"The universe cracked open
in Laurel Canyon,
flora and fauna
collided with long-haired folk singers,
lyrics memorialized
with gold records..."
When the Universe Cracked Open by @mftulin.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/when-...
#poetry #music in the Lit Up press #litpub & #poetrycommunity

"I try to control my shivering
it’s like sepsis has come back,
every day I try to live a-new..."
Like roses miss the dew by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/like-...
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#autumn #angst #family

"I try to control my shivering
it’s like sepsis has come back,
every day I try to live a-new..."
Like roses miss the dew by John E Marks https://medium.com/lit-up/like-roses-miss-the-dew-8da997005a8c
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#autumn #angst #family

"in the void between this flat screen
and my fog-addled brain
no words echo this start of day..."
Once upon a Summer in Deerfield by Richard Grahn medium.com/lit-up/once-...
#poetry #younglove #gratitude in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#read & #share a #poem today

"in the void between this flat screen
and my fog-addled brain
no words echo this start of day..."
Once upon a Summer in Deerfield by Richard Grahn https://medium.com/lit-up/once-upon-a-summer-in-deerfield-3e333c3ef587
#poetry #younglove #gratitude in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity […]

at sixteen
I saw my first giant condor wings
breach a still blue
rock rimmed valley
far from their expected home range...
A Work Calloused Biophile Spilling Treasured Memories by Mike Ketch🖌 medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#nature #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #poetrycommunity
#readpoetry

"...you can get away with more than you think
when everyone is busy building something
they’ve all convinced themselves is beautiful..."
My Last Senator by Cole Hardman https://medium.com/the-mad-river/my-last-senator-e30bb65f93c4
#poetry in The Mad River #LitPub & #PoetryCommunity
#read and […]

"...you can get away with more than you think
when everyone is busy building something
they’ve all convinced themselves is beautiful..."
My Last Senator by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry in The Mad River #LitPub & #PoetryCommunity
#read and #share a #poem today

"...you can get away with more than you think
when everyone is busy building something
they’ve all convinced themselves is beautiful..."
My Last Senator by Cole Hardman https://medium.com/the-mad-river/my-last-senator-e30bb65f93c4
#poetry in The Mad River #LitPub & #PoetryCommunity
#read and […]

"You can’t know the future. The voice came from outside his head, but no one else was talking..."
Paper Hands by Lay Low Magazine medium.com/lit-up/paper...
#fiction #crypto in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity

"You can’t know the future. The voice came from outside his head, but no one else was talking..."
Paper Hands by Lay Low Magazine https://medium.com/lit-up/paper-hands-802e9e05b252/
#fiction #crypto in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity

"My son, my brother and my friend
Are shades I follow in my dreams.
They offer me swift glancing gleams,
Of all that is, not all that seems..."
Those blue remembered hills by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/those... #poetry #loss and a side of #music in the Lit Up press #litpub & #poetrycommunity

"...Eleven pairs of eyes now face the floor. Stalks of grain, pushed down by wind. Does the bowing sun still shine?..."Life for Many Peoples by Arielle Blackburn medium.com/lit-up/life-... #poetry #prosepoetry #faith in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"...Eleven pairs of eyes now face the floor. Stalks of grain, pushed down by wind. Does the bowing sun still shine?..."Life for Many Peoples by Arielle Blackburn https://medium.com/lit-up/life-for-many-peoples-91d7085d269a #poetry #prosepoetry #faith in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"...you said, “Here’s for the sapper.”
but how could i know that’s a soldier
defusing landmines, while all the time
it was the maple sap we boiled into syrup
heart-tracks in the snow..."
Sapper by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#read #poetry in The Mad River #Litpub & #poetrycommunity

"Cedric Moon knows one thing for sure, and right now that’s enough. The world he is capable of recognizing has died..."
Night Fall, Moon Rise by @jackprestonking.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#halloween #magicalrealism #fiction in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
#quickread

"I was there when Achilles fell,
there before the horse —
before it all: the burning wall,
before Clytemnestra buried her blade..."
Painted by Harper Lewis medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #mythology in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"I was there when Achilles fell,
there before the horse —
before it all: the burning wall,
before Clytemnestra buried her blade..."
Painted by Harper Lewis https://medium.com/the-mad-river/painted-610ddc5ffc2f #poetry #mythology in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity

"Grief is a purr so quiet
I check for breath
And feel the quiet rumble
Soft, soft, slow
Time runs low..."
Let the End Be Kind & other #poems by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/let-t...
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity #death #loss #grief

"Grief is a purr so quiet
I check for breath
And feel the quiet rumble
Soft, soft, slow
Time runs low..."
Let the End Be Kind & other #poems by Crystal Jackson https://medium.com/lit-up/let-the-end-be-kind-5b1c57d0dc08
#poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity #death #loss #grief