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the grand tour by Angelina Martin
the cankerous grackles in the parking lots swarming in synchronicity like a biblical plague they don’t scare easy no matter how mean you...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
Cat Gut by Holly Day
across the room from me, my guitar pulses bright colors, throbs dreams I can’t ignore. I think about sleep but the music’s too loud. my...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
Three Poems by Jenny Andrekedes
Hope to Thaw If I were frozen in the ground, I’d hope to thaw. I’m left with muddy footprints and sticky fingers- I’m a thief. I stole...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
Two Poems by Ayesha Asad
Prayer of the City yesterday I asked the sun what she was grateful for & she said the blue of the earth & the stars that dance around her...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Two Poems by Kenneth Pobo
DULCET TONES ON GETTING AHEAD SOMEDAY I’m in my pajamas at 3 in the afternoon. I haven’t showered. Maybe I did a few days ago. Dishes in...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Two Poems by Akin-Ademola Emmanuel
HOW TO LIE TO YOUR MOTHER If the words are too heavy to let into mom's ears Or perhaps if it would douse her smile with tears & clench...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Home by Kateri Ransom
My home is miles away from my home. The four walls I grew up in, that trapped in the heat, and played music when we cleaned, and danced...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Grass Stains by Angelica Whitehorne
Angelica Whitehorne is a recent college graduate who writes for the Development department of a refugee organization in New York. At...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
On distance by Rae Rozman
Did you know, I tell you over the phone, that sunflowers turn their faces to the sky they track the sun in its constant, lazy arc...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
BOTTLENECK by Leela Srinivasan
in this auction of the body where birds give way to flower the sinews of a language we’ve forgotten only to stare the old world in its...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 2 min
Annihilation by Jason Schembri
We met on the beach in the middle of summer. His hair was swept into cool blond waves, a Hollywood prelude to his pearl-white grin. I...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 3 min
The Tape by Alice Rose
I put the tape in the machine. The buttons and functions seem foreign. I push, poke, smack the side. Finally the screen roars on. Static...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
ADRENALINE FATIGUE by Robert Beveridge
How the heart skips like a teenager after school who’s saved all her cheese slices for the past two weeks in a perfect yellow vinyl pile...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Nov 29, 2020
- 3 min
3 Poems by Dani Marty
Sleeping with a ghost You came to me like a midnight thunderstorm. Sweet rain smelling radiant while chaos broke atmosphere. Your eyes...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Aug 1, 2020
- 3 min
Leavetaking by Maria Picone
I can’t just tell you goodbye and walk away, can I? It’s a foggy day with a lot of doubts about what it wants to be. I pick up grocery...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Two Poems by Kat Terban
Resiliency For Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, Zatōichi, and Daigorō There are people whose experiences in life have hammered at them over and over,...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
North Wind by Dorian J. Sinnott
We washed up on the shores of our own wonder, mysteries of endless deserts and river mouths, making love with the sea. Let me breathe in...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jul 2, 2020
- 3 min
See Me, Feel Me by Ty Halton
I’ve never been to a funeral before. I always thought there’d be a bunch of people wearing black and crying and sitting around with...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
MY VIEW FROM HERE by Juanita Rey
There are days when life is suspect. It’s a kind of abnormality, a deformity of blood and bone. We’re in this body, supposedly for...
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Neon Mariposa Magazine
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
The internet is a two-egded sword, Judith by Isaac O. Daramola
Dear Judith, 1 There's no better way to put this, but apparently, I'm scared I would lose my last interacting story viewer the moment I...
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