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    • May 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    "The Minotaur Mind" by Samara Garfinkle

    Winding and twisting, this sinewy labyrinth listlessly folds in on itself, a maze-like bud that opens fearfully to the footfalls of man,...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    "Map" by Willow Loveday Little

    A maze mouths a non-linear A to B, a linguistic start To end but a labyrinth spirals inward ad infinitum In effect unicursal as a whorl...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    "Sir Arthur Evans" by Matthew Rettino

    All my paths have led to Knossos: to this site, this stretch of soil. With trowel and brush I sculpt the palace, a labyrinth of toil, the...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Two Poems by Ilona Martonfi

    Guernica The village's been here, here where we're standing by the Urdaibai estuary inscribed in the sand of skulls Octavio Vázquez's...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    "Thunderclouds Wear a Cloak" and "Even Crows" by Danielle Wong

    Thunderclouds Wear a Cloak Thunderclouds can follow people indoors invisible to all but the person they follow Even Crows The crow caws...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    "Across the Crops" by Tamara Nazywalskyj

    Across the Crops here comes sunday brunch and i romanticize the whole thing stretching it like bubble gum out of my mouth and around my...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    "On An Island" by Derek Godin

    I see evidence of a master builder in your bed of cypress branches, your pillow of interlaced swan feathers. Sorrow has not hindered your...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    "The Gilded Cage" by Devon Gallant

    You can walk in a line and still be lost. This is the lesson you are here to learn. Caught in a widdendream you cannot leave, hoof...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    "Prometheus" by Mirabel

    You were innocent, wanting fire for livelihood. Licked you charred, didn't it feel liquor-sweet, the waste it made? You're paying for it...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    "Perseus" by John William Wither

    the scream is the voice gone raw and can only be from the Minotaur William John Wither is a speculative fiction writer living in...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    "Ariadne" by Jerome Ramcharitar

    My mother spoke a dark language in secret. Her syllables wove my first memories. Just as my mother died, she whispered her last words...
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    devongallant
    • May 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    "Daedaliana" by James Dunnigan

    the walls are to be thirty cubits high for three hundred cubits of length fifty the width—the animal inside half bull bull of a man born...
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    • May 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    "White Sail/Black Sail" by George Slobodzian

    (Aegeus' Lament—as performed by the ghost of Peter O’Toole) Do not loosen the bulging mouth of the wineskin until you have reached the...
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