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the love and support i& #39;ve seen (and received!) for this special ldr issue of @minerallitmag has been overwhelming in the best way. i love this community 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💙" title="Blue heart" aria-label="Emoji: Blue heart">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Sparkles" aria-label="Emoji: Sparkles"> between finals today, i& #39;ll be tweeting out each piece with my favorite line(s) after seeing y& #39;all& #39;s amazing liveblogs! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">
firstly, @ellenabasada kicked off the issue with imagistic, searing flair in her piece "a summer feeling:" https://www.minerallitmag.com/a-summer-feeling.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/a-summer-...
yellow daisy tongues kiss me before i leave / haunted forever / a summer feelinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌼" title="Blossom" aria-label="Emoji: Blossom">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Sparkles" aria-label="Emoji: Sparkles">
yellow daisy tongues kiss me before i leave / haunted forever / a summer feeling
next, @purnimabala crafts a delicate yet devastating tempest (with immaculate formatting, if i may say so) in her poem "born again (to die):" https://www.minerallitmag.com/born-again.html ">https://www.minerallitmag.com/born-agai...
a glimpse of peace / everything mighty turned weak / mountains broken down into menhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌄" title="Sunrise over mountains" aria-label="Emoji: Sunrise over mountains">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💔" title="Broken heart" aria-label="Emoji: Broken heart">
a glimpse of peace / everything mighty turned weak / mountains broken down into men
in her piece "coda," @ryannekap lays bare grief and parting in all their tangled complexity: https://www.minerallitmag.com/coda.html ">https://www.minerallitmag.com/coda.html...
my heart burning in the distance it won& #39;t kill me if i don& #39;t / hold it closehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖤" title="Black heart" aria-label="Emoji: Black heart">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">
my heart burning in the distance it won& #39;t kill me if i don& #39;t / hold it close
next is vivien song& #39;s poem "dream sequence," a tender retelling of a meeting that can only happen by night, in the recesses of sleep: https://www.minerallitmag.com/dream-sequence.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/dream-seq...
Only our bodies, stupid & soft, or the steeples hanging / from above. Songbirds flying west into a darkening comet.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💤" title="Sleeping symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Sleeping symbol">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌠" title="Shooting star" aria-label="Emoji: Shooting star">
Only our bodies, stupid & soft, or the steeples hanging / from above. Songbirds flying west into a darkening comet.
in the piece "non minoris aestimo me," @theSweetMaris offers a prescient, poignant glimpse into the psyche of we, the wanderers, who have found home at last: https://www.minerallitmag.com/non-minoris-aestimo-me.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/non-minor...
I have always been the oracle. / I don’t need to hold your palm, / read your love lines.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔮" title="Crystal ball" aria-label="Emoji: Crystal ball">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Purple heart" aria-label="Emoji: Purple heart">
I have always been the oracle. / I don’t need to hold your palm, / read your love lines.
next, @petalledheart spins tales as a spirit that beguiles and blights in equal measure in her poem "heaven to you:" https://www.minerallitmag.com/heaven-to-you.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/heaven-to...
it& #39;s easy spinning heaven / out of earth / how my mouth / makes ashes out of menhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💎" title="Gem stone" aria-label="Emoji: Gem stone">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💫" title="Dizzy symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Dizzy symbol">
it& #39;s easy spinning heaven / out of earth / how my mouth / makes ashes out of men
take an evening "ride" with @moonmoonmother across a world sighing itself to sleep and stardust: https://www.minerallitmag.com/ride.html ">https://www.minerallitmag.com/ride.html...
violet sky / you and I / you and I / yeah we ride / ‘til the sun doesn’t comehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌌" title="Milky Way" aria-label="Emoji: Milky Way">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌙" title="Crescent moon" aria-label="Emoji: Crescent moon">
violet sky / you and I / you and I / yeah we ride / ‘til the sun doesn’t come
in her piece "minimums," @mccaelaa muses on what once was, what could have been, and what (maybe) will be: https://www.minerallitmag.com/minimums.html ">https://www.minerallitmag.com/minimums....
honey/ is that true/ is infinity/ a minimum?https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥃" title="Tumbler glass" aria-label="Emoji: Tumbler glass">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦋" title="Butterfly" aria-label="Emoji: Butterfly">
honey/ is that true/ is infinity/ a minimum?
next, @mspicone juxtaposes the almost-divine with sharp, stinging reality in her poem "should be heaven:" https://www.minerallitmag.com/should-be-heaven.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/should-be...
