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I take myself as a child to the movies, and when I fall for the illusion, as rain that falls into the streets on screen, I forget. After all, the score is huge, and the blacktop sizzles like a house on fire. A boy is ...

Book of Dolls 15 by Bruce Bond

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There was a thrum of music, and even now, it is playing,as the dusk turns purple like a woman. A friend tellsme of the moment when he first spottedthe one he would love. She stood, he says, silhouettedby a sky whittled ...

November nights by Loisa Fenichell

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It could be yesterday  I was standing in the yard with three joints, folding  my hands over them  in a kind of prayer,  lighting one  after another to toke  deeply ...

I Almost Forget by Matthew Nienow

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SIN DOCUMENTOS Of God, we only understood His wrath, and still, we spoke about Him  as if He were an older brother. Another one of us: brown and buzzed cut,  running into the ditch, learning about the ...

2 poems by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva

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Under the Florida sun’s stern gaze, parents too busy fighting to watch us in the yard, my brother and I hunt for lizards in the loquat trees brimming with mini-suns, chase them skittering ...

Young Lizard Kings by Ariel Francisco

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The coroner is a crooner who sings the lyrics of the dead written on the flesh of instruments now broken. Laid out in a row along a raucous river: the books and pencils that the four-eyed scholars left ...

The Coroner Is a Crooner: A Queer Exquisite Corpse by Steven Cordova

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Amy My whole life I’ve had a gay aunt  & never knew it.  So obvious—went to Smith, no kids,  joked to us: “I forgot to get married!”  There was the lore of boyfriend ...

2 Poems by Grant Chemidlin

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Sunday afternoon blizzard on the easternmost pointof North America—early mountain standardmeans my Momma’s at church. I can’t sleep late anymore.Instead I mope, cast hard shadows on blue & purple walls,walls ...

Poisoned by S.A. Leger

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Arnisha Royston is a Pushcart Nominated poet from Los Angeles. Having started in Spoken Word and moved closer toward the written page, Arnisha is drawn to poetry that is intimate and urgent, with ...

3 poems by Arnisha Royston

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