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Two Goats by Jeremy Radin
For a lonely god I play my lonely song.
12 hrs ago • 
Karan Kapoor
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Love Like Goths by Major Jackson
When you are in love, your blood brightens the veins
Oct 1 • 
Karan Kapoor
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September 2025

I Go Among Trees by Wendell Berry
Then what I am afraid of comes.
Sep 30 • 
Karan Kapoor
47
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This Old War, Again by Nur Turkmani
Time is dead. I have no illusions.
Sep 29 • 
Karan Kapoor
41
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Oxygen, fire, by John Sibley Williams
There are open wounds & wounds that open
Sep 28 • 
Karan Kapoor
35
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Diagnosis by Nikita Deshpande
"I come from a long line of time travellers"
Sep 27 • 
Karan Kapoor
 and 
Nikita Deshpande
67
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You Foolish Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
What kind of mind is odder than his who mists a mirror and then complains that it’s not clear.
Sep 26 • 
Karan Kapoor
30
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Cows in the Parking Lot of the Emergency Dentist by Angela Janda
we laughed the laughter of two whose marriage is dying but not yet dead
Sep 25 • 
Karan Kapoor
65
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How to Live by Todd Dillard
Depravity begins with thinking of love as a radical act.
Sep 24 • 
Karan Kapoor
 and 
Todd Dillard
71
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O, Sadness Immaculate by Jay Hopler
Looking at them—; it's like bleeding. So I don't look at them.
Sep 23 • 
Karan Kapoor
51
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Cigar Box Banjo by Kim Addonizio
God plucked a rib and found a woman.
Sep 22 • 
Karan Kapoor
48
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The Only Poem by Leonard Cohen
when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching
Sep 21 • 
Karan Kapoor
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