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When All Your Seeds Fail
by Amanda Roth

May 16, 2022 Contributed By: Amanda Roth, Heather Hua

seeds fail amanda roth heather hua

Try compost – scraps / piled into a heap. The forgotten things / are begging for another life. Let’s say you could / get the dirt to sing.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: May 16, 2022

*
by Simon Perchik

May 12, 2022 Contributed By: Ryan Rusiecki, Simon Perchik

* Perchik Rusiecki

wobbling from some near-by breeze / reaching down as the hillside / where her shadow should be

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: May 12, 2022

MAYDAY Announces Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest

May 5, 2022

Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest

Submissions are open for the MAYDAY Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest! Deadline to submit is July 31.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Hybrid, Poetry Posted On: May 5, 2022

Human Sacrifice
by Krista Leahy

May 5, 2022 Contributed By: Krista Leahy

Human Sacrifice

Wall, enemy, ally, shadow, tree, a toddler / given freedom to roam, requires one // banana-nut muffin, many hands, 56 / minutes to walk one Brooklyn city block.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: May 5, 2022

Unbelong
by Mandira Pattnaik

April 28, 2022 Contributed By: Mandira Pattniak, Rosabel Rosalind

Unbelong Mandira Pattnaik Babka Sky Rosabel Rosalind

Did you see a hapless, hunted woman, baby in arms? Her stare’s hollow. // Ahead of her, there’s a slithering line beaded with nowhere people.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: April 28, 2022

While my Wife Is in the Hospital Recovering from a Stroke
by Richard-Yves Sitoski

April 21, 2022 Contributed By: Richard-Yves Sitoski, Ryan Rusiecki

While my Wife Is in the Hospital Recovering from a Stroke

There’s nothing to eat but fruit from baskets sent by friends // and I couldn’t care less about the fate of the world.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: April 21, 2022

Weeds
by Barbara Schwartz

April 14, 2022 Contributed By: Barbara Schwartz, Rosabel Rosalind

Carrot Madonna and Pietà Diptych by Rosabel Rosalind

I think I am my savior’s thoughts, the stubborn beautiful ones / who refuse to go. It’s a temple in here / though I do not know // the prayers.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: April 14, 2022

Empress of Ice Cream
by Barbara Schwartz

April 7, 2022 Contributed By: Barbara Schwartz

After by Ann Calandro

Hunger sneaks up // like two fingers flicking a pink / succulent moon.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: April 7, 2022

Signed for the Unsigned
by Stella Santamaría

March 31, 2022 Contributed By: Leah Oates, Stella Santamaría

Transitory Space

/ imported by the cities of / howling beach =artificial coral / on the bone knife of my corona / ring of past

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: March 31, 2022

Scaffold
by Jad Josey

March 24, 2022 Contributed By: Jad Josey

Rear view mirror above road

How to say that we are all / of these stars, that I want / the suffering I cause to be less / than the raindrops on the fern fronds / outside their fog-blurred windows

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: March 24, 2022

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