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Poetry

Thinking of a Friend at Night

  • Author Callum Kiser
  • PublishedNovember 18, 2017November 18, 2017

Early in this evil year comes autumn. I walk in the fields at night, the cold wind at my hat, the rain rattles…And you? And…

Affettuoso (After Caravaggio)

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedNovember 5, 2017March 25, 2018

Watcher – this, your face pink-cheeked with abandon. This your hidden, thrumming hand. This, your wine-shadowed longing draped over his shoulders, laid flush against the…

An aubade (UH4 LHR-IAH)

  • Author Hannah Lindsey
  • PublishedOctober 2, 2017October 2, 2017

We must not speak now of etherized spread- eagle evenings fading skin histories from violent to -et to rose-risen blush. We must not rush now…

Ed’s Story

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedFebruary 14, 2017February 14, 2017

  Ed owns the road. I don’t. And he does the hard work. You can tell that by the cracks in his hands. He looks…

Poetry: “San Francisco (1956)”

  • Author Kristian Tonnessen
  • PublishedOctober 14, 2015October 14, 2015
  • 2 Comments on Poetry: “San Francisco (1956)”

  San Francisco (1956) woman, child of narcotic sleep, woman, two hands holding the slippery, deserter sea. she’s going to another horizon, she’s leaving; it’s…

Poetry: “Fall (SpaceShipTwo)”

  • Author Ben Kogan
  • PublishedJune 29, 2015October 14, 2015

I am nine miles above you and falling fast once iron groans and peels away from me and strapped   to this rock I am…

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