Hole In The Head Review
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Ed Valfre
Ed Valfre is a photographer / musician living in Los Angeles. He has published two children’s books, Backseat Buckaroo and Vacationers...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 4 min
Ellen Wright
The Other Side The news these days, full of celebrity suicides, puts me in mind of the view from my long-ago ninth floor window where a...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Mary Carroll-Hackett
She Sang to Him, I Imagine her pain ringing on a hot wild wind, grief-bent mother of this child, oldest human burial in Africa, a boy,...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Chris Bullard
Wile E. Coyote Checks his Mood As He Falls Toward the Desert Floor I am already thinking past the pain this rapid change of altitude has...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 1 min
C.W. Bigelow
Death of a Marine Your dreams were taking place in the Officer’s Club— dress khaki and gin martinis attended by all your men from...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 1 min
David Anthony Sam
Seaward When submerged in the sea, look both ways. Rip tides carry your endurance out into the time of your nothing. You have to outlast...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Tricia Knoll
Solitaire You don’t see well any more. You sometimes forget names of the four suits. You compiled your deck from loose ends at a thrift...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
David Lawton
Outside of Providence My heart is a regional train yard Sleepy, open to the elements and simmering Train yard where I saw my first...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Jeff Friedman
Bully He bullied his wife, walking through and never around her, slamming the screen doors—the metal netting torn at the corners. He...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Brad Rose
Never Can Tell Every day offers an opportunity to explore your personal style, so yesterday I painted open eyes on my sleep mask. You,...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Hilary Sideris
Booster We don’t know how we’ve watched two episodes of this cop show with subtitles more terrible than the actors, our mal di testa from...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Christine Penney
Hope Walks on Thin Ice I pick a dandelion its yellow life gone. Scrunch up my eyes take a deep breath, blow wisps of hope into the air. I...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Yvonne Amey
Bogie, Par, Bogie, Par, Sand Trap Sonnet If you are caught in a storm and are afraid of lightning hold up a 1 iron. Even God can’t hit a...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Katrinka Moore
Upon Waking Some spirited particles take wing won’t come back can’t no matter how we sing out cry Others try to make up the...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Jennifer Sheridan
58.Different What if you had been someone else? What if I had never met you Because you were someone else And I walked right by you My...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Matthew Flamm
Studies in the Dark Lately Wislawa Szymborksa has been meeting me in secret, after the streets have withdrawn and this room has been dark...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
E. D. Watson
Jeff You were my parents’ friend, you wanted to have sex with me, you told me so the day you found me in the library, alone. You...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Marc Frazier
A Month in the Country That’s what it means to be crazy./Those I loved best died from it—/the fool’s disease. – Anne Sexton I’ll tell...
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Hole In The Head Review
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Kevin McIlvoy
Descriptions of Heaven Got your note from the canyon— glad to know you’re there again. & why go so often now? Old as I am, I’ve never...
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