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Wings and Lace

by Erika Byrne-Ludwig, posted 5 days ago 5555 views44 comments22 favs

Feelings can't be measured, can't be weighed, can't be evaluated. I imagine invisible wings flitting inside us close to our heart like butterflies on flowers. Unpalpable, elusive, colourless lace. I'd like to be able to touch them, see if they're hot or cold. Perhaps…

Space Flesh

by Tim G. Young, posted 5 days ago 6464 views66 comments33 favs

In the dark I see the moon blast off

DO NOT STOP WALKING!

by Misti Rainwater-Lites, posted 6 days ago 6767 views44 comments33 favs

There is coffee to the right and whiskey to the left.

Putin Flies!

by strannikov, posted 6 days ago 6969 views33 comments22 favs

Rumors stranger than usual were circulating in Moskva. Naturally, they could not be confirmed, but they were making the rounds so thickly that they began spilling out of the capital. “Putin has become a superman!”

When I Look at You

by Darryl Price, posted May 07, 2024 7676 views44 comments44 favs

I see a veryunhappy child whois always smarterthan the averagebear in the room. What you need is more love, not more wisdom. There are things out there that eat light to stay alive. Are you sure you're not fattening yourself up to be…

Good Friends

by Chris Okum, posted May 07, 2024 8282 views55 comments55 favs

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Wall

by stephen hastings-king, posted May 01, 2024 132132 views55 comments44 favs

Such is the duality of small towns: the hope; the smallness.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

by John Olson, posted Apr 27, 2024 145145 views77 comments66 favs

Marcel Proust had never been to a big-box store before. He was dazzled by the sheer size and scope of the store and the seeming impassivity of the shoppers. So many products, so many shelves, such strangely intriguing examples of the human condition. The people seemed…

TERRI AND THE BOXING MATCH

by Carl Santoro, posted Apr 26, 2024 212212 views22 comments22 favs

You were the prize. He was the sudden wedge.

line breaks

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Apr 21, 2024 127127 views1010 comments88 favs

I wish

Sorry I Sucked a Donkey Dick!

by Smiley McGrouchpants, Jr-Esq-III, posted Apr 20, 2024 205205 views44 comments22 favs

["And you can tear a building down ... but you can't replace ... the MEMORIES ... "]

No New Clothes for the Empress

by Neil McCarthy, posted Apr 20, 2024 165165 views88 comments66 favs

Because I was not sure if the poet had said yearn or urine, I zoomed in on her mouth as she commanded the lectern...

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Nothing is Resolved

by Jeff Goldberg, posted Apr 15, 2024 307307 views33 comments33 favs

"I write out of a deep need within myself for beauty. A beauty that I think can only be found through the practice, through the sacrifice over time that's required."

Muffled

by Adam Sifre, posted Mar 30, 2024 249249 views55 comments44 favs

A poem not about fog written in fog with an erasable pen.

Birthday Makeover

by Phillis Ideal, posted Mar 19, 2024 293293 views11 comment11 fav

Iris is beside herself with excitement that the most popular girl in her eighth-grade class invited her to join her circle of friends after school. On the sound of the bell, she charges to the door to be the first out of the room and to race to meet Ange

Pleaser

by Emily Sparkles, posted Mar 05, 2024 359359 views55 comments33 favs

Yes keeps falling out of my mouth

OBLIGATORIES

by Jeffrey S. Callico, posted Feb 27, 2024 257257 views66 comments22 favs

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