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The House of Zabka by Marcus Slease

Marcus Slease

House of Zabka

Mind the ice, says Didi. We shuffle across the parking lot. My stomach rumbles. Have to feed the monsters, says Didi. She reaches inside her yellow trench coat and pulls out a paper bag. She opens the … [Read more...]

Four dream poems by Nate Maxson

Nate Maxson

interdream / credit: d. enck

Excavation Before my lips turn blue from the altitude I’ll speak a preemptive testament Ahead of schedule: The eyes of the dead in the sky How they named the constellations It’s an … [Read more...]

Dream Images by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

amic 2 (detail)- carlyle baker

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Carlyle Baker’s Dream Journal

Carlyle Baker

drek 1 - carlyle baker

I am in a market scene, some city of the middle east, talking with the son of the local bomb-maker, he is poor, diseased with nothing to lose. And dark childhood memories, finger nails scratching … [Read more...]

Three Dream Poems by Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski

eleven / image: em

Scouting I. Wine bottles roll bow to stern, clank and jumble, a tide inside the vessel, forward and back— I weigh these words, almost as if a god spoke them against the volume of our … [Read more...]

Language – a poem by Jared Carnie

Jared Carnie

berthusen / credit: d. enck

Language Look. Someone has scattered these words across my dreams. Crunch. Crisp. Squirrel. Lust. Fur. Tender. Nocturnal. Peculiar. Salacious. Fiction. … [Read more...]

the cold passions by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

The cold passions 5 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

Someone knocks the door. Nobody but the postman knocks my door. The whispering like a nightmare telegraphs his distress. While I sleep, the voice on the coffin has been shipped to the endless … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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