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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Rae Winkelstein

  • Rae Winkelstein
  • September 24, 2020
it’s unclear if you love him or love to ache.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Michael Mlekoday

  • Michael Mlekoday
  • September 17, 2020
Where am I going? Is all this talk / of God and grandmothers / merely escape?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Anna Meister

  • Anna Meister
  • September 3, 2020
Wade with me through this gunk / because you have before.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Aline Dolinh

  • Aline Dolinh
  • August 20, 2020
I think I am the same sort of animal. I am trying so hard to be kind.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Joanna Fuhrman

  • Joanna Fuhrman
  • August 13, 2020
Outside, a tidal wave of strangers tried to remake the narrative.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jacqui Germain

  • Jacqui Germain
  • August 6, 2020
How dare the / fire want a thing and then eat it whole
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz

  • Jose Hernandez Diaz
  • July 30, 2020
The palm tree stood on the beach and laughed at the sea.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jasmine V. Bailey

  • Jasmine V. Bailey
  • July 23, 2020
It was good to wake up to your insomnia.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Delano Burrowes

  • Delano Burrowes
  • July 16, 2020
I wanted to give you one more chance to make me exist.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Threa Almontaser

  • Threa Almontaser
  • July 9, 2020
I’m dream-ghost, phantasmal, falling through floors from sighing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Austin Araujo

  • Austin Araujo
  • June 25, 2020
In my dream, I give you a car to cross / that lonely little kiss of a border.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Janan Alexandra

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  • June 18, 2020
when I can no longer call, / what else will have no name ?
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