@SomeWordsLit

a literary journal hosted on a message board & edited by @juscarts

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NEW SOME WORDS @gr8earlofhell makes their fourth appearance on the forum with "the divide," which is, as you would expect, a very very good poem somewords.boards.net/post/27…

nat raum | Some Words

dad says the universe smells like raspberry ketones but also that we’d all die if we actually smelled it, so we just have to guess based on the atomic makeup o

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sent enough rejections saying this lately that I might as well post it publicly: I kinda don’t like micro stuff right now. Just not really connecting with poems if they have a single digit number of lines. That could change & you can definitely send me micro still but, yeah,.,
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if you’re like “which poem should I send to Some Words” & one is much longer than the other one, your chance is better if you send the longer one
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NEW SOME WORDS a poem about Ron Goldman from the least controversial writer on this website, @jadedwriter_ somewords.boards.net/post/27…

Wilson Koewing | Some Words

Pierce Brosnan We crossed paths with Pierce Brosnan while snorkeling at Tunnels Beach on Kauai. I noticed him first, standing on the shore straight out of a movie scen

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realized I’m a week away from scheduling for the one year anniversary week of the journal
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drinking a Trader Joe’s Long Island ice tea & watching WNBA playoffs on my phone while reading submissions send me things that mesh with that vibe
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it’s apparently lit mag week? idk what that means. send me a poem or a short story or an essay.
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NEW SOME WORDS welcome @LMZzz back to the board today somewords.boards.net/post/27…

Lisa Marie Zapata | Some Words

Suited You presented the idea of going to prom together as a math equation two weeks before the main event. I’d already paid my ticket which was $30 more expensive th

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NEW SOME WORDS always love a good parenting poem -- here's Joseph M. Jablonski somewords.boards.net/thread/…

Joseph M. Jablonski | Some Words

Screentime for My Toddlers When I was a child, these Alien monoliths devoured me, Spit me back up, Consumed all my childhoods. So, permit me A little pa

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NEW SOME WORDS here’s a new poem from someone whose work really should be everywhere because it’s so good @babysbbreath somewords.boards.net/thread/…

Colby Meeks | Some Words

Visions in an Unkempt Bathroom after/for a past/future truth There are lots of things lost: a tree, a car, light as we barrel to winter, a city; there’

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NEW SOME WORDS start your week off with this exquisite poem from @bobblack1 somewords.boards.net/thread/…

Robert Black | Some Words

First Movement In the black waters of sleep* a failure of ease scampers through a darned defence mistaken for tenderness the disappearance of snow strides

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NEW SOME WORDS OH MY GOD I AM SO SORRY FOR POSTING THIS SO LATE IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG WEEK read this really really really great piece from @s_emilyanon somewords.boards.net/thread/…

Sai Avanti | Some Words

2002 September 13th A lemon is frying, sizzling on a damp pan doused in cheap oil and sherry drops. “A couple more! Just hold the ends tightly.” She’s mumbling again, not

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NEW SOME WORDS read Daniel O. Oni's Game Night right now, provided you're in the mood to be sad somewords.boards.net/thread/…

Daniel O. Oni | Some Words

Game Night On Thursday afternoon B. sent what was to be his last ever message to the group chat. “game still on tonite??” We all liked the message. Our last likes, our liv

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NEW SOME WORDS had some computer trouble so just now getting around to posting this very very good poem by Jacob Butlett somewords.boards.net/thread/…

Jacob Butlett | Some Words

Ensconced After my morning shower yesterday, I wiped condensation off the mirror, revealing my naked reflection, a jungle of hair on my paunch, stretch marks d

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NEW SOME WORDS here's a really great poem by Billie Sainwood somewords.boards.net/thread/…

Billie Sainwood | Some Words

Bullet, to the Deer Your teeth found a clutch of clover Your tongue a giving river Your black nose an interesting smell under the bark of something that fell

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NEW SOME WORDS start the week with @veanimator on Atlanta food somewords.boards.net/thread/…

V N Garmon | Some Words

There Is Always Something to Eat Here You can throw a rock out of your car window on the freeway and hit three wing joints. You can trawl any strip mall in a fifty-mil

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NEW GRIDIRON GRIND FEATURE sometimes a poem arrives in the inbox that makes me say "ugh I wish I'd written this!!!," & @Bryan_S_Harvey's "NICK CHUBB RETIRES" is one of those somewords.boards.net/post/26…

Bryan Harvey | Some Words

AND NOW, IT IS TIME TO BEGIN YOUR LESSONS The walls close in, and I am there. Feathers and ice and agility. Almost no one thinks about it,

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