Daiquiri
Short Story

Daiquiri

A MAGICAL SHORT STORY My name is Colona, like "colony." This morning, I woke up drunk. My eyes are as closed as they are open; it's early.

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Capers
Poetry

Capers

A FREE-VERSE POEM Outcast in reign and serving partnership, Forthwith on valleys of golden highs, Marginal errors in cowardice and family,  Members of the ca…

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Magic
Poetry

Magic

A FREE-VERSE POEM I lighted the surface things Upon a twilight, burnt offerings The fiery, throated parlance Thrown unto verses and flesh-colored signs — I sa…

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Bones
Poetry

Bones

A FREE-VERSE POEM The starry chaparral of your night, The opulent consequences of dredging Thorny moonlight between our gazes Between a slathering of insults…

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Sister
Poetry

Sister

A FREE-VERSE POEM Your cool, locust touch, the green gnarled Hand of your eyes, your gem The pulchritudinous, dude, your mind The insect vibrations of words W…

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Blank Verse #6
Poetry

Blank Verse #6

A BLANK-VERSE POEM A dime, a soul in blackness is its name. The inky spleen attracts passive sanctity; The hole, a thing not round, but stuck in deafness, A…

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Germany
Sonnets

Germany

A SONNET A child’s tapestry, I remember   I doused it with gasoline,   Burned it—ashes meant to be forgiven;   Under the forgiveness growled remorse

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Maryland
Sonnets

Maryland

A SONNET Here, my father (not) died on a Sunday,    On a day I can remember , longing ;    We lived lives of fire and plenty , sadly —    Loving—it was a sin…

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Six-Word Story: Fairytale 5
Six-Word Story

Six-Word Story: Fairytale 5

A SIX-WORD STORY Evil gnomes hate miraculous, magnificent tomes.

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Philadelphia
Sonnets

Philadelphia

A SONNET   Mother, of course, it begins with Mother;    I was the first-born there;    Intertw ined , inter mingled, our tree, hazy,    Difficult to bear, face…

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