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30/10/2025

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30/10/2025

"Time to yank the lever,
break the gears on this merry-go-round,
besides,
all the painted ponies
have been amortized, corporatized, leveraged
until every bright color flaked off.

It won't be half-bad
if all the stars fall from the sky tonight
a glacial light show on a black velvet void
a coat of darkness for me to wear
in this raucous, feral world
my celebratory yawp
to blend
with chaotic consonants, yowls and flutings"

in the poem "WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP" by Harold Schaefer, in the latest Keeping the Flame Alive, Issue 11

30/10/2025

30/10/2025

Juliet Cook is excited and delighted to have another new poem, "Empty Holes for Eyes", accepted to appear in The Literary Underground in Conversation soon, around 11/20 or so!

Meanwhile, you can read some poetry they publish before then (or have published in the past) HERE 🖤 - https://theliteraryunderground.org/

You can even read some of Cook's own previous 2025 poetry publications at The Literary Underground HERE 🖤 - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/tag/juliet-cook/

AND she is also thrilled to be included as one of many live readers in their Underground Lit Fest, happening in a little more than a week! Find out more HERE 🖤 - https://theliteraryunderground.org/litfest/

29/10/2025

"The house is never clean
enough, and neither am I.
In a low whisper at recess,
my Catholic best friend
tells me she was forced
to kneel on rice at church
for having impure thoughts."

in the poem "a childhood memory" by Hannah Levy, in luna luna

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Desire He looked at me from across the room and I looked back. Impish, alive: black candy eyes following my every move. It was 113 degrees—Death Valley, 1994. I wanted to know what it felt like to be hunted. The rest stop smelled like ghosts and gasoline. In the van, my back legs stuck to the bac

27/10/2025

"Praise isn’t particularly useful, especially when unaccompanied by anything else. But I’ve learned an expensive gift is useless, too, if it says far less about her than it does about you. Maybe you didn’t give her exactly the present you want, but did you give her exactly the present you want her to want? I can’t even begin to advise the men hell-bent on giving women so-called “sexy lingerie”..."

in the poem "Cliff Notes for Romance" by Julie Marie Wade, in the latest issue of Action, Spectacle

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Julie Marie Wade Summer 2025 | Poetry Five Poems Cliff Notes for GhostingThe name-gods have surely gotten this one wrong. Consider how ghosting implies a ghost, and how a ghost implies a haunting. What do ghosts do after all but haunt? They hang around a certain place while giving signs of occupatio...

27/10/2025

"What was I thinking? Not much. But I was hearting everywhere, like a nightmare glitter-bomb bursting from a lovey-dovey card. (It pains me to admit, in retrospect, that perhaps all glitter-bombs are nightmares.) Turns out sweet nothings are in fact just nothings."

in the poem "Cliff Notes for Romance" by Julie Marie Wade, in the latest issue of Action, Spectacle

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Julie Marie Wade Summer 2025 | Poetry Five Poems Cliff Notes for GhostingThe name-gods have surely gotten this one wrong. Consider how ghosting implies a ghost, and how a ghost implies a haunting. What do ghosts do after all but haunt? They hang around a certain place while giving signs of occupatio...

27/10/2025

"Which is more practical than anyone first suspects. For instance, don’t make a fancy dinner and leave a catastrophic sink."

the beginning of the poem "Cliff Notes for Romance" by Julie Marie Wade, in the latest issue of Action, Spectacle

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Julie Marie Wade Summer 2025 | Poetry Five Poems Cliff Notes for GhostingThe name-gods have surely gotten this one wrong. Consider how ghosting implies a ghost, and how a ghost implies a haunting. What do ghosts do after all but haunt? They hang around a certain place while giving signs of occupatio...