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The Descendants of Monsters
Collapsing Intimacies
In Your Life You Will Meet Many Familiars
First Light
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Cruising
Paraph
Your Results May Vary
when i wanted to be a girl
High-Risk
On the Death from Consumption of Anton Chekov in a German Hotel Room, 1904
Dawn
Oneirophobia
The Low Tide Nocturnes
The Stranger
In the Water
A Hole is Just a Vacant Dot
Differential Force
Please don’t eat the sun
Birthday
“The part of you that speaks in your mother’s voice,” your therapist asks,
[i’ve always loved to dance]
Emergence
Canticle for the Last Leaves
Arrival Elegy
Traffic
Drive
3 Poems
Brave Woman Keeps Wolves from Body of Dead Husband1
Past in Prints
Kathy, I’m Lost
Inside the Whale
Ranch Hand
Abecedarian Break-Up Poem After Spending the Day Reading the Same 3 Children’s Books to Someone Else’s Baby
8 Ball Liturgy + When To Say No
to lamotrigine, on our 1 year anniversary + Saint Paul, Unpublished Letter, Recipient Unknown
Iftar
Star Crossed
Nested Skins
Our Squid Mother
Black Walnut Is the War Tree
I Would Like To Step Out Of My Heart And Go Walking Beneath The Enormous Sky
How I Learned to Translate Shadows
The Landscape Persists + Letter to E, Corvallis
Huitain for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
So You’re Fluent
Smile-5
Piedmonters
Save Me
As Simple as a Wish
Spawn
Blood, I Wonder (a sonnet) + Love Notes to his Dead Wife
Burdens of Mortality
Bad Vegan
Day Three (the first time)
Juniper
Seven Longs
The Grave Dowser
The Novice
The King in Black
The Bicycle Club
The Pied Piper
Little Knives
The Drowning
The Only Thing Standing Between Fantasia and Nothingness
Ekphrasis: “Nymphs Finding The Head Of Orpheus,” John William Waterhouse, 1901
Quandaries
Hardware
White Belief
Sermon on the Rocks
Won’t Not
Turn Back the Clock, But Only for an Afternoon
2 Poems
My Body Is A Jungle Gym
When I Announce That I’m Pregnant
O Ghetto Tree Our Tree Of Heaven
Sunday Waves
A Recipe For Disaster
Message From the Moths
For the Jumbotron
2 Flash Fictions
All The World Isn’t Falling
3 Flash Fictions
Marauder
Greenish Yellowish Houses
I call and tell my mother I’m cutting my hair + A Love Poem to Cockroaches
Wild
Notes About the Butterflies, the Moth, and the Sadness
CLARA
A Holy Union
Photosynthesis
Can We Be Difficult Together?
Bandrui
Topple
Accumulation
Jolene at 33
Sinter
Cain
Lesson Plan
Landscape With User Instructions
Archipelago
Inheritance + Sorry
jeffrey like a giant
Hers
Seek Shelter Immediately
The Kids Are Cute AF Though
Overkill
Canteen
Intimates
Imported: Fruit
Teenage Landlord
Peacock
The Opposite of Sin
The Mermaids’ Smoke Rings
12:12
Hank the Tank
Thirteen Covers
The Midwinter
Housesitting
When Will She Ever
Aphorism 42: If You Were As Innocent As You Pretend To Be We’d Never Get Anywhere
Lucifer Harps on Beauty
If I Drink the Violets,
Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother, Earth
The Cult of Yakushima Island
Past the Farallones
Like Meals, Everything Ends
Eating Frogs
paige
epigenetics or: the names we were given
