• by Lidia Ostepeev

  Bollywood ringtones
  Brighten my film noire mornings
  On suburban trains

   
• ‘Chick Lit’ by Vivian Yang

  I am a chick
  You don’t call it lit
  But I read it.
  I am the protagonist
  The girl who loses part of herself ...

   
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• ‘by the creek’ by Emilie Zoey Baker

  a Dusky Moor Hen
  drinks
  some of its home

   
• ‘Hurt Sonnet’ by Justin Clemens

  I’m listening to Hurt, which Johnny Cash
  now sings: the needle’s in his voice, a ghost
  lends him its wings, and even with the clash ...

   
• ‘Self Esteem?’ by Sigourney Young

  Do my ears look big in this?
  You’d tell me if they did,
  Right?
  Cause my forearm clashes with my pants. ...

   
• ‘Rapunzel goes exploring’ by Rosanne Bersten

  She’s a delicate rose
  Found in flowery prose
  And I’m not her. ...

   
• ‘Happiness’ by Chi Vu

  She bought a new car, a
  4WD, and for the first
  time in her life, she
  was still unhappy.

   
• ‘da Vinci’s List’ by Alicia Sometimes

  Leonardo da Vinci wrote a list
  of things he wanted to know:
  the cause of tickling
  the tongue of the woodpecker ...

   

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