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February 12, 2020  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: First Winter After She Left

First Winter After She Left by Yash Seyedbagheri First winter after Mother leaves, sister Nancy and I shovel unruly snow, hands weighed down by patches. Flakes fly, whirling seductresses. We clear faster. Flakes cover clearness. Nature gives. Takes. Gives people wanderlust, makes world cold. We try to make everything perfect. Keep clearing. We trip. Keep […]

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December 18, 2019  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry, Uncategorized

Poetry: My first and last cigarette

My first and last cigarette by Virna Chessari Traces of cigarette on the table, In the shadows smoke around me Repugnant smell from the ashtray. I never could stand smoke But the magic moment of lighting a match, That mysterious small fire in the dark, A live coal in my brother’s hand used to light […]

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December 11, 2019  |  By . In Poetry

Poetry: Cancer

Cancer by Michael T. Smith   It was hard to run from this place when it was a part of me.   There was a war in me, born sometime in the past. I didn’t know I was pregnant, a Hera of personal strife.   There was a frown in me larger than my womb. […]

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December 4, 2019  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: Release Me

Release Me by Anthony R. Salandy   I lay restless, In constant idle anguish— I lay captivated by your touch, I lay sick and burdened— As I await the touch of your passion.   As I imagine the emotion, The sinful lust— And the intrusive passion— I am bound by the pleasure imagined within— As […]

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