You are who you owe yourself to
arbor {before & possibly after}
3 Poems
The Heights of Inanimate Things
Collection
The Good Reverend
For Hire
The Patron Saint of Loving Bad Men
Words are Made for Ministration
Shark’s Tooth
Torn
The Aliens Deliver Us From Evil
The Feejee Mermaid Falls to Earth
Patroness
A Healing
Brian the Lion Hunter
Origin Story: Apollo Speaks
Conversations with My Aunt
Before the Hard Freeze
Social Media
Eric Cortez
On Past Suicidal Ideations
Three Ghazals: an Elegy
Omphalos : Epoch
214 West Euclid Ave
Rift
10 Stories From The Bible In No Particular Order
A Lucky Man
Ghost Puppy
On Some Excuses For Feeling Pierced By Existence
Domestic Panic
Love Construct in the Covidicene
Sorry To Bug You, I Got Something To Say
The Jaguar Tattoo
Man or Mouse
The Cul de Sacs
The Attentions of Dangerous Men
Trains
How to Exorcise a Ghost
Rob the Bank, Butter the Kitchen
Morning Traffic
To the Plastic Bag At the Bottom of the Mariana Trench
You Ask Your Birth Mom What Her Favorite Color Is (You’ve Never Asked Me That Question)
Pennies From Heaven
Essay on Identifying an Asterism
property tax
Say
The Mechanical Bird Writes an Ars Poetica (Dear X, -B)
Another Balikbayan In Which Ma Asks Her Kids To Go To Mass With Her Pero No One Ever Does
Mm!
Indifference + Edgewood Creek
Boogie Town
Extremes of Human Endurance
Lifespan of the Fathead Minnow
Elfland
Dogs of War
Feral
Five Percent
The Field Party #61
Fear of Abundance
Brennan
To speak of
Ancestor Mirror
Night, and the Coffers are Empty
Paroxysm
Surrender
The Making of the Third Child
John Cena Loves Me
2 Flash Fictions from “The Apocalypse”
Brown Recluse
Spite House
A Brief History of the Navel Orange in California
Queens of the Universe
Love Poem
And Oedipus Answered the Sphinx:
Indiana
A Doctor’s Glossary of Terms for the Female Body
Some Might Say Grace
My Cheese Soufflé Has Collapsed!
Ode to Monday Morning Runs in Central Park
How Rain Appears
Risk/Reward
Blur
To Answer in the Affirmative re: Distinguishing Marks
The Mysteries of Patio Vistahermosa
Bad Trick List
ABC
Shimmer
Ouija Board
The Inheritors
Sheepshank
Kissing Against Solipsism
Accommodating
The Conversation
Pre Pointe Exercises
My Lottery Tickets Are All Duds
The Way I Can’t Breathe When I Think of You
Brevity
searched
The Industry of Edmonton
A Black Woman Gets a Window Seat on Aer Lingus
Softball
There’s Nothing Past This
Years
Some Things You Can Ask Me
Ransom
Big Stone Lake
Rue du Cherche-Midi
Taxol
summer, like a nosebleed
Another Aftershock
Persephone Waits for Spring
You Demand Nothing
Waltz of the White Bird a Cloud Against the Sky
No Hay Luz
Anyone Going Knows Already What’s Gone
The Right Place
Is That Mushroom or Ash
Juana Catarina
When Zac, 32, Strolls In IRL
IDOL
Perceived Distance
Still Life With Splenectomy
bone requires bone #13-15
things i have learned
Delovely
Little Washington
Big Cats
Relief
Watching Planes Take Off in Late Evening While High on Shrooms
Mount Saint Helens
The Papers Read: Today, She Was Stolen
Waste Natures
Birth Day
Instructions for Humility
Wi-Fi in a Museum
Do You Know How Awful It Is?
