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Poetry 100

Micheline Maylor: Your motto

May 31, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I told you once I love you, if anything changes, I’ll let you know. ____________________________________–         John Wayne I couldn’t stay faithful after New Year’s eve, all those aggressive philosophy majors and tequila’s shot. You and me like the stuffed bears in our son’s room, propped up in corners, staring, neglected, a bit dusty. What […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Micheline Maylor

Micheline Maylor: (N)Ever Thought

May 31, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I’ve been having home-wreck dreams of you. I’ve got an inside view from our big window. This is a metaphor, of course, not manufacture, yet. We stay shrouded in a cloud of disaster. Dust in the loader bucket, the ideal view ruins itself. This dream is all I could pull out of the dark. A […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Micheline Maylor

Kim Parko: Origin2.2

May 31, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

* I made a salve to spread over anger that seeped ______from me   I put the sun in wax and oil to tame it ______then went to ______the wells ______of my skin   ladled out the dust   ______I had ______become     * I made a mask ______with antlers branching up into the […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Kim Parko

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