January 2012
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December 2011
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"Love is" in i79 of Short Fast & Deadly
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November 2011
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"Black Holes for Beginners" on the Serotonin... →
Brand-new poem. These ones are few and far between, so check it out now!
New Poem by Michelle Denise Jackson. Act Like You... →
borderlinepoetry:
Hera’s Vows to Zeus, On Their Wedding Day
On the day when my breath becomes an ailing furnace and my skeleton is the ramshackle remnant of this massacre we call living, I hope you will still see me as I am today, a girl on a mountaintop in a white dress jumping from an…
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borderlinepoetry:
The Prayers of Bullets After Annelyse Gelman Forgive us our velocity, the way we can only love inside out— our piety has always been clumsy. But we still remember creation— The day you tore us from the sky, and we marveled at the thunder you had placed in our throats. This…
September 2011
4 posts
playingtheboard asked: Hi. I am the original writer! =) Just finished it today! You can absolutely publish it! I would be more than thrilled! =)))) Thanks so much!
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Armed with every precious failure: The Sound of... →
can someone point me in the direction of the original writer? i would love to publish this.
playingtheboard:
Sometimes it is a bang. A thunder clap inside the heart—an earthquake. An idea so strong it spasms, ripples through the body like the body is a blue-moon rock-kissed lake. It might be a shotgun blast. A buckshot boom goose-bumping its way outwards, towards feet and…
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August 2011
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– (via heyheyisley)
love.
Borderline: CONTEST ALERT! →
borderlinepoetry:
Borderline has big news!
In honor of our upcoming 1-Year Anniversary in September, we are putting out a special ”Best of Borderline” issue- our first-ever PRINT edition, featuring the most prolific voices to grace our magazine this year, as indicated by readers, editors, and contributing poets,…
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July 2011
36 posts
MEGAN FALLEY [ON ICE!]: IF YOU REALLY LOVE A... →
meganfalley:
“How vain it is to sit down to write
when you have not stood up to live”
- Henry David Thoreau.
Everyone wants to give a writer the perfect notebook. Over the years I’ve acquired stacks: One is leather, a rope of Rapunzel’s hair braids its spine. Another, tree-friendly,…
givesmehope:
I was on the bus, and a 5yr.
Old girl was cutting out hearts and I asked why.
She said, “I’m cutting out hearts to give to all the boys so they can break these hearts instead of mine.
” then she handed me a heart and said, “here, I don’t want you heart broken.
” her LGMH.
“Ink makes us beautiful.”
– Calliope Nerve’s motto & my new favorite mantra
“Talk to strangers
when the family fails and friends lead you astray
when...”
– Saul Williams
“Truth has a way of keeping its secrets public.”
– Arielle John
“Children of the night: only some will star the sky and only believers in death...”
– Saul Williams, “Tao of Now”
“i am my own silver lining, working myself into gold.
i am twenty-two years old...”
– Mindy Nettifee (from “Before I Knew the Price”)
NEW POEM: "If You Want It To Be Easy" Calliope... →
If You Want It To Be Easy
Don’t shuttershock light back into quarks. Don’t have staring contests with the man on the moon reducing him to a high-school nerd of an asteroid fumbling all over undiscovered space and sky until he crashes into adolescent galaxies with all the debonair of a prepubescent black hole. Don’t challenge the stars to cross their eyes when they don’t have any. The next time...
Even the Astronauts
sydmalicious:
…are calling NASA’s shuttle program “a magnificent failure.” So maybe what we’ve learned from this is how to die too gracefully. How to stare at the sky and see Sputnik, see ourselves, see ourselves on fire like stars and understand: despite the way we glow, at this kind of distance, there’s a decent probability we have already burned out.
“No matter how careful you are,there’s going to be the sense you missed...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“You are a souvenir shop where he goes to remember how much people miss him when...”
– Sierra DeMulder, “On Watching Someone You Love Love Somebody Else”
first new poem in a while.
Note to Self after Jon Sands You haven’t earned the right to break. Get yourself together. Note to the man who broke me: get the fuck out of my poems. Note to my poems as of late: you smell too much like sunrise to be a rude awakening. Note to awakenings: you look better on Virginia Woolf. Note to Virginia Woolf: scientists have officially proven the existence of death by heartbreak. ...
Poets You Need To Know: Rich Boucher →
borderlinepoetry:
Thirteen Ways Charlie Sheen Looks at a Blackbird I Among twenty snowy mountains, the fastest thing moving was the eye of the blackbird when it saw me flying past it. Boom. II I was of three minds. But I’m always of three minds. Blackbirds couldn’t handle any of my minds.
Poets You Need to Know: Rebecca Parson →
borderlinepoetry:
Thirty Years Later I watched her pass so long ago, it doesn’t seem real, but I can still see it. It was like watching a woman undress or look in the mirror. She looked straight at me, knowing I did it, then something changed. Left. But her face stayed the same. As a kid, I looked…
Poets You Need To Know: Drea Kato →
borderlinepoetry:
Deathjoke And then she collapsed like a star. And then he collapsed like twelve stars. And then she was reborn as a mermaid. And then he transformed into gases and rose into the atmosphere and reached out toward black oblivion as if it were his wife and he was seeing her for the last…
Poets You Need To Know: Curtis Davis →
borderlinepoetry:
War Addresses the Hippies Push them daisies in my mouth, I want to taste your smoke lined peace on my tongue. Make my taste buds dance in circles around my uvula, guitars and ukuleles in hand. Your long hair, glassy eyes, and songs of movement give me butterflies, but it’s getting harder…
Poets You Need To Know: Curtis X. Meyer →
borderlinepoetry:
The Ghost of William Shakespeare Appears Onstage at The Source Awards to Discuss The Tragic Misuse of His Creation, The Word Swagger Never hast I cared for stages used for less than grand performance. But oh, had I only known buffoons would occupy podiums so as to celebrate themselves… …
Poets You Need To Know:Donna Vorreyer →
borderlinepoetry:
Friar Laurence’s Last Confession No one else saw the shiver of her ribcage beneath Romeo’s arm, the fog of her breath as it clouded the flat bottom of the chalice. Her skin was still warm, bright blood staining her bodice in the shape of a cross. A sign. He carried her to his cell,…
Poets You Need to Know: Mark Skrzypczak →
borderlinepoetry:
“An Open Letter to Courtney Love From Frances Bean Cobain” Dear Mom, I wanted to start off this letter by calling you a bitch But you have been called one so many times That you might take it as a term of endearment My psychiatrist says that attempting to write to you Is one of the…
Poets You Need To Know: Zoelle Egner →
borderlinepoetry:
A Brief History of Tin Soldiers When the motel door opened, and it was not Patrick who entered, I knew he had finally done it. We were arranged on the window sill, facing the closed curtain. I hoped they would overlook us-they would never understand- but the crime investigators were…
Piddlepro: “If you don't create change, change... →
June 2011
3 posts
“Whenever I don’t get picked, I say to myself ‘pretend you’re a tulip’.”
– Andrea Gibson (via toskateonsun)