Category: miCRo
miCRo: “Sonnet As First Words”
An internally expansive sonnet about the interplay of language, family, and country.
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miCRo: “The News” by Laurie Blauner
From the very first line of “The News,” we’re plunged into an absurdist reality that we slowly come to realize is just reality as we know it.
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miCRo: “Lion” by Nandini Bhattacharya
A tight and powerful piece about a lion and its violent transgressions.
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miCRo: “The Eco-Audiologist, After Hearing” by Haley Bossé
A meditative eco-miCRo that asks us to slow down and witness the missing.
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miCRo: “The Violet Hour” by Radian Hong
This prose poem captures a modern relationship hollow from within, echoing T. S. Eliot.
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miCRo: “May the circle be broken” by Bob Hicok
A masterful poem that moves from harm to care
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miCRo: “Push-Pull” by Robert Warf
In Robert Warf’s “Push-Pull,” driving yields a kind of oppositional syntax.
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miCRo: “(FG+FD+FM+FB) = ” by M.E. Macuaga
Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe.
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miCRo: “Aspen” by Michael O’Ryan
Michael O’Ryan’s cinematographic poem is imbued with a sibyllic mood.
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miCRo: “Litany of Kill” by Letitia Jiju
Bless the fangblenny masquerading / as something of a lesser bite
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miCRo: “Before the Wedding” by Cassandra Whitaker
Cassandra Whitaker’s epithalamium is a breathless wreath of anticipation, retrospection and contemplation.
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miCRo: “Melody” by Jason R. Chun
And I was ready for it, the salt-laced soap stinging red at the corners of my vision, waterfall over my eyeballs, and Mel’s messages front and center, lurid but legible. I was ready to delete.
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