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All my Theresas in one basket | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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All my Theresas in one basket. Two on prayer cards,. Saint of a snapped-back neck and a blessed open mouth. The folds of her dress peaked to stand up on their own. In points all over her body her thoughts. Must have been so dirty. Another missing her chain, hides under the card,. Gets polished and worn and in days she glows. Bright yellow under a glass lick of sweat. Her back side worn down enough by flesh. So this thing about a coming shower of roses can be kept. Though never saying it),.

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The Lonely | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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I am sparrow-filled tree waiting to be cut down. Air is packed with new horror. These birds leave, streaking from my arms in long brown ribbons, cutting the sky with their work. The sun burns cold and the grass refuses to grow. Children stand under my bareness holding hands in nothing but dirt. I will be chopped–. I want to hold her writhing pig-head, teeth slipping into my arm like a needle, and a man will come to place his lips on the tiny flower of my blood. April Michelle Bratten has had work appear ...

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You Tell Me Where We’re Headed | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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You Tell Me Where We’re Headed. We forget our names. We pay our own. Lost money back per cap,. In cherries, lemons,. I just need to blow $100 to feel. He prepares the sage. In abalone, smudging, his earrings. We are crabs in the bucket,. No crab lets another crab. Oneida stuck in sand, peacemakers. Begging grants and circling. All I want in the world is a jingle dress. And a baby with darker skin than mine. It’s dying so you lay claim,. Dragging its desperate, lovely catch. If I turn them down.

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Everyone Loves a Beautiful Ironing Board | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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Everyone Loves a Beautiful Ironing Board. That night we decided to get real. Sloppy. My thumb brushing the thick. Nipple of your left breast, fat. And cylindrical and nothing like. We went up to the roof. To get humbled, all limbs. And fooling around, aimless. Javelins careening, adulthood. As many years away as we. Could imagine it. If the lines. Are the result of grief or. Early promise, those who’ve been. Loving hard for a while and were. Famous already own the taste. Of their gin. In one photo,.

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What Made Her Foreign | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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What Made Her Foreign. What made Madame foreign was not her way of replacing our homegrown. Teacher with stories of Paris escaping the blue neck scarf she wore like a. Tourniquet. Or that we measured the minutes of French class in the distance her. Bra strap traveled from shoulder to elbow beneath her white silk blouse. None of. That mattered. What made her foreign was lipstick. She wore it daily in a town. Whose women reserved it for church and high school reunions. My mother was.

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from The Dictionary of Spools | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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From The Dictionary of Spools. Wooden spindle made at the factory in town. 2. Noise maker; especially, one of an almost-matched pair struck repeatedly to establish a hollow rhythm to the tune of a table saw. 3. Kaleidoscope filled with crystal beads and safety pins, aimed at a window to blur the edges of small objects held to the sky. 4. Then telescope without glass to reduce the sky to a blue coin. 5. Now candlestick kitsch. 6.

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Relational Aesthetics | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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Aaron apps is currently a phd student in english literature at brown university. his manuscript dear herculine won the 2014 sawtooth poetry prize and is forthcoming from ahsahta press. his other collections include compos(t) mentis (blazevox, 2012) and intersex: a memoir (tarpaulin sky, 2015). his writing has appeared in numerous journals, including pleiades, lit, washington square review, puerto del sol, los angeles review, and carolina quarterly.

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My sister in the unbeating heart | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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My sister in the unbeating heart. Jennifer E. Brown is a writer from San Francisco. Her work appears in Lungfull! The Indiana Review, Fourteen Hills, The New Orleans Review, Digital Americana, and other American literary journals. Presently she has been nominated by Short, Fast and Deadly for the 2016 Pushcart Prize. She holds a master’s degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and works at Mills College in Oakland, California.

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Behind the Editor’s Desk: Reading Fees, Literary Citizenship and Doing it for the Love of Poetry – An Interview with Editor and Publisher, Molly Sutton Kiefer – Women Who Submit

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Empowering women writers to submit their work for publication. Submit . . . to Us! What We Had Did (Gallery). Behind the Editor’s Desk: Reading Fees, Literary Citizenship and Doing it for the Love of Poetry An Interview with Editor and Publisher, Molly Sutton Kiefer. July 16, 2015. July 16, 2015. Is an essayist and poet with numerous publications including the lyric essay,. And two chapbooks. She edited for. With her friend, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins. In a submission call I picked up through the yahoo!

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Luna | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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Moon-maker, moon-lover, I am the ocean, salty, what licks. I am cave, I am what vacillates. I stockpile the space between the water and the sky. I am so dangerous. Callista Buchen is the author of the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, October 2015) and Double-Mouthed (winter 2016, dancing girl press). Her work appears in Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, and many other journals, and she is the winner of the Langston Hughes Award and DIAGRAM's essay contest.