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PUBLISHED POEMS


BALAUSTRO
By Dana Collins asks teacher how babies are made worries she’s going to pop open loses hide and seek again wipes herself up with tissue...
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FINAL POEM
By Andrew Darling You contemplate the final poem somewhere in late night/ early morning. Beauty has drained from the divine and the...
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THE LEECHING
By Amelia Nayar I found another leech. Black. Red. Lard. Moving. Living. on the Hollow of my ankle. It keeps eating It...
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LIVES BY LIFE CONSUMED
By Katrina J. Paddock Worlds have ended at this crossroads Worlds have ended, are ending: with knives in bellies with life in bellies...
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SUICIDAL BIRDS
By DeAnne LeBlanc they fly one by one tricked by their own reflection and the mirrored sky they believe they are flying through not...
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ETERNAL GARDEN OF SHADOWS
By Bob W Christian Forty years, an eternity carved into flesh, Each second a ghost haunting the corners of my mind. In the mirror, I see...
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DARK BARGAIN
By Rebecca Eanes A dreadfully dark night, it was, the night it came to pass. A wicked chill held to the air, a storm was coming fast. ...
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HOW DOES MY SKIN FEEL
By Kaitlyn Gutzke draped around your shoulders clinging to your bones? You wear it so well – what's the occasion? I felt your fingernails...
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ATROCITY
By Alan Dunnett This was after the shops had closed. I knew at once that the empty streets would never be filled again. I thought for a...
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UNMAKING SPELL
By Fabian Wadsworth Despair lives in the belly like too much salt rusting our machinery to a stiffness until we can no longer move...
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I, THE POISONED WELL
By Charles Broughton Come take a sip from I, the poisoned well. Toss the bucket into my cobblestone maw and quench the pain with my...
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INJURIES YOU CANNOT SEE #29
By HLR Four dents — subtle trenches dug into the landscape of her head. Remember when everyone was obsessed with that game, Fruit Ninja?...
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WHAT THE NIGHT BRINGS
By Freya Metcalfe Let’s see what the night brings. This long night, The dark sister of daylight, Seems softer this time, Slower,...
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RESTORATION
By Mike Everley Taking the Stanley Knife to the old chair it feels strange not to cut skin to feel blood ooze from the wound. But that...
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SLAB
By Kirsty Mealing Flesh on the slab There's something bout the steel That makes her pale look drab The way the curls fall Undisturbed By...
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LETTING GO
By Wayne Hebb You can be free, Just let go but The past does not Want freedom. It wants you and It will not let go. You must trick it,...
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SAMARITANS
By Daša Kružlicová Hello excuse me I’d like to be destroyed Name and date of birth and the reason why, please. Never had a name...
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TO THE FILTH
By Isaac Thornton It was almost autumn when we touched for the first time, when outside the leaves landed like tanned leather on the...
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ONLY A WISH
By Sarah Singh today my love, i wish to see you so forgive me, let me look at the sky, ah yes, the clouds are staying true, they are...
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THE BLACK DOOR
By Senan de Léas The Black Door stalks me silently, throughout the busy scenes. Ever present, always watching, never straying far from...
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