They wouldn’t let me near you,
their ring around your bedside tight
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Category Archives: Poetry
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by AG Compaine
Bobbi’s petticoat on a hanger
on her doorknob
bodice smooth as silk. Nobody’s looking
I strip off my shirt and pants slip it on
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Jane Barnes
O children I forgot to have you
Didn’t want to be a bad parent
Like they who always said they’d
Bloom Creative Writing: “The End of the Season” by David Blumenfeld
“And I’ll greet them, marveling at their reawakening…” Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Fiction by Stuart Watson
A few feet away, a first-gen Lincoln Town Car had taken up residence at the curb. It wore vanity Idaho plates celebrating someone named JELLI. Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Donna Henderson
Once, I was your other heartbeat, your deepest
center. You were the world I was and knew.
After—all your life—I thought I was unlike
you: the you I liked, and otherwise.
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Maud Kelly
The baby holds her hands to her ears, and I worry she hears voices. Continue reading
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