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#Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.

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Don’t tell me it’s a miracle— the woman’s mind is gone, a plate God’s licked clean. —Lexi Pelle rattle.com/baby-of-brain-…

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He walked slowly home, the key back in his pocket, adding more steps as clouds began to darken the afternoon. —Michael Dylan Welch Michael Dylan Welch rattle.com/step-quota-by-…

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Some evenings, when the clouds hang low and wide, I swear the boards breathe once. Then hush. Then hide. —A.Z. Foreman rattle.com/barn-at-the-un…

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daily commute … on the train platform butterfly’s mad calculus —Rich Youmans rattle.com/brain-teaser-b…

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In one of my lives I slide off the roof like a sheet of ice. In another I was already falling. —Eric Kocher rattle.com/dispatches-fro…

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We survivors speak to the dead because the living won’t listen to us. —Bunkong Tuon Bunkong Tuon rattle.com/what-the-war-h…

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At night, sounds come I can never identify. It’s often like that, our long days lacking much of anything that can be named. —Jack Ridl rattle.com/hardship-in-a-…

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The Waffle House sign glows neon yellow in my rearview. I can smell the greasy food. A thin crescent moon reaches for Venus, ice against ink. —Sherri Alms rattle.com/last-rodeo-by-…

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we are all simmering this summer with a thin metallic taste in our mouths … —Alison Luterman #thisweeklastyear rattle.com/mockingbirds-b…

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I stared at the picture on my phone in an Uber for a while after drinking a bunch, and then sat down and wrote this poem when I got home. I think it took me two minutes. I didn't even revise a single line. It all just came to me line by line as if prewritten somewhere in the

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i want to weigh as little as the tarp bag full of the bodies of cats i euthanize in the mornings at the shelter —Michael Battisto rattle.com/when-i-didnt-e…

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His face, a flag, fades and folds into what it once was— —Elaine Sexton rattle.com/anthem-by-elai…