Haikus on Watching Love Island and Not Your Mom's Birds and the Bees
A shaved-in side part // arrives with a new woman // who should not be there
The Rumen is a collaboration between writers and poets from a variety of demographics and backgrounds. Like the guts of an ungulate, we want The Rumen to be a space for ideas and experiences to digest, ferment, and transform.
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Lowcountry Blues and Judas Kiss
If I could feel sorrow // for a thing entire of itself, // it would be St. Helena Island.
The Next Note
Improvisations - little more than // preludes as inclined by other options // and expression as to what will happen
Wild Turkeys and Thirteen
By Jessie Brown
Mossed path through rhododendrons tall as trees // and here come the hens, burnished legs slow-stepping // eight, nine, ten copper bodies like Aladdin’s lamps
Cultural Resurrection: An Operator’s Manual
By Mingran Cao
Step one: Disable Lunar Rhythms using Greenwich Mean Timestamps
Power Electronics
By Zack Carson
The interior of electricity: // held stable in its grip, made pure at long // last. This is where man should surrender, // inside arc flash.
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