Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category

October 31st, 2011

Fidelity Is Not an Insurance Company You Can Ignore

J. Bradley

 

 

I bottled cold shower water, drink a glass each time I think of you.

I melted a pair of brass knuckles, put the cooled slivers into capsules; this keeps your hands sheathed.

When you bring monogamy to a chop shop, you get my mono ag. You …

October 31st, 2011

5 Poems

MMR Fall Issue 2012

Lea Marshall

 

 

Here

 

This field blossoms

with stones.

Your name scratched

leaves quartz

dust on green grass.

 

If a rabbit came here

if a rabbit sprang away

 

your name torn loose

from my closed eye

from its waking

 

under root,

bone.

 

 

Genus: …

August 30th, 2011

Echolalia

MMR Cover Summer 2011

Leslee Rene Wright

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She had habit to call everything that flew bird: manta-rays swept through the reef when she leaned in for a starfish — not a fish, really, more an asterisk drawn in lopsided crayon; a fist, flush with a pulse. A ray interrupted her reach, its …

August 30th, 2011

Pork Salt

MMR Cover Summer 2011

Kay Cosgrove

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They still slice them open, that hasn’t changed, but now

instead of grass: cages             instead of sex, only the scent of sex to get the lady pigs ready for the plastic insert and     motherhood.

I learned this from Ira Glass via …

April 11th, 2011

Common

2. aliens aren't foreign by Ogun Afariogun

Nicholas YB Wong

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Think of no as a syllable. Think of yes as a denial. Think of logic and what logic rejects to labor. Think of hormones that surface as moustache, the act of shaving as dissolving discharge. A day, a becoming, a becoming however. Think of solitude as …

April 11th, 2011

This Is for Our Mistakes

2. aliens aren't foreign by Ogun Afariogun

Roheeni Saxena

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You and I made a pact with Poseidon on just another afternoon at the beach. You said that it wouldn’t matter what future we chose for ourselves, because though we didn’t know what we wanted, we wanted it at all costs. He splashed our feet as we …

January 29th, 2011

MMR 2011 Anthology | Coming Soon

MMR Antho 2011--Front Cover

 

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Stories, poetry and artwork by award-winning and emerging authors, poets, and artists. Moon Milk Review 2011 is a ravishing exhibition of what happens when the boundaries come off. A “refreshing departure…edgy…classic…compelling” (Flavorwire), MMR 2011 promises to take readers and art aficionados to places …

December 20th, 2010

WHEN WE DRINK OUR HEADS MAGRITTE GONE

by Lauren Hilger only our hats remain my face sky I am apple present …

December 20th, 2010

from “elsewhere”

Seeping Faces

by Scott Alexander Jones Thunderstruck / / as all things tracing their heritage back to water. / As if there were no finality / / beyond the privacy of their fevers. …

November 8th, 2010

Amaina

10 Essential Alchemy

by David Wolf the wild dogs of Santiago the sleeping dogs of Santiago the Andes disappearing into lavender haze …