Only one, maybe two.

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• I Beat With My Dragonwings

  Marie Deer

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  175 words

  I beat with my dragonwings against my earthmother asking why?

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• Dedication

  Nathalie Friederich

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  144 words

  When I was little my mother told me dragonflies were fairies.

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• Spock, After “A Few” Whiskeys

  Sarah Johnson LaBarbera

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  281 words

  Under the present conditions, captains’ oak seaboards bounded under standard issue boots like dogs on leash.

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