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"Perfect Prey" &Other Poems
By Ari Anne Flit (Instagram: @ari_flit Tiktok: @pupzjr) "perfect prey" isn’t every woman born a perfect prey? every woman has borne a...
Teresa Carstetter
Nov 22, 20232 min read


"Fearing Cancer, Mother- Daughter"
By Meredith Clements (Instagram: @mclemster) Unstitch my skin. Remove the rot. Melt me down to liquid form. Mix me into your morning...
Teresa Carstetter
Nov 22, 20231 min read


"The Cape of Good Hope" and Other Poems
By Jonathan Chibuike Ukah (Twitter: @johnking1502 Instagram: johnking1502 Facebook: chibuikeuasoanya) "The Cape of Good Hope" Sleeping...
Teresa Carstetter
Nov 22, 20234 min read


"Beach Patience"
By Tom Squitieri (@TomSquitieri) It was at 1:57 today when I finally heard what the beach was saying to me About half a century from when...
Teresa Carstetter
Nov 22, 20231 min read


"Regaining Consciousness"
By R. Gerry Fabian (Twitter @GerryFabian2 Instagram: @gery3397 Web Page: https://rgerryfabian.wordpress.com) The fever finally spikes...
Teresa Carstetter
Nov 22, 20231 min read


"Welcome" and Other Poems
By Frederick Pollack (Website: www.frederickpollack.com) Welcome As far as you can tell, what they ask first is, How did you manage to...
Teresa Carstetter
Jul 26, 20233 min read


"Climate Change" and Other Poems
By Yewande Akinse (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @adwande ) "Climate Change" Climate change is neither a joke nor myth but a vast...
Teresa Carstetter
Jul 26, 20231 min read


"Whoreship 2.0" & Other Poems
By Adesokan Tunde (Toonday) (Twitter: @tunde_adesokan Instagram: @toondayatkins Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan) "Whoreship 2.0" The new morn...
Teresa Carstetter
Jul 26, 20231 min read


History Comes To Sit With Me & Other Poems
By Tejas (Twitter: @yytejas Instagram: @yytejas) History Comes To Sit With Me On the steps Leading down to this silent river History...
Teresa Carstetter
Jul 26, 20232 min read


Put On The Block
A gruesome game of segregation, played while the man upstairs watches from above. Somewhere someone always pays the price. And fellow...
Teresa Carstetter
Jul 26, 20231 min read


"From Where We Parted (Began Again)"
By Claire Kroening (Instagram: @clairerosek) September-spilled memories hold me to after-hours I hope to forget- from the brick walls,...
Teresa Carstetter
Jul 26, 20231 min read


Sunken Friendships & Other Poems
By Jennifer Klein (Instagram: @jenniferkleinreal) Sunken Friendships People always talk about perished romance Decaying petals on a...
Teresa Carstetter
Jul 26, 20233 min read


Just Me
By Steven David Lampley (Facebook: @stevendavidlampley) JUST ME They've gone on before Like the places I used to go. It's all changed,...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20231 min read


"Life Goes on" & Other Poems
By R.S. (IG:@thepoetrywindmill) Life Goes On I've learned about life: it goes on: In restless breaths is time inhaled, Right after dark,...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20231 min read


The Soul of Wine
By Peter Donnelly (Twitter:@Peatstweet) After the French of Charles Baudelaire. One night, the soul was wine warbling in its bottles:...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20231 min read


Ode to Despondence & Other Poems
By Shamik Banerjee (Instagram: @where_tales_end) The Aim is Not Like a Bulk Cedar Tree The aim is not like a bulk Cedar tree, to have...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20235 min read


The Railing
By Shawn Scott Smith (Twitter: @luckycreature Website: @luckycreature.com ) "The Railing" Smooth metal with the occasional imperfection,...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20231 min read


"Whoreship I & II"
By Adesokan Tunde (Toonday) (Twitter: @tunde_adesokan Instagram: @toondayatkins Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan) "Whoreship I" Abeni, Are your...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20231 min read


"Adrift & Other Poems
By Benjamin Jelkmann (FaceBook: @benjaminjelkmannwriter) "Adrift" Waves of rum crash behind his eyes, Rhythmic with the gentle swell in...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20232 min read


Quest to Self
By Ali Ashhar (Twitter: @AliAshhar11 Instagram: @ali_ashhar1) You are not the rattle of 1K likes or 10K followers You are the serene...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20231 min read
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