3 Flash Fictions
Hannah
Happy Lucky Gas
Blue Monday
Supermarket Bouquet
White Caps Spilt to Sea
The Great Bear
The Photographer
Medusa in Paradise
Someday
The Second Bride
Lunar Breaks
The Weight on My Back
2017 Poetry Contest Honorable Mention: Snowbird
2017 Poetry Contest Honorable Mention: Relaxing Sounds for Sleeping
On Judging of the Death of Another
The Helicopter Patients
Circles
We Are Not Responsible
Mechanics of Causality
Notice of Proposed Land Use Action
Pacifica Interviews: Brit Bennett
Flooding the Moon
Finding + Destination
Wishbone
he says he’s maddecent: the vapors
On The Fifth Rib
Her Dance
Botany
Six Variations Upon Ayn Rand’s Profession of Love for Her Husband, Each Concerning a Discrete Human Element
Taking Liberty
Your Man for a Prison
Hustlers
Guillotine
Fight
How Do I Fit This Ghost In My Mouth
Excerpts from ‘Glass City’
The Origins of Poetry
*
A Tea Party of Contemporaneous Proportions
Creative Non Contest Honorable Mention: Seven Cities of Good
Reward
After the Fact
Some mornings I don’t want to put on clothes because I know I’ll eventually have to take them off
Sugar Blizzard of the Wishful Thought
Floorboards
The Humpback’s Wardrobe
The Balloon or the Ballerina
Hoops
Transient
The Waiting Dream
What I Kept To Myself
When My Parents Were Hippopotamuses
Look and Leap Contest Winners Audio
Release
Like Birds, We Will Fly Away
Deployment
Spirits of the Motherland
The Elm
The Search Function
12
Fire and Milk
Arms
Little Switzerland
I Turned Out Pretty Good
You Must Believe In Spring
Paleontology
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Afro-Seattleite Fragment #15: Jimi Hendrix Plays “The Star-Spangled Banner” – Woodstock, 1969
How To Disappear
Triptych
King and Queen
Ghost Story
Suckered
What’s Confusing
Excerpt: “King of Joy”
Field Trip
Countable Minutes
Three Rabbits
Busboy
Everything
When the Cold Names Its Ghosts /// by Ronda Broatch
The Police Artist’s Sketch /// by Ace Boggess
2015 Poetry Contest Finalists
5×5 /// by Caitlin Johnson
Shem /// by Monera Mason
Wild Flowers /// by Kara Daly
Fires /// by Jeff Whitney
Ephemeroptera /// by Brian Cooney
Komfort Kats /// by Thomas Mundt
I Lose Track of the Variables /// by Joannie Stangeland
Fractured Identity & The Freak Show: an Interview with Valerie Bandura /// by Lacy Arnett, Audrey Camp, & Valerie Bandura
Common Sense /// by Sarah Shotwell
Wedded to the Sea /// by Maura Stanton
It’s the Goatsucker, Homes /// by Rachel Mindell
When Will You Be Off Paper? /// by Ace Boggess
Date Book /// by Genevieve Hudson
Caldera /// by Jeremy Hawkins
We Are A Teeming Wilderness /// by Shena McAuliffe
Ugly Babies /// by Jillian Quinn
Forwards /// by Rachel Hermans Goldman
In Violent Protection /// by Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
How Whalesongs Were Invented /// by Alicia Lai
We Were /// by Travis Sharp
What Comes Next /// by Shelley Wood
Christy /// by Catherine Simpson
Pacifica Interviews: Maya Sonenberg
The Curmudgeon /// by Jim Hanley
Birthday, Again /// by Julie Feng
Pacifica Interviews: Rebecca Hoogs
Jellyfish Lake
The Key /// by Sarah Salcedo
Big Alabama and the Pearsal Bully /// by James Valvis
Tiger Heaven /// by Patricia Marquez
What Went Down With the Ship /// by Bruce McRae
A Shudder, To Think /// by Michael Pagan
Springtime /// by Kristen Steenbeeke
Red Planet /// by Jo Ann Heydron
292 /// by Owen Lucas
Typewriter /// by Olga Vilkotskaya
Life on Mars + Devil’s Racetrack /// by William Bradley & Emily Isaacson
Arse Poetica /// by Leena Joshi
Practice /// by Paul Vega
An Act of Justice /// by William Doreski
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