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Sixteen Scores for Resistance by Samantha Cohen

  1. Resist Sense of Scale Go on a hike somewhere unpopular.  Avoid looking at the horizon. You can see green green green rolling and rolling, deep green fur swallowing tiny homes, okay. Maybe you can see your home, even,

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Sixteen Scores for Resistance by Samantha Cohen

  1. Resist Sense of Scale Go on a hike somewhere unpopular.  Avoid looking at the horizon. You can see green green green rolling and rolling, deep green fur swallowing tiny homes, okay. Maybe you can see your home, even,

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Providence by Marcus Civin

I have to go down to the basement, where the light is wrong. Or is there really even any light? And you don’t have to answer this question… the cost. And no one answers the phone. They’re good, but those

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Providence by Marcus Civin

I have to go down to the basement, where the light is wrong. Or is there really even any light? And you don’t have to answer this question… the cost. And no one answers the phone. They’re good, but those

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Pillow Talk by Saehee Cho

one. A barely sagged face, the bud of fatigue. And also beauty, clean and silver skinned, a cut. two. She can admit with ease that she is a believer in signs, in the quantifiable impossibility of coincidence. She can admit

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Pillow Talk by Saehee Cho

one. A barely sagged face, the bud of fatigue. And also beauty, clean and silver skinned, a cut. two. She can admit with ease that she is a believer in signs, in the quantifiable impossibility of coincidence. She can admit

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12 Years Ago by Maya Gurantz

With profound relief I dragged my bag up concrete steps and opened the door to a sublet in Burbank.  The California setting sun and soft purple twilight air turned the shabby little joint into a Joni Mitchell song, from the wood-paneled

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12 Years Ago by Maya Gurantz

With profound relief I dragged my bag up concrete steps and opened the door to a sublet in Burbank.  The California setting sun and soft purple twilight air turned the shabby little joint into a Joni Mitchell song, from the wood-paneled

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Abandonment (from Correspondence with Babak Ghazi) by Beatrice Schulz

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Be A Trice <trixie.loftschulz@gmail.com> wrote: Yes, a certain amount of abandonment is necessary, but if my immediate reaction is one of indifference then I end the kiss before I have had time

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Abandonment (from Correspondence with Babak Ghazi) by Beatrice Schulz

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Be A Trice <trixie.loftschulz@gmail.com> wrote: Yes, a certain amount of abandonment is necessary, but if my immediate reaction is one of indifference then I end the kiss before I have had time

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Fourteen Scores for Rebirth by Samantha Cohen

    1.Put on a pastel silk slip or a clean white sheath. Wear an eye mask and cover yourself in white down comforters and sheets. If you don’t have these things, announce that this is for an art project

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Fourteen Scores for Rebirth by Samantha Cohen

    1.Put on a pastel silk slip or a clean white sheath. Wear an eye mask and cover yourself in white down comforters and sheets. If you don’t have these things, announce that this is for an art project

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“Autobiography or Self” & “Biography and Self” by Charlotte Lieberman

  Autobiography or Self-Portrait After Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas It was this time, it was now. It was only this time this short time after some other this time that Picasso painted did paint this portrait

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“Autobiography or Self” & “Biography and Self” by Charlotte Lieberman

  Autobiography or Self-Portrait After Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas It was this time, it was now. It was only this time this short time after some other this time that Picasso painted did paint this portrait

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Beginnings (Clothes, Letters, Sky, Sound) by Marcus Civin

Dreams are not terrible enough. Reality can be far worse. Dreams end. You always wake up from dreams. Heavy-hyper-breathing couriers carried missives that sit now, stocking the wooden, nailed-together mail cubby at home. I had imagined that the worst part

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Beginnings (Clothes, Letters, Sky, Sound) by Marcus Civin

Dreams are not terrible enough. Reality can be far worse. Dreams end. You always wake up from dreams. Heavy-hyper-breathing couriers carried missives that sit now, stocking the wooden, nailed-together mail cubby at home. I had imagined that the worst part

