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Lit Cigarettes
 • Poems from the Threshold
Her Body is Not a Home
 • lyw
Taxidermy of Trees
no explanations
Unblemished
a poem that explores the complex dialogue between past and present selves and between a mother’s memory and a daughter’s lived experience.
 • Lexi Caine
Familiar Strangers
This poem captures the unique intimacy and transience of urban life where routine creates invisible bonds among strangers.
 • Ilana J Sprongl
the Turkish pot
in this poem the Turkish pot becomes a vessel of transformation for the poet whether brewed or fully steeped.
 • lyw
The indecisive fickle mind!
If you read this poem as a literal dialogue between organs (heart and mind) or as an internal argument about desire versus reason, it becomes much more…
Lost and Found Prompt
Image courtesy of MystiChakra
Published on The Chapbook Whisperer • 
Beyond the Shouting Tree
Incoherent thoughts pass through
Published on SeaJade@baantalay • 
Love portals
a poem tethered by a horse named Arthur.
 • Lexi Caine
A certain hunger
There's a certain hunger
Published on Mercurial • 
Untitled freestyle rap
A sharp, candid reflection on the split between our dream and waking selves, and the irony that perfection might be just being allowed to be imperfect…
 • Yema Chaemie
Poesy
Poesy
This is a poetry publication that represents the work of Poesy, a group of poets that stew, carve, hammer and knit new bodies of poetry from our present days.
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