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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bronwen Tate

  • Bronwen Tate
  • December 12, 2019
A little bite dissolves. It’s a beginning, / bait.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Bettina Judd

  • Bettina Judd
  • December 5, 2019
dive— / your back a black sight.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jess Rizkallah

  • Jess Rizkallah
  • November 26, 2019
once, / stones in a pocket didn’t mean walking into the sea.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Dante Di Stefano

  • Dante Di Stefano
  • November 21, 2019
What’s a bright moment to a blind man?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chelsea Dingman

  • Chelsea Dingman
  • November 14, 2019
Hopelessness is a marriage of light / & dark.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Quenton Baker

  • Quenton Baker
  • November 7, 2019
i write the field open / while buried beneath it
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Natalie Wee

  • Natalie Wee
  • October 24, 2019
As if // it wasn’t enough that the body is a cage.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Michael Dhyne

  • Michael Dhyne
  • October 17, 2019
Mother, what was I before this?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Emilia Phillips

  • Emilia Phillips
  • October 10, 2019
A thumb makes a perfect / bruise, don’t you think?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Uma Menon

  • Uma Menon
  • October 3, 2019
instead you make aliens out of people // on your own world
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by H. Melt

  • H. Melt
  • September 26, 2019
forgive me and I’ll forgive you / for forcing me into a skirt
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marlin M. Jenkins

  • Marlin M. Jenkins
  • September 12, 2019
let the echo pulse until the sound can’t hold these crooked scared hands
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