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ours by not beings ours

A poem by Kelly Larkin Conway Photo by dbking via flickr

By Kelly Conway, Poet
• March 23, 2012

Ours by not being ours.
 
Saturday mornings with the guys
he’d tell bed-sheet war stories.
I’d ask something like how’d she taste anyway
and we’d crack all into …

The Lover in the Mirror

A poem by Adrian Lacson Photo by dherrera_96 via flickr

By Adrian Lacson, Poet
• March 23, 2012

That Lover in the mirror—
If he is my second-half I wonder.
I talk to you and you talk to me;
I wave my hand and you …

Betty

A poem by Brodie Robbins creative_g_web

By Brodie Robbins, Poet
• March 23, 2012

The respirator hummed and clicked away
a percussion ensemble, beating the rhythm of life
 
Hurooooom-click Hurooooom-click
 
She lay wrapped in her favorite linens
The warm embrace of her …

The Gentle Bird Weeps

A poem by Seth Earle creative_g_web

By Seth Earle, Poet
• March 23, 2012

The gentle bird flies the earth
In search of what is right
It glides among the most beautiful things
But never stays the night
 
Everyone knows this gentle …

FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, NEAR TAMPA

A poem by Matt Robinson creative_g_web

By Matt Robinson, Poet
• March 23, 2012

unsteady – but not quite anxious – from the limp of this
deck furniture’s scuff-addled vantage, this small, prefab balcony’s
whitewashed aluminum rails: strobe-frames the inflatable …

Slugs

A story by Ross Chiasson creative_g_web

By Ross Chiasson, Writer
• March 23, 2012

I cannot think of anything worse than being born into this world as a slug.  It’s because of this that I kill any slug …

Raging Waters

A story by Kendall Erickson creative_g_web

By Kendall Erickson, Writer
• March 23, 2012

The windows shook and rattled as the over-powering winds off the Atlantic Ocean blew inwards towards the rickety old cabin she had since long …

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A poem by Gaeby Abrahams creative_g_web

By Gaeby Abrahams, Poet
• March 23, 2012

She could never quite figure it out:
did the link descend to the left or the right?
how big was the loop?
and an ear—just like that?
At …

Paris, 1968

A story by Michael Wohlfahrt Liberty leading the People by Eugène Delacroix

By Michael Wohlfahrt, Writer
• March 23, 2012

Jean-Pierre ran down the hot streets, his boots clacking on cobblestone beneath him. People were shouting all around him, attracting more and more people …

Queerness of the Whole Damn Thing

A story Chad Durling creative_g_web

By Chad Durling, Fiction Writer
• March 23, 2012

Too easy. It was too easy. A ladder lead us to the roof; a quick kick sent it down and hid it in the …