24Jul 2023 Nikita Teixeira

Another Perennial Fixation

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I would compare you to an Adonis rose, except my therapist says I shouldn’t make comparisons, and I want her to put a rose on your nose, God knows, but... Read More
editors note:

By any other name, give rise. (We welcome Nikita to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of his madness on his new page – check it out.) – mh clay

19Feb 2022 Nikita Teixeira

REDEMPTION GAMES

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after Roy Rogers & Dale Evans on TMS she said she was too old to go out to the video arcade, but he took her anyway, for himself, but also... Read More
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Yippee Kai Yay! Gimme quarters! – mh clay

3Nov 2021 Nikita Teixeira

​Out to Pasture

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a crooked villanelle after Roy Clark on The Muppet Show Brighter and brighter, red barn on rock burned. Dog raised hell hawing at the weather vane. What happened? Like Dad. Daughters... Read More
editors note:

A treatise on the farming crisis. – mh clay