Featured poems, Fall 2023: Isolation
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Haiku (The Epic Mobile Phone App)
By: Jared Plotkin
I open my eyes
But the sun ha yet to rise… -
The Meaningful Moment
By: Anita Sacks
What is really remembered? ...
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Aphasia
By: Baani Minhas
I learned once
that great white sharks can’t be kept behind glass… -
Nude descending a locked ward (No. 6)
By: Woods Nash
The automatic doors kiss behind us, and we walk…
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Admit
By: Sara Kandler
Valet parking, thank God
steady now
glass doors, sign-in line, Covid check… -
Sky Burial
By: Vaishnavi Kolluru
Rain is pervasive in veiling
it coats you in its mystery… -
The Elevator
By: Alexandra Schwartz
In the heart of the elevator, solitude can be found… -
My first
By: Natalie Kennedy
For years, I dreamt of you…
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Tomorrow is a series of nows
By: Marmie Newton
I started yesterday in my childhood, yearning for privilege that only time could yield…
Additional poems
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Lost
By: Chidera Ubah
Bustling city,
Roaring and pretty,
The chaos passes me by… -
Woven
By: Suparna Sarkar and Neil Sarkar
Your yarn of life deftly knotted into mine…
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Standing Here
By: Frederick Licciardi
Standing here, waiting for my youth to re-apear… -
In a clinic
By: Howard Owens
You watched the difficult truth befall him
A cold lump… -
Free
By: Sara Kandler
A trip up to the Cape
in early June…. -
Either/Or
By: Bryce Saba
So tell me, friend…
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Broken
By: Christopher Lee
A Signal Transduction Pathway Infinitely More Painful for Me to Learn than Any Pathway in Introductory Biochemistry…
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A Woman's isolation
By: Kate Tolleson
You can follow me back to the room now.
Did you bring anyone with you for your visit today?
No -
Pyrrhus
By: James Brasic
The yearnings of a thousand years…
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Wisconsin Sestina
By: Nick Casellanos
Your roommate meets us with a mixed
drink, the screen door opens, collapses
shut on a room of your new friends, sauced,
but still discussing queer theory. I hover… -
Awakening
By: Margot A. Gardin
Morning peeks
through the window shades,
caressing the walls
with soft golden strokes… -
Amid film, this one
By: Yvonne Lui
Thank you, Bill
for on-calling with me
last weekend. Recalling… -
Burnout
By: Brett Gerber
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