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The One That Got Away — I Hope

How One Rideshare Became a Night of Danger and Seduction. She called when I was in the car with my Mother, with a trunk full of groceries, two years ago. I was on my holiday-season road trip to Tucson, December 2013. She was calling about a rideshare to Los Angeles that I had recently posted […]

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THE MAN I NEVER MET // Part 1

Hexagram 16 is named 豫(yù), “Providing-For.” Other translations include “enthusiasm” and “excess.” Chapter Five — One Week Later Time’s up, said the guard. She took out a lipstick and pushed up the gel, but as she pressed the red to her ruby lips, she chased the color away, subtracting evidence of the artificial one millimeter […]

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For Belle

Jen Coleman is author of “Psalms for Dogs and Sorcerers” (Trembling Pillow Press) which was selected by poet Dara Wier for the 2013 Bob Kaufman book prize. Jen’s next volume of poems is forthcoming from Furniture Press. She lives in Portland, OR and is a member of the Spare Room reading collective. For Belle The […]

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Transfixed by Night Skies

A collection of poems turning our attention to the night sky. Of stars Winter, the amber fire of ashen woods, we burned wet the smolder of mire the water and the fire dark ancestress home nights, moon shivering, cold stars fixed or falling beyond the skies fiery yields only dying embers lost in oblivion’s field […]

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Show and Tell

Featured Image by Beatriz Albuquerque There are worse ways to spend an evening than hearing Bob-Bob tell the story about the time he brought a cow’s eyeball to school, and the kids took turns sticking it to the palms of their hands. It was easy access for him because his father owned a meat-packing plant, […]