a bird-riding grief
“a tabernacle, where memories (a) constellate, (b) dispel, tweeting for (a) healings, (b) witherings from their gods—”
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Deadlines: June & July 2024
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
The Word that Burns on the Tongue
By G.R. Kramer
“Have I not seen how its star fire / lavishes itself into every corner, peers / into the guiltiest chamber of our hearts?”
A Celebrity Couple Divorces On TV
“The couple looks on, a pair of eyes / melting like discarded chocolate, // furtive.”
Ortolan, Drowning
“Something low and feathery // would rise from his throat as / if he had choked on a bird and that bird”
The 613 Mitzvot and Other Safeguards Against Our Baser Instincts
“to redeem our tarnished souls, updating instantly, adapting in this age / of gratification with a rattle like the sages rolling in their / graves,”
Phylogeny
“Praise God for steam, its generosity / and blur, for the dark nest, / of hair pulped on the shower wall.”
The Killing
“It crosses / a creek hight with spring rain, dying leaves / pulled from
the bank– the dark set in / heavy as an eyelid.”