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Category: Poetry

My love flowering for you like maguey

Posted on September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 by Ethan Estrada

once it blooms, maguey dies like your hand  in my back pocket  hand in my hand tongue in my ear green  to tan  to gray  to black and blue bruise crescenting your eyebrow beloved why won’t you look at me today? why will you only touch me in darkness? I am not jasmine,  I do…

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White Rabbit’s Sonnet for March

Posted on March 2, 2024March 3, 2024 by Tyler Watts
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Girlfriend

Posted on February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 by Lucy Ton That

Girlfriend Eyes above red ribs, on the edge of acquaintance.  Plastic cup; real body. Two parts vodka, three parts Coke, & Who taught you to kiss like that?

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Lucy Ton That (July 28th)

Posted on April 28, 2023December 4, 2023 by Lucy Ton That

Lucy Ton That ’26 Lucy Ton That—was born again at 2:38 pmon July 28th, 2022 in Harvard,Massachusetts when she jumped off of abridge with four strangers. The distancebetween her two bodies was sixty feet,captured by the rust and wooden slats of therailway bridge and the murky river beneathit. The old Lucy Ton That is somewhereelse—inhaling…

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Lucy Ton That (October 2nd)

Posted on April 28, 2023December 4, 2023 by Lucy Ton That

Lucy Ton That ’26 Lucy Ton That—was born, probably around9:00 pm, on October 2nd, 2003 at Brighamand Women’s Hospital in Boston,Massachusetts. Her mother will recall that itwas too late to be served dinner at thehospital. The parents were restless andhungry. Lucy will be a child born out ofhunger. At 9:57 pm on August 7th, 2022,behind…

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