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All articles filed in Poetry

Loom

By: Protean Magazine December 8, 2020
Poetry

by Stephanie Cawley. A machine weaves cloth / so a woman can write / a poem. The machine weaves / so one woman can write

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what words won’t put me in the ground

By: Protean Magazine November 13, 2020December 15, 2020
Poetry

by Isaac Pickell. if black were human / it would be already / if you were breathing / you would be all ready

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the apocalypse

By: Protean Magazine November 3, 2020December 15, 2020
Poetry

by Devyn Springer. the apocalypse was rhodesia was israel / was the united east india company / was new zealand and australia / was jim crow and jim jones

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Poetry

Have You Ever Halted the Parade for a Second?

By: Protean Magazine October 22, 2020December 15, 2020
Poetry

by Khalypso. no & i have only just considered stopping. / it doesn’t hurt enough. the pain has only just settled / into the grooves—maybe there’s spendable gold

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What Do You Regret? (Excerpt)

By: Protean Magazine October 8, 2020October 22, 2020
Poetry

by Stephanie Kaylor. The days I am tired after bed because my bed is my office and I recall its etymology, pertaining to moral duty, performance of a task; the days I think what it means to go to bed after that, how I dream myself

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Poetry

Mural of an Alligator in Aviation

By: Protean Magazine September 29, 2020October 22, 2020
Poetry

by Ernest Tjia. At the Charlotte Douglas Airport there is a mural / featuring an alligator flying, wearing a yellow / dress shirt that has been tailored-fit to

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Poetry

Paperboy

By: Protean Magazine September 17, 2020October 22, 2020
Poetry

by Benjamin Aleshire. I drug my canvas sack through snow, packed with words: They / are super-predators who must be brought to heel. Technically I was a / contractor, buying these words whole-sale

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Poetry

Floral Arrangement for the State of Independent Publishing

By: Protean Magazine September 10, 2020October 22, 2020
Poetry

by Mark Cugini. In the final days of the gilded age, the last remaining son of Cornelius Vanderbilt buried a horse’s heart in the forest and took a shit in the hole.

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Poetry

This Is a Note That Says ‘Do U Like Me Yes or No’

By: Protean Magazine September 1, 2020October 22, 2020
Poetry

by sung. Do u think my neighbor Michael who can’t tell whether I’m a man or a woman hates me because I don’t mow my lawn or because he can’t tell whether I’m a man or a woman

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Interrogation

By: Protean Magazine August 14, 2020October 22, 2020
Poetry

by Jason Crane. The other day at my job — / wearing my corporate uniform, / the one with the logo on the left breast —

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Poetry

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