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our queer love on a Tuesday, by Lavvynder Rose
104 today rest my eyes on a mid-century wine glass. yours fall elsewhere, oven safe-pumpkin orange-dishware the green reminds me of you...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Stranger in the Land, by Ronald M Raynes
He came to me late in the night, Like in a dream, somehow disconnected, I could see his face, the image hovering. There is time between...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
To Hear Your Voice, by Ronald M Raynes
All I wanted was to hear your voice, That mild sound of clear water rippling Almost silently amid rounded stones. You washed away the...
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Jan 27, 20231 min read
I’ve been sitting on this line for five years wishing it was never true, by Lexy Roberts
I can hear the commas in your voice now. Your pausing before you speak As if you're now a writer Measuring stanzas couplets Probably...
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Jan 27, 20232 min read
Abandoned, by KS
1. My mind thinks of you often, and I wish that it wouldn’t. I began sharing my feelings, but you said you couldn’t. You were my friend...
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Aug 31, 20221 min read
Your Sorrow is Not Your Own, by Angela Harger
What can you do when your bone-deep sorrow is turned against you by the very ones who covenanted to mourn with those who mourn? When they...
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Jun 7, 20222 min read
Free, by Zoë
i. cover up. you shouldn’t show your knees, your shoulders, or your chest. otherwise, you run the risk of making men uncomfortable. and...
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Jun 7, 20221 min read
The Shadow, Anon
The shadow follows me everywhere in the form of a black cat. Lonely and desperate. Longing for attention. Sad and miserable. Soulless....
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Mar 28, 20221 min read
Rainbow Parade, by Sierra Larson
Let your light so shine A light on the hill Lit up in rainbow colors For the world to see All my life I was told it’s a sin To indulge...
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Jan 18, 20222 min read
"house // home," by anonymous
you’re homesick for a place that doesn’t exist— they call this hiraeth, a word which sounds all too pleasant for what it means— for what...
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Jan 18, 20221 min read
Not All Blood is Sacred, by A. Lux
It is 2 pm and my mind is loud I know only one way to silence it. I tear my skin apart, This skin that fits too tight I run the blade...
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Sep 13, 20213 min read
Fish, Anon
this is where everyone comes to meet their bird of paradise, the posters say in fine printed blood. you tremble. this is where everyone...
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Sep 2, 20211 min read
In Remembrance of His Body, Anon
If the church is the body of Christ, Then I am a sliver that the body slowly expelled. I think slivers want to stay in the body. Little...
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Aug 31, 20212 min read
Five Poems, The Wrong Order by Ari Glass
Poem Number 1: The Wrong Order They messed up my order, I'm not a girl. I must have someone else's body. The fit is all wrong, too tight...
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Aug 6, 20211 min read
snakes with hollow teeth, anon
if somehow, what I know in my gut to be true and what God has told me Himself speaking to my soul to be true ends up being a falsified...
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Aug 2, 20218 min read
Jubilation, by Kit Hompstead
I’m only seven when I hear it first. “My mom says that my uncle can’t come over anymore because he’s gay.” “What’s gay?” I rub the corner...
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Jul 30, 20211 min read
Both and Nothing, by Anon
“Mom, how do you know what gender a baby is?” She looked up from the dishes I didn’t like that look “Oh, moms just, know!” “But how?” And...
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Jul 29, 20212 min read
Hidden Truth, by Julie
I didn’t come out again this weekend. I defended people who do. I’m not really in the closet. Everyone who matters and most of the people...
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Jun 2, 20211 min read
Swimming Lessons, by Kerry Pray
I tried to write a sad poem because the ache had gone from my head to my chest and I Couldn’t remember why it was I’d decided to take a...
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Apr 7, 20211 min read
Elephants Worship the Moon, by Jaclyn Foster
Elephants worship the moon Or so I've been told, waving branches and boughs in their holy places. The moon never answers back, of course,...
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