Poetry

Poetry

I Was Always Falling

I Was Always Falling by Stacie Marinelli I was always falling that year, tumbling into sunken living rooms, cascading clumsily ...

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Sanctum Sanctorum

by Yael Flusberg You take away my breath.I’m used to being five feet above ground, if you don’t count the layer between concret...

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Dear MS

by Anonymous A solid thick wood door Red chipped paint Peeling and blistering White cracks of light Where you seep in You are u...

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Still Standing

by T. Bullock Diagnosed five years ago; two recurrences. Who said this cancer would grow slow?A wake up call to be more aware,T...

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Compact

by Yael Flusberg Barely a life, it might take months to form curves large enough to detect with sonar or magnetic resonanceunti...

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Cancer

by Thu-Mai Hoang The first scary word came out from my oncologist Angel of deathWanted to take me away to a beautiful placeto j...

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Arts of War

by Nina Murray 2012, Washington, D.C., Arts of War IV On the bus, he is thinking of god.The seat is hard, it is of a piece with...

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Arts of Peace

by Nina Murray 2012, Washington, D.C., Arts of Peace V The hour he cannot never recall is the onein which he began to believe w...

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Beach

by Calista Ogburn i was 9 years old when i found out what cancer was. my mama explained it to me after my aunt got diagnosed wi...

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Soluble

by Yael Flusberg Doctor, you say the mercury has seeped into my brain like water through cracks in a prison wall. That most peo...

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