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Poems by Charlotte Lieberman with photos by Alexandra Pacheco Garcia

Bedroom Scene Looking through this window, here the street is desolate.   Also accompanied by a certain warmth that is different   than a certain desire for relief, cold, as in this sky continuing   to be something I might

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Poems by Charlotte Lieberman with photos by Alexandra Pacheco Garcia

Bedroom Scene Looking through this window, here the street is desolate.   Also accompanied by a certain warmth that is different   than a certain desire for relief, cold, as in this sky continuing   to be something I might

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Lets Get it On by rl goldberg

  motown night high as who the fuck cares. are you as lonely as i am? not sure what that means, to be this lonely, maybe it means being in a place where i can’t get a bootycall and that

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Lets Get it On by rl goldberg

  motown night high as who the fuck cares. are you as lonely as i am? not sure what that means, to be this lonely, maybe it means being in a place where i can’t get a bootycall and that

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Cadaver poems by Nadia Gaber

untitled  But for you. three pale strips of flesh trimmed, square draped delicately across the bridge of your nose like dough set aside as lattice or clay, for teacup handles each kept from crawling back to offer shade by one pearl-ended hat pin

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Cadaver poems by Nadia Gaber

untitled  But for you. three pale strips of flesh trimmed, square draped delicately across the bridge of your nose like dough set aside as lattice or clay, for teacup handles each kept from crawling back to offer shade by one pearl-ended hat pin

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CICELY BETWEEN MY KNEES by RL Goldberg

  CICELY BETWEEN MY KNEES Cicely and I have been best friends since college. We were pretty much inseparable when we met at the campus dining hall. We were both waiting in line at the vegetable bar. When we graduated

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CICELY BETWEEN MY KNEES by RL Goldberg

  CICELY BETWEEN MY KNEES Cicely and I have been best friends since college. We were pretty much inseparable when we met at the campus dining hall. We were both waiting in line at the vegetable bar. When we graduated

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Sarina (in three parts) by Iman James

  Sarina, download   I. Mia was running late; she was supposed to be at the park to meet some friends for a Sunday picnic ten minutes ago. Surely, all would be fine on this lazy Sunday afternoon, as time

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Sarina (in three parts) by Iman James

  Sarina, download   I. Mia was running late; she was supposed to be at the park to meet some friends for a Sunday picnic ten minutes ago. Surely, all would be fine on this lazy Sunday afternoon, as time

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From Shaylanna’s Sketchbook, courtesy of Black & Pink

A little bit about me. I’m 27 years old and I’m from the Upper Westside (Grand and Garden) in Buffalo,  New York. I was born in Savannah, GA (directly South). When I was forced into smuggling drugs, I lived all over

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From Shaylanna’s Sketchbook, courtesy of Black & Pink

A little bit about me. I’m 27 years old and I’m from the Upper Westside (Grand and Garden) in Buffalo,  New York. I was born in Savannah, GA (directly South). When I was forced into smuggling drugs, I lived all over

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Saint Valentine

by Christopher Johnson-Roberson   His body shattered by stones or other acts known only to God. A lily stem aslant in a glass jar, its petals fallen off, all fragrance gone from them, only the stamen sticking out, its anthers

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Saint Valentine

by Christopher Johnson-Roberson   His body shattered by stones or other acts known only to God. A lily stem aslant in a glass jar, its petals fallen off, all fragrance gone from them, only the stamen sticking out, its anthers

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How An Oyster Makes His Shell, by RL Goldberg

  When I asked how she got a splinter up there, she said she tripped on a tree stump while she was looking for a place to get stoned, but the truth was, it was a broomstick, and she didn’t

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How An Oyster Makes His Shell, by RL Goldberg

  When I asked how she got a splinter up there, she said she tripped on a tree stump while she was looking for a place to get stoned, but the truth was, it was a broomstick, and she didn’t

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