Oh, my God, I feel it in the air / puncturing this false bliss: learning to ballroom dance outside:https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🕊️" title="Dove of peace" aria-label="Emoji: Dove of peace">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💃" title="Woman dancing" aria-label="Emoji: Woman dancing">
Oh, my God, I feel it in the air / puncturing this false bliss: learning to ballroom dance outside:
oh! who is this? i was fortunate enough to have two pieces in this issue, "neon dreamboat" and an accompanying erasure. self-promo is weird. read them if you want: https://www.minerallitmag.com/2-poems-by-isaura-ren.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/2-poems-b...
"neon pink on blueshot skin / saltsting bite of lime—"https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍹" title="Tropical drink" aria-label="Emoji: Tropical drink">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💕" title="Two hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Two hearts">
"neon pink on blueshot skin / saltsting bite of lime—"
in her poem "if this is all that& #39;s real," @rosenplant_z succumbs to the flame to be forged in its heat: https://www.minerallitmag.com/if-this-is-all-thats-real.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/if-this-i...
If / you want me, you have to burn. This / is the way of witches.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Sparkles" aria-label="Emoji: Sparkles">
If / you want me, you have to burn. This / is the way of witches.
next, @samcanliftacar blessed us with not one, not two, but THREE golden shovels of spiraling nostalgia, longing, and emotional devastation: https://www.minerallitmag.com/3-poems-by-samantha-fain.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/3-poems-b...
i can’t sing any more. a / girl like me is only a woman / when everyone else like / you removes their shoes.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👠" title="High-heeled shoe" aria-label="Emoji: High-heeled shoe">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚡️" title="High voltage sign" aria-label="Emoji: High voltage sign">
i can’t sing any more. a / girl like me is only a woman / when everyone else like / you removes their shoes.
in their piece "only worth living if somebody is loving you," @flameswallower ponders on past, present, and the promise of heavenly providence: https://www.minerallitmag.com/only-worth-living-if-somebody-is-loving-you.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/only-wort...
I won’t apologize for us, star-drunk / in parking lots, but I will say, / it could all have been better.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌟" title="Glowing star" aria-label="Emoji: Glowing star">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌃" title="Night with stars" aria-label="Emoji: Night with stars">
I won’t apologize for us, star-drunk / in parking lots, but I will say, / it could all have been better.
next, @bearsbeetspoet paints the fondest picture of young, sunkissed love in her poem "just a couple of kids:" https://www.minerallitmag.com/just-a-couple-of-kids.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/just-a-co...
We are golden, / we are heavenly, we light up / every dead street with our smiles / and our palpable lifehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚗" title="Automobile" aria-label="Emoji: Automobile">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☀️" title="Sun with rays" aria-label="Emoji: Sun with rays">
We are golden, / we are heavenly, we light up / every dead street with our smiles / and our palpable life
for her piece "a video of you, laughing," @MargoLaPierre melts our wintry frost into flowering spring: https://www.minerallitmag.com/a-video-of-you-laughing.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/a-video-o...
The earth / pushes up handfuls of fragile violet astras / while snow snarls the edges of the yard.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌸" title="Cherry blossom" aria-label="Emoji: Cherry blossom">
The earth / pushes up handfuls of fragile violet astras / while snow snarls the edges of the yard.
in "the front of this postcard is covered in flames," @delight_monger has traversed her pain and come out on the other side, triumphant and bright: https://www.minerallitmag.com/the-front-of-this-postcard-is-covered-in-flames.html">https://www.minerallitmag.com/the-front...
you said Angel, let it happen. / you said Angel, be still.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌕" title="Full moon symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Full moon symbol">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌊" title="Water wave" aria-label="Emoji: Water wave">
you said Angel, let it happen. / you said Angel, be still.
(i& #39;m a fool... i thought that was a sun emoji)
