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All articles filed in Poetry

Notes Toward the Restoration

By: Protean Magazine July 1, 2020November 14, 2020
Poetry

by Ian Maxton: And then it will be as if you have just awoken from a strange dream. // Snow falling across the dark refracts the globes of streetlamps into halos.

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Poetry

A Poem Turned Political

By: Protean Magazine June 16, 2020June 16, 2020
Poetry

by Kevin Latimer. i wrote this poem in the bath. i stood there for many hours. my legs are wet. before this i ran outside around a shrub. the body hazards are so tremendous. i have to do manual labor because i majored in poetry.

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Poetry

Little Plank

By: Protean Magazine May 28, 2020May 28, 2020
Poetry

by Stephen Ira. In this manicured room built by working class boyfriends, if I keep my clothes on…

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Poetry

Shift Drink 4/4

By: Protean Magazine April 29, 2020May 6, 2020
Poetry

by Jonathan Todd: When was the first time? / are you even born yet / tumbling through as an accident

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Poetry

Tea with Bojangles

By: Protean Magazine April 22, 2020April 22, 2020
Poetry

by upfromsumdirt: for fuck’s sake is why you come as did your /elders a century before breaking / bread over caviar and raspberries

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Poetry

The Death of the Greatest Generation

By: Protean Magazine March 31, 2020March 31, 2020
Poetry

by Matt Mitchell. i have always hated my great aunt’s paintings of the house / she & my grandfather grew up in. it is too late to live there, / because the city of grafton knocked it down a decade ago.

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Poetry

N30

By: Protean Magazine March 25, 2020
Poetry

by Samia Saliba. carrying their swaddled infant while they run / away from the white teargas clouds, peppery / in our pores, though the baby does not cry

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Poetry

Marsupial

By: Protean Magazine March 17, 2020March 20, 2020
Poetry

by Mark Steven: “My friends kids / can’t breathe without masks / but Amazon now sells this”

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Poetry

Who Lived Happily Before This War?

By: Protean Magazine February 25, 2020March 20, 2020
Poetry

by Jayy Dodd. And when they propagated kinder people’s tweets, we / retweeted / but not enough, we quote-tweeted them but not / enough.

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Poetry

RAPE GIRL (Excerpt II)

By: Protean Magazine February 6, 2020March 20, 2020
Poetry

by Jamie Hood. Let me try again / You know this story / We all do

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Poetry

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