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Our Hands Will Make Music in the Valleys
The alcoholic has bad dreams, his hands shake at night and sleep is haze and steel blue smoke, his sleep is a train running deep into the...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Therapy - Amrita V. Nair
While we are here You should take off your shoes And make yourself comfortable Unless you worry about having ugly feet Then you should...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Poem No. 3 - (for Beckett) by Marc Isaac Potter
Poem No 3 - (for Beckett) “ He was listening in the dusk … listening so intently that he did not hear her enter. “ ( from short...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jul 21, 20231 min read
Taffy Girl by Elizabeth Upshur
An acquired taste. For the cannibals we say we aren't we look at femme bodies. For the taffies better known as flatteries between liars...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jul 14, 20232 min read
I Wish I Could Teach You Locomotion - Bethany Jarmul
My daughter won’t crawl. Her legs and arms quiver to an off-beat rhythm. I invite a physical therapist into our home. The therapist...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jul 7, 20231 min read
Services at a Later Date - Robin Wright
Services at a Later Date I pick blue hydrangeas from my yard. Don’t know what to do with them. Arrange them in a vase, press them in a...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jun 16, 20231 min read
July by Aimée Keeble
The following erasure first appeared in Babel Tower Noticeboard 2020 Aimée Keeble has her Master of Letters degree from the University of...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jun 13, 20231 min read
several years later by Helen Nancy Meneilly
in air thick with rain’s threat, i pull words up like sick on string. hiding in the spaces between sounds, ammo under my tongue. alms of...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jun 6, 20231 min read
Knoxville Drag Show by Ken Pobo
I walk to The Factory, a gay bar. It’s Saturday, drag night. There’s Nancy Sinatra singing “Sugar Town” in a blond wig, long go go boots....
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jun 2, 20231 min read
field guide by Will Davis
this is where we misremember & forget- me not revisit the provided pricked flesh of pollens because there are a multitude, plucked...
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Bulb Culture Collective
May 30, 20231 min read
Roots and Rituals by Charlotte Hamrick
Roots and Rituals After the film Phantom Thread By Charlotte Hamrick when you say, Give me silence, purify my sour heart - I prepare...
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Bulb Culture Collective
May 23, 20231 min read
GRIFFITH PARK, HAUNTED THEME PARK, DUSK, 2010
Jon and Cinderella walk up the hill slowly, tired; this is the third week of work and their knees hurt; they’re sick. They’re both in...
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Bulb Culture Collective
May 19, 20232 min read
Michael's Poem by Julie Alden Cullinane
I was no good when you were a child Loving you wholly, but feeling too much All I had was love back then, not sanity or time I worry...
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Bulb Culture Collective
May 12, 20231 min read
Mob Rule by Karlo Sevilla
Consider this sea of movement, the multitude in waves. Now, deceptively calm, until by a mysterious wave of a demagogue’s hand, it shall...
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Bulb Culture Collective
May 5, 20231 min read
Mobius Trip by D. R. James
I flinch then I drift into reverie… wing-swept and flake-wept to swooping footpaths past a curved door’s stoop, rapt in a gashed globe...
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Bulb Culture Collective
May 2, 20231 min read
Almost Early Spring by D. R. James
Fern moods flicker within this rain’s haughty coven— in its strange calls to sleep and mosquitos, and to the thoughtless trillium— and...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Walking To Work by Michael Rogner
Unhurried in a realm below the acorn woodpeckers hoarding their harvest I try not to think of their bright clown faces while eating their...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Apr 25, 20232 min read
A Valentine For My Mother by Wren Donovan
On a screen-porch in Baton Rouge, real low to the ground my mother’s hands rattle the old metal peeler birthing naked potatoes pulling...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Crickets by Marc Isaac Potter
Crickets have Long held A sacred contract With worms, knowing The earth Has its Wind and fire contacts Its own power To quake Your left...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Lithuanian History by Jill E. Anderson
She loves him. She loops barbed wire in the shape of a man larger than he is for him to inhabit. Finer wires shape careful patterns...
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