20Jul 2025 Tess Hunt

Ode to the 405 south

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Oh relentless cement. All the places I’ve went. Me in different cars with different folks. You are constant. You take me to work You take me to play Let’s be... Read More
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A commuter contemplates – road rage assuaged. – mh clay

10Apr 2024 Tess Hunt

Hinge

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We are the same like a river and rain and we flow and we flow and we flow. I've swum in you before, you see, so many lives ago. You've... Read More
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So, keep your channels open and your hinges well oiled. – mh clay

12Dec 2023 Tess Hunt

Requiem for Self Medicating

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i need i need i need i need i need to tell you something. there will always and forever be a hole. it is how the light gets in- you... Read More
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Not whole with this hole. – mh clay

2Mar 2023 Tess Hunt

Layhers

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Some strange hunger atop a less strange hunger. some strange grief atop a less strange anger. some strange hand atop a less strange hand. something shallow and cloying atop something... Read More
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Strange, but no stranger to be – more or less. – mh clay

10Dec 2021 Tess Hunt

Call her back y’all

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Rhymes soothe sharp fragments of a tattered past. A voice in the darkness. A question too raw yet to digest. The answer is love, the stomach pains persist. Vegan chili... Read More
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This recipe is right from the source. – mh clay

6Mar 2021 Tess Hunt

“i’m with the bandwidth”

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you said you didn't have the bandwidth. don't say that about my friend! there is someone in your doorway casting a shadow and i cannot see you anymore. stay away.... Read More
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No matter how you leave it, you need bandwidth to deal with it. – mh clay

5Jan 2021 Tess Hunt

drive

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The man in me is crying while the woman drives the car. She's always been the stronger one, and how we got this far. But then he rises up to... Read More
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Two minds, one minder. (We welcome Tess to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of her madness on her new page – check it out.) – mh clay

16Sep 2020 Tess Hunt

“Good night sweetheart”

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I used to wish that I had been named Lullaby so I could go to bed with every body, every night. I was so silly. I didn't even need that... Read More
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A sweet dream for sweet dreams. – mh clay

6Mar 2018 Tess Hunt

upward spiral

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There's beauty in the breakdown - maybe everybody says that. Seems like everybody knows that. i don’t know. But what we leave out constantly - or maybe no one knows... Read More
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Here it is; a logical explanation for all this crazy. – mh clay