The MotherHood
/I wrote this piece when...
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... exhausted New Mother
attached a photograph with a small smile
at 3 am while fighting to keep...
By Raeesabegam Usmani
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The Deeds That…
/…all women like giving oral;
and men just ask them if they spit or swallow?
Some men prefer to give a woman…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreElephant in the Room
/…mind the elephant in the room
Shake off those shivers of doom
For, if we ignore his plight,
Mightn’t he just fade from…
By Fran Pearce
Read MoreIn The Distance
/…sits on her porch
Enjoying the breeze
Antique rocking chair
Knitting on her…
By Margaret Karim
Read MoreThe Club
/It's not a club you can choose to join.
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…few lines read from an interview have remained in my mind ever since. I thought it was the 1965 Nat Hentoff Playboy interview with Bob Dylan. It wasn’t. I’ve reread that interview on the internet and two more besides. I can’t find the interview I recall. Maybe it was in Rolling Stone, or the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreUnsocial Order
/…the days when the uneducated understood their limitations
Preferring to listen in measured acquiescence to scholarly advice,
whose true research follows obediently, the path of…
By Marc Charette
Read MoreTrumpet Soliloquy: Trapped Torrent
/A selection from my chapbook…
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…blows raw and sour
Deaf to pedestrian complaints,
Society,
Thin-skinned prey assaulted…
By Douglas Glenn Clark
Read MoreConscience of Society
/…society can’t spare us
We can’t spare our society
Mutually giving and taking
Both depend on each…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreWigan Road Partygate
/The suspense continues…
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…wheelie bin is lying on its side and a vixen is squatting, backend lowered, peeing over black plastic bags. She turns her head as the vans pull up, blue lights flashing in…
By Elaine Dubourdieu
Read MoreSapphire Beginnings To Strange Endings
/…beginnings,
Clean slated with no baggages
entering poised with blessed innocence,
smeared with…
By Preethi Saravanakumar
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