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Blimp Wheeze | Susan N. Aassahde
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Like a Poem | Ananya S. Guha
If the road is deserted and you see a cat ambling across, will it have one or nine lives? If the weather-beaten flower dies, is it reborn? And when dousing passions I write a poem, will it get printed or forgotten? In myriad dreams, how do we interpret? Dreams a waking call, cats do not…
X-Ray Vision [by Nin Andrews]
When I was a child, back in the 60’s, there were these ads in the back of comic books for Xray glasses that could see through clothes. One day in second grade, Tommy Craven, who sat next to me, came to school with a pair and began ogling the girls. “I see your underwear!” he…
“Sweet William” [by Ern Malley]
Sweet William I have avoided your wide English eyes: But now I am whirled in their vortex. My blood becomes a Damaged Man Most like your Albion; And I must go with stone feet Down the staircase of flesh To where in a shuddering embrace My toppling opposites commit The obscene, the unforgivable rape. One…
Plane Overhead
Made a guess at hearing the plane you were on leaving across the sea overheadas I looked up from my balcony breadcrustwith your home emptied of your books,and clothes, as my books gather dustand wardrobe hangs like lead,moth-eaten with wanderlust. I guess you’re halfway done with hereand halfway done with thereas, like you say, it…