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"Captivity" by Carolyne Van Der Meer
I look at you, measuring whether I’m fearful your dark eye darting your unease, wildness here in this basement room my refuge, where you...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
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"Randy Refuses to Go to Town" by Jacalyn den Haan
He wouldn’t take her to the city. He would keep her safe beside himself, in his arms. Dead but still singing. On his peeling doorstep,...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
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"Montreal in the Summertime" and "Tahiti Fusion" by Katie Cossette
Montreal in the Summertime Câlice, c’est chaud en tabarnak… So where are you two from? Canada… Pas d’argent, besoin manger… If Legault...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
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"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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May 4, 20212 min read
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"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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May 4, 20211 min read
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"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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May 4, 20211 min read
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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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May 4, 20211 min read
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"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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May 4, 20211 min read
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"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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May 4, 20211 min read
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"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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May 4, 20211 min read
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"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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May 4, 20212 min read
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"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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May 4, 20211 min read
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"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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May 4, 20211 min read
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"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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May 4, 20212 min read
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"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, 20213 min read
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"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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May 4, 20212 min read
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Sand by Jerome Ramcharitar
1. Dreams deep enough have an infinite echo, as if the time within them borrows from other lives, or that the forgotten worlds between...
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Dec 29, 20201 min read
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Grandmother by Jerome Ramcharitar
I am with her and beside her and away from myself. Like Victoria Beach sand, the diner is loosely packed. Through the glass, I see...
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Dec 29, 20201 min read
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Dad's Dream by Bryan Sentes
A winter highway in Saskatchewan (like some scene out of Fargo) A car in the ditch He opens the trunk and sees himself dead A...
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Dec 29, 20201 min read
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Diagram of Part of the Imagination by William John Wither
(text version of image 2) I have dreamt of the same room for the past seven days it is a room that you know; a room stitched...
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Dec 29, 20201 min read
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