by Admin | Nov 11, 2021 | MT No. 8 Articles
FEATURED WRITER Laura Salvatore Summer in the city All June I watched the starlings bloody the roof with berries plucked from the nearby cherry tree. Lifting their beaks, smelling the metallic air, swallowing the gushing orbs whole. I think of sending...
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FEATURED WRITER Jonathan Memmert Forest tree falls (after Gary Snyder poem “Pine tree tops,” from his 1975 poetry book Turtle Island) Intermittent rain drops, random leaves rustle, turbulent storms seethe, erosive ground quakes, century tree uproots, age...
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FEATURED WRITER Turner Roth Southampton Red sashes, red hats upon them, marching back and forth in the barn. Dull saber leads on, my power thick in ripeness of Virginia moon, cotton bending to the final exit fought for, come what may. Didn’t see nor hear...
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FEATURED WRITER Jason Reuven Kropsky Captain of Sad Wandering: In Memory of Paul Celan (1920-1970) You dragged your foot along for so long. Bandaged your homeless wound. Wandered from place to place with sour cheese. Above your top lip, below your nose. Sniffed...
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FEATURED WRITER Hannah Grieco On the last day we took a drive, watched other kids play, their masks around their necks, laughing and spitting and sneezing all over their friends, and we watched their parents and nannies talking, watched them pull their masks...
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FEATURED WRITER Zia Wesley Longing I dream of touch, the warm palm of a man’s hand searching out the secrets of the curve of my hip, the silky skin of my inner thigh, fingertips reading the history of past pleasures and infinite hope. I dream of breath...