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Where Are We Going by Maggie Fulmer
I’m sitting in a truck bed full of cherries. It’s August and we’re on Main Street and I don’t like cherries. In the dream I’m not having,...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Apr 4, 20231 min read
Don't Write Poetry by Everett Cruz
Don’t Write Poetry about bees. Though they keep you company in the garden as you tend to your flowers. And don’t write about flowers ....
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Bulb Culture Collective
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Breakfast After a Night Spent Together by Jonny Bolduc
You reach for a fry pan in the same cabinet your poltergeist father hides his stash of `secret` booze, a graveyard of bottles buried...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Mar 21, 20231 min read
Inkling by Stephen Jackson
Where the window screen was split, repaired — sewn barely back together with grey cotton thread, a dandelion seed attempts its way in,...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Mar 17, 20231 min read
sour cherry by nat raum
i split infinitives because you told me it’s okay that’s latin’s problem not ours thirty-five days i’ve ripened soft flesh gives way...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Mar 10, 20232 min read
On Forgiving The Man Who Altered My Blood by Joshua Merchant
who was i but a glass of water unable to exist without a pair of lips, a box of grits dredging my mattress? in my mind i was singled...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Feb 21, 20232 min read
Ligeia, under dimmed lights by Mirjana M.
Cracked like the skyline at 18:11 countless men mine me for coal; I suck the midday Moon like a good symbiot, like a pretty harlot of...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Feb 3, 20233 min read
Cosmic Micros 2019 by Neil Clark
Bellyache Earth got swallowed by a planet-eating space whale. In the belly, it spun and disco-balled with the other planets, like new...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jan 24, 20231 min read
Stealing Kisses by Shiksha Dheda
Originally published by Hecate Shiksha Dheda is a South African of Indian descent. She uses writing to express her OCD and depression...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jan 17, 20232 min read
What if we were just two horses in a river by Sam Moe
And we didn’t need coral-coded kitchenware, and we weren’t good at cooking. Maybe I’m not talking about horses, maybe I’m talking about...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jan 10, 20231 min read
On the Train Through Switzerland by Richard Fox
a girl with raven black hair handed me a perfect orange. The orange crossed the aisle as easily as the conversion of metric distance to...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 23, 20221 min read
Sepulcher by Kristin Garth
I’m bones beneath your buried breaths. Our vault of ink bequeaths a dozen deaths. You cut me in our currency. A shank, assault...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 16, 20221 min read
My Erin by Thomas Dunne
Devils deign, Faeries feign Lamdegs bang And the Angels sang Banshees scream, Wee wanes dream Far over the hill Madness beamed Eternal...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 13, 20221 min read
Oiled by Mona Mehas
In the morning, I left my lodge to look for food Not finding any, I ventured further The water became thick; my feet grew heavy I...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 9, 20222 min read
Fifteen by Robin Kinzer
The front door yawns open, a cavernous mouth that spits us into the street. Midnight’s pulse throbs at my back. My parents lie fast...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 2, 20221 min read
Hailflake by Hibah Shabkhez
In Quasimodo's jostling stone-cobbled street From the gulls' wings upon the river's soft thrum Through the colombes around the clochard's...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Nov 29, 20221 min read
Paramecium by Wren Donovan
I do have boundaries. I am enclosed, but porous. Permeable and edged with moving lashes like some alien eye. Ectoplasm, endoplasm,...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Nov 25, 20221 min read
Washing Windows by Allen Helmstetter
It was a yellow-leaved day with a crystalline sky and brisk breeze when we washed the upstairs windows— my mother and I—she in the...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Nov 22, 20221 min read
Change by Yuu Ikeda
Raindrops in August unlocks the door to September. A blessing from the purple sky makes a lot of puddles that reflect a variety of...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Nov 18, 20222 min read
Crudely Crafted Characters by Matt McGuirk
Misshapen forms scrawled across the Trex decking in late afternoon: a green outlined jack-o-lantern wishing it was ripe with a mouth...
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