everything
for love. For love
-fused fear.
For grief.
Allison Cobb
from the book
After We All Died /
Ahsahta Press
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- October 25, 2026
Eric Sneathen
Like leftovers in the fridge, find a way
To whisper to me. To smile and enchant,
- October 24, 2026
Jess Smith
Dear ladder to nowhere, dear Escher sketch
made manifest, thank you for allowing
my broke, hungover body to climb to you,
- October 23, 2026
Jenny Irish
On the lam, in the churned and cratered aftermath of a clear-cut on a mountainside, the metal womb finds the skeletonized remains of two eaglets, their bones two preserved all tidily together in the failed protection of a nest.
- October 22, 2026
L Scully
I am blinking like an automated speed meter. I did not make a rookie
mistake with my love this morning.
- October 21, 2026
Jessica Nirvana Ram
My grandmother tells me you need a good tongue
in life, you gotta show love with it, you gotta demand
love with it.
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