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By Nicole Rudick
Joe Brainard's C Comics ran for only two issues, but it remains a testament to the absorbing pleasure of making art with your friends.
Poem
By Khadijah Queen
After my limbs retreat into their sockets
again, my spine slips its discs
back into pain’s fist until…
again, my spine slips its discs
back into pain’s fist until…
Poem
By Maria Hiers
Alana whips us
around the night
in her nineties jalopy.
On the rearview,
a rosary sways.
Our clique’s the…
around the night
in her nineties jalopy.
On the rearview,
a rosary sways.
Our clique’s the…
Poem
By Arthur Sze
A magpie squawks at the top of a blue spruce,
while white-winged doves coo back and forth
across the orchard…
while white-winged doves coo back and forth
across the orchard…
Poem of the day
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I am so alive it
gnaws.
I am so alive it
gnaws.
Poem
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By Michael Bazzett
the universe
blacker and more beautiful than
I
blacker and more beautiful than
I
imagined.
the universe
blacker and more beautiful than
I
blacker and more beautiful than
I
imagined.
Poem
By David Hernandez
Poem
By Mirabai
Translated By Chloe Martinez
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By January Gill O’Neil
every word over top every
other
every word over top every
other
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By marion eames white
Time does not move in one direction. Time is never
straight.
Time does not move in one direction. Time is never
straight.
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