February 2012
29 posts
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“and it wasn’t any big deal, but I knew
I’d crossed some line...”
– Kimberly Townsend Palmer, Once I Was a Whore…
January 2012
34 posts
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“I thought it was
odd at first. Take
off your clothes you
said, unbuttoning...”
– Lyn Lifshin, Because of This We Were Late, Everything Got Mixed Up. Later I Broke the Door. Or, The Leaving
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“She is two parts flesh
and one part secondhand clothing.
She presses her knee...”
– Arlene Ang, The Plagiarist
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“What god was it that would open
earth’s picture book and see the two
of us on...”
– Fred Marchant, Against Epiphany
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“Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware...”
– Stephen Dunn, Connubial
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“Where does spiralling stop?
From there, yellow stairs.
Explain: Was washing...”
– Molly Tenenbaum, My New Library
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“I go to sleep and wake up
different. You make a lengthy
drive across Iowa to...”
– wendy xu, it’s almost my birthday don’t tell anyone
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“If a girl ever drives four hours alone in the dark wipe of 3am to meet you...”
– Tristan Silverman, This Is How It Will Happen
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“Your first time out of the country
of your own skin, I didn’t bring a map.
...”
– Heather Sommer, Traveler
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“I looked up the word I think you are in the dictionary. It was the Internet...”
– xTx, The Word You Are
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“Daily he told me I was beautiful,
my breast cupped in his palm cured
me of any...”
– Doris Ferleger, Mirrors
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“The next life has more oxygen in it and classical lines, it is set lower into...”
– Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Fireflies
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“What need or duty makes me
leave our warm bed with you
put on cold 4 a.m....”
– Susan L. Helwig, What Need or Duty
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“From the garden rose the sound of bees
that lurched and wobbled through the...”
– Michael Lavers, Coda
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“It isn’t whether. No. Only: how long until
how bad it gets. Our quick, our...”
– Jessica Piazza, Suppose
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“A phantom feeling: lashes fluttering
against my cheek. No flesh, no nerve. Wax...”
– Jessica Piazza, Atephilia (love of ruin)
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“What I wear in the morning pleases
me: green shirt, skirt of wine. ...”
– Olga Broumas, “The Bite”
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“When there’s only condiments left in the fridge
and you join a free online...”
– Stevie Edwards, What I Mean by Ruin Is…
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“there’s a swamp in my mouth & my face is words that feel like someone else’s...”
– you are six flags by Nate Slawson
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“For months, I couldn’t write. It was the loveliest vertigo, sort of like...”
– havoc by Kristy Bowen
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“her moonlit sleeping face: more holy than sunrise.”
– this is my religion by Kirsty Logan
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“He said he would be back and we’d drink wine together
He said that...”
– Muriel Rukeyser, Waiting for Icarus
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“A million different landscapes with snow.
It’s a study of bees. These are your...”
– You Keep Asking What I Want and I Don’t Know What I Want by Emily Pettit
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“What we do exists
now more than ever
in delay. Half-there.
We’re...”
– Emily Kendal Frey, Date
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“I paint a wall in my bedroom blue.
The mirror in the middle stores reflections...”
– Sarah Bartlett, The Knock Off Arrangement
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“I woke in a gold dress
you in jeans.
Morning filled
wine bottles
in the...”
– Rebecca Lindenberg, Aubade
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“If I told you the truth, would you
Understand it, he asked waiting
For her...”
– Dorothee Lang, Secure distances
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“I’ll phone, you said but I
Wasn’t there when you finally did
So...”
– Dorothee Lang, You said
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“He’s flamboyant and you won’t stop going on about him. You’re holding up one of...”
– Rauan Klassnik, Your Dream Man
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“I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in...”
– Cory Mesler, Return Key
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“Because the day’s threaded through hours
the way a skewer’s threaded through...”
– Alan King, The Exchange
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“A woman will prepare an ideal man
out of all she desires: the hair
she took...”
– Alan King, The Recipe
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“You hate her & she hates you & this
is simply put b/c
the ocean is...”
– Stacy Kidd, Beatrix is bright-eyed and pushing you into a corner, what the hell 