Ancci reviewed Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi in Only Poems. Read the full piece here: onlypoems.com/blog/a-revie....

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The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic What has been fated cannot be avoided

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"My grandmother sweeping the sidewalk knows
that. She says there's no god, only an eye here and
there that sees clearly. The neighbors are too busy
watching TV to burn her as a witch."

Read more ⤵️ It's very short.

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Oxygen, fire, by John Sibley Williams There are open wounds & wounds that open

"one feeding the other. You can tell by how long it takes a bullet
to pass through a child’s chest the circumference

of our forgetting. There are open wounds & wounds that open"

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ONLY POEMS (@onlypoemsmag) We agreed that we would walk as far as the row of purple cabbages grew, then turn back. But the purple cabbages heard us saying this, took it as a challenge, and began erupting out of the di...

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purple cabbages

"began erupting
out of the dirt
spontaneously,
lengthening their row
into the far distance
until we couldn’t
see the ending…

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Hard day today #rattle #onlypoems

So I’ll share the #Abecedarian here. A little context:
This was my third attempt at the poem. I wrote this after a horrible day. I was pickpocketed (the money was for my brother’s treatment) and I had hoped my poem would be selected as a karmic compensation.

a cup of coffee on a saucer with yellow roses and the words good morning aj ALT: a cup of coffee on a saucer with yellow roses and the words good morning aj

Awake, My Heart

The sun ascends, a golden hue,
Whispering, “Today’s for you.”
The air is crisp, the world anew,
Dreams await, and hope renewed.
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