Jack Cooper “Shao”
Jack Cooper Shao I love like waterbreathing, chest pressured by every breath stolen with you. Jack Cooper is a neuroscience student at the University of Oxford. He tries to impress his arty friends...
View ArticleRoderick Bates “The Light Bouncing off Kelly Davio”
Roderick Bates The Light Bouncing off Kelly Davio and into his rheumy eyes may be the only bright thing in the shady old man’s life. Roderick Bates edits Rat’s Ass Review and has published poems in The...
View ArticleEric Burke “Crystallization”
Today is the 3rd Anniversary of One Sentence Poems. Our first poem was Eric Burke’s “The Grand Tour.” We note our anniversary, as we did on our 1st & 2nd anniversaries, with a poem by Eric. Your...
View ArticleIon Corcos “Old Paths”
Ion Corcos Old Paths Even the stone is laden with history, red paint a signpost to a mule track. Ion Corcos is currently traveling full-time and enjoys writing about nature and life.
View ArticleH. Edgar Hix “Divine Providence”
H. Edgar Hix Divine Providence Before you condemn Noah for incompetence, consider that you’ve never actually smelled unicorn farts. H. Edgar Hix is still in a state of shock and trying to discover what...
View ArticleWilliam Cullen, Jr. “Standing by Your Grave on Your Birthday”
William Cullen, Jr. Standing by Your Grave on Your Birthday How noisy birth is with the new born bawling as if it already had a foreboding of a quiet place where the grass is always cut and the leaves...
View ArticleMark Seidl “The Enthusiasts”
Mark Seidl The Enthusiasts They stand at the thick spools of chain clasping and slowly unclasping their hands. Mark Seidl is a writer and rare-books librarian based in Upstate New York.
View ArticleMark Seidl “The Landlord’s Statement”
Mark Seidl The Landlord’s Statement It got so you couldn’t name the killer without someone else naming the killer next door. Mark Seidl is a writer and rare-books librarian based in Upstate New York.
View ArticleJohn J. Trause “Victoria’s Secret”
John J. Trause Victoria’s Secret She wears men’s underwear. John J. Trause, a librarian, scholar, and author of five books of poetry and one of parody, is also the subject of a 30-on-30-in-30 essay on...
View ArticleJohn J. Trause “On Being Bored to Distraction . . .”
John J. Trause On Being Bored to Distraction by a Well-Connected But Boring Poet at a Reading of Her Boring Poems About Her Experiences in Greece That Sound Like Everyone Else’s Boring Poems About...
View ArticleJohn J. Trause “Accident”
John J. Trause Accident Our safe word was “more.” John J. Trause, a librarian, scholar, and author of five books of poetry and one of parody, is also the subject of a 30-on-30-in-30 essay on The...
View ArticleMark Young “theremin lies a question”
Mark Young theremin lies a question Will Dr Robert Moog be synthesized now that he has passed away? Mark Young‘s most recent book is some more strange meteorites which came out from Meritage & i.e....
View ArticleMark Young “only what you take with you”
Mark Young only what you take with you Nine hours into the Star Wars marathon, my feet drop off, the Danube overflows, & I am reduced to conjugating irregular verbs in Esperanto. Mark Young‘s most...
View ArticleHowie Good “Belated Elegy for a Tough Jew”
Howie Good Belated Elegy for a Tough Jew If it were now, you would’ve gone to the police, but there were no laws then, just this guy in a leather jacket, and when you wore that, nothing bad could...
View ArticleJulie Reeser “Between the Spaces”
Julie Reeser Between the Spaces Sometimes a smile is just teeth, Scylla and Charybdis, gnashing at grief deep underneath the eyes seeking auspices in lank body language as we meet and greet each...
View ArticleElizabeth Alford “My Lips Recall the Hills”
Elizabeth Alford My Lips Recall the Hills My lips recall the hills and valleys of your body: the dips, the gentle swells of flesh like fertile earth, the curvature of hips and breasts beckoning like...
View ArticlePeter Bakowski “After the diagnosis”
Peter Bakowski After the diagnosis The wind blows Jeff’s list of errands across the hospital carpark. Melbourne-born and based, Peter Bakowski fell in love with the map of the world at the age of six.
View ArticleMelissa Fite Johnson “Saturday Night Conversation”
Melissa Fite Johnson Saturday Night Conversation When I asked Mom why Dad didn’t go to church, she stopped chopping onions but didn’t set down her knife, said her dad hadn’t gone to church either, like...
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Melissa Fite Johnson As a Child, Dylan Klebold Loved Origami His mother sat with him at the kitchen table, lifted the coffee mug, heard through all the closed windows of her house a plane somewhere in...
View ArticleLuigi Coppola “Coasters”
Luigi Coppola Coasters How we fled across a field filled with snow, feet bare, the need to crush the white outweighing the need for socks, shoes, shows more about ourselves than how, once ice, our...
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