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The Rush Magazine
Discover New Voices in Literature
Shall I Compare Thee? (with apologies to Wm. Shakespeare)
Shall I compare thee to this land, enshrined,
And thus risk bleak and unintended blame
When nature’s lovely gifts, by gods designed,
Hide blemishes that bring the match to shame?
Ron Wetherington
Mar 201 min read
Villanelle to a Fickle Muse
She loves you with a burning flame
but spending passion quickly
she jilts you just the same.
David Blumenfeld
Mar 201 min read
THE WAKE OF WE
For what little it’s worth now,
we might as well be a boatful of grasses
beached on a highway: not the first time
we’d have met each other in the wrong
Stephanie JT Russell
Mar 204 min read
What the Wind Said - After Stanley Kunitz
The wind this morning romped
through the willow oak trees,
kicked their brown-sword leaves back
and forth across the grass...
Dianne Mason
Mar 201 min read
Weight of Envy
I would give a year to walk in your shoes
one week-- on Sunday I would flex my muscles
at the gym, walk naked proudly through
the others in the locker room...
Marc Darnell
Mar 201 min read
On The Street: Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
It is a common thing to see cattle or camels walking or sleeping in the middle of the street...
Roger Camp
Mar 201 min read
Ordinary Baku, by Yusif Zadeh
A completed Long-term artistic project examining the city of Baku
Yusif Zadeh
Mar 202 min read
Trashformation
Eighteen months. Time to watch a riverbank used as a landfill slowly trashform...
Donals Guadagni
Mar 201 min read
Photography
Poetry in Motion/Poesía en movimiento
By Ángel Ruby Vásquez Angel Ruby Vasquez is a writer, actor, filmmaker, and poet-storyteller dedicated to the craft of inspirational creative writing. His work spans film, radio, fashion media, and education. He has worked as a camera assistant, public radio announcer, media director, educational facilitator, and substitute teacher. Angel Ruby Vasquez es escritor, actor, cineasta y poeta-narrador, dedicado al arte de la escritura creativa