• ‘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. ...

   
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• ‘grey dawn’ by Yvonne Sullivan

  grey dawn
  thin old moon
  alone and radiant

   
• by Lidia Ostepeev

  Bollywood ringtones
  Brighten my film noire mornings
  On suburban trains

   
• ‘Rapunzel goes exploring’ by Rosanne Bersten

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

   
• ‘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 ...

   
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• ‘Night Frequencies’ by David McCooey

  The lights in the street
  are gold or white or blue.

  The primitive grass says nothing
  of what’s to come. ...

   

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