Visual Arts
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Poetry: “gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABA”, Featuring Image: “Friend in Me”
gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABA worry is another love, to worry is to love sweet talismans of take care / be well not enough to guard against metal sharpened teeth biting down on inner cheeks, salted salivary shame flowing down through lips. my mother’s love is worried cuticles, scorched forearms forcing a plastic lid…
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Poetry: “Swallow a Beginning”, Featuring Image: “Samedi 01.12.2019, Toulouse”
Swallow a Beginning I have a death wish. I wish death upon those who wish me ill and look through my cellular walls, decide I am a nucleus weakened from the world’s arsenal of surveillance. Do you see me through impact ending life blood on your phone screen? Do you feel it…
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Poetry: “Lucky Penny”, Featuring Image: “Vertigo”
Lucky Penny He laid the penny down dug deep from his layered rags this stranger on the street at the corner outside the coffee shop. He laid the penny down with care and consideration…
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Poetry: “Blue Fig”, Featuring Image: “Purple Yam”
blue fig my shoulder bone hooks soft and bruised beneath your arm tenderly threaded hands slide inside blush of blood wrists rotate round waist cupped together cold limbs blanket from arching branch in the windy night smell of sweetness against your winter jacket our flesh leaks Written By: Lisa Graves About the Author:…
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Poetry: “Autumn in New York”, Featuring Image: “The Fog”
songbook: Autumn in New York Why does it seem, long after I left, long after she left, autumn invites Aunt Stella down from her penthouse to walk her way into it, just a few blocks east, until 93rd stops being west. And the hurried grid of Manhattan spread-eagles suddenly onto rocks and grass and…
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Poetry: “Three Cloves of Garlic”, Featuring Image: “Lion Chops”
Three Cloves of Garlic The members of the allium family remained whole, its Gilroy roots still bonded together, hidden underneath the dry soil along the narrow highway but the Romeros lost a 6-year old, standing 4ft tall, a chubby cheeked smile, and as an arid light breeze blew through the festive food court, a…
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Fiction: “Miss Pandora”, Featuring Image: “Geary”
Miss Pandora The man who identified himself as Mr. Foley, looked at me from across the table. “The only responsibility you’ll have is to take care of my mother’s pet birds.” “That seems simple enough”, I said. “Well, it isn’t.” Foley’s voice had taken on an edge. Then he sighed. “Look, there are some things…
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Fiction: “HoH”, Featuring Image: “Haze”
HOH You liked her as soon as you first heard her speak while both of you were inside the elevator on your way to the fifth floor – she with that distinct, Michelle-Pfeiffer-sultry voice that coos and mesmerizes the Fabulous Baker Boys while she sings on top of the piano. You were meant to…
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Poetry: “Courage of our Ancestors”, Featuring Image: “Maya Angelou”
Courage of our ancestor My grandmother was named after one of the Adelitas in the Mexican revolution The dresses she sewed for my sisters and cousins, were Art We walked for miles, in the Colonia de San Andres hills, selling her dresses door to door She was home for me, an inner home With her…
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Poetry: “Essential Processes to the Development of a Sense of Self”, Featuring Image: “Zion’s Watchman”
Essential Processes to the Development of a Sense of Self You string a hammock up beneath the willow within a thicket of oaks and redwoods, your body swings gently back and forth, back and forth, time to relax—inhale a deep breath of crisp fresh air, savor the soothing scents of eucalyptus, appreciate…
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