The Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library
Dinosaur Pants
William Doreski
Put on these pants, run your hands
down your thighs. Like the scales?
Wearing dinosaur pants honors
the common pool of DNA
from which all poetics derive. Continue reading “Two Poems by William Doreski”
Consequences of Detachment
K. G. Newman
Dinos didn’t read,
and now they’re extinct.
Imagine yourself
as the Bachelor, stoned
the entire show.
The inability to speak,
text or even email Continue reading “K. G. Newman, Consequences of Detatchment”
Let Me Tell You a Story
Laurel Radzieski
It is all about six people
who fall in love,
all with each other
and at the same time. Continue reading “Laurel Radzieski”
Pyramid Paperweight
a thing poem for my younger self
Jacob Butlett
On the paperwork the paperweight’s
Your brain in a desert of fire.
Those times you find yourself in tears:
You’re not funny, you’re not smart, Continue reading “Jacob Butlett, Two Poems”
Prelude to a Butterfly
Raymond Cummings
Cracked open, this new day spills
quartz teeth, Cadbury yolks, light.
Jujubes, grapefruit for breakfast; Continue reading “Raymond Cummings, Two Poems”
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