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Alex Ewing
March 25, 2020  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: I Keep Dreaming About My Elementary School Gym Teacher

I Keep Dreaming About My Elementary School Gym Teacher by Alex Ewing   She wore short shorts Really short I remember her legs Tanned and toned In gym class, I remember The games we used to play Dodge Ball, Parachute, Scoop Ball She keeps appearing in my dreams She is holding the dodge ball Searching […]

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March 18, 2020  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: Leaving Upon Exit

 LEAVING UPON EXIT by Paige McBride                                   after Rose Marie Prins painting                                               Free, Tumbling like a […]

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March 11, 2020  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: Ten Feet Off Trail, A Mile In

Ten Feet Off Trail, A Mile In by Zebulon Huset Further in the forest, we would find a ring of skeletons wedged against young trees that grew into stable trunks and splayed the bones like Inquisitors—a reference I was far too young to know—but the image that sticks, after much work, is the bicycle ten […]

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March 4, 2020  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: Pheromones Were In the Air

Pheromones Were In the Air by Milton Ehrlich He saw her elegant face on a Satsuma vase, but discovered a loneliness gnawing her gut. She, sad as a weeping widow in explosive licorice— he, trying to cheer her up with his Charlie Chaplin song and dance routine. He often thought of Confucius’ advice: It does […]

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