tents in the park by Dan Lenart

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tents in the park In the city without a soul When misfits and outcasts were kicked out, Banished to exile, even the ancients historically Understood this sentence, this...

A Different Path In The Same Woods by Moth Gorman

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it was a different year and i woke up in the same woods i was in before it was the quietest calm like i had cried...

Proofs by Dana Henry Martin

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Because tree stumps have replaced office chairs. Because a city of wind has replaced commercial business parks. Because infinity has been revealed as a tidy line of...

ptsd as a failure to punctuate by Timothy Hamilton

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a fresh blister peeled on an ant across the street stomping off in anger with no where to go looks to long familiar signs with names written the same to...

King of the Hill by Virgo Phoenix

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This gnawing burning squiggle of an emotion that streams through insipidness; speaks in the space where my gut meets the churning locket of despair. Alone,...

The Great Experiment by Barbara Summers

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"Dear Mum, Looks like the dizziness I was having and rainbow vision is something worse than "Silent Migraines", I may have to have an operation....

Propylene Glycol by JayJay Conrad

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. . .And again: how it feels to be afterthought, embodied scribble in the Margin, and again the void of logistics. It just is.

Wounded Healer by Samantha Irene

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I look into the dark pool I see colors spinning Inklings Of what has yet to become With one prick of my finger The ripples of change Cast outwards Water cannot...

Instead of a Label by Sharon Mogelberg Bull

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Instead of calling me "mentally ill" Call me beautiful Instead of mentally ill call me capable, meaningful and real Call me mentally ill if you must but call me responsible

Breaking News by JayJay Conrad

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Do you remember the first time you were told you were Broken, by a man with a clipboard and argyle tie?

The Impasse by Devin S. Turk

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Some say I am explaining the anti-psychiatry movement to my psychiatrist, but I can only tell you: On the kitchen stove a tea kettle is screaming and no one is...

Threshold by Julie Bradley

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At a threshold in consciousness an opening unknown, yet sensed as vaguely familiar and here now intense fear arising – cold chill, sweating palms, pounding heart— ego in...

Rub My Feet by Rod McDonald

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Your big toe gave you away. It wiggled and that meant foot rub please, Dad. Your eyes were closed, but I could feel the vibes all the way from...

Benzo Request by Rod McDonald

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My daughter asked: "Can I have a Clonazapam, dad?" "You bet." Why argue with a stage 4 sarcoma? It could take a week to become dependant. Why worry? Waiting for...
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See Your Ancestors Smile by J.H.

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As we lie together Worlds apart Seek shelter With me. Weave your Stolen freedom Into a new dream; Between skipped Heartbeats, Show me A world burning Only with Your fire. My sweet sublimity, Take hold of this Outstretched hand...

And You by Douglas Westberg

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And You a glosa And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into...

Shame by Destiny Woodward

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There is a vastness of sorrow and emptiness within me that I can’t describe. The sting of shame, the flames of regret consume me....

The Argives Unmedicated by David Penner

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And so Antilochus smote Echepolus, Thrusting a spear into his brain, the Trojan Gazing at the azure ether, then crashing Towards the dark; lunging at his foe,...

A Sweet Nothing for a Melancholic by Timothy Hamilton

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Forget, for today, for now, Life on the edge of this abyss, Look out across a gentle embrace Of great terrors and petty pleasures. Forget, for today, for...

poem by ElizaM

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Jonesing You can say it's for drugs and think what you want, but drugs are no substitute for love. Think what you will and say what...

How to Escape by Lincoln Barr

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Born with a pain I struggled to define I bore your secrets up and down my spine I pressed my tender back against the pew But there...

You Are A World by Tara Rae Behr

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You are a world. You are not a sign, a category, a personality, a label, a diagnosis, a spectacle, a thing to be analyzed, or figured out. Others who...

Vacant House by Tara Rae Behr

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I never knew what it was like—-to inhabit my body. I was always inhabiting others bodies in my body since the cave opened and my heart beheld the...

Mosquito Mind by Adele Leahy

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I question am I the only one? With an unkind mosquito mind. My mental health is a sham. As I abhor who I am. My pseudo happiness, pretending...

The Recidivist by Zak Mucha

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Owning just one monkey, if it weighs under 30 lbs., is not illegal in Houston where neighbors saw a little gray face peeking through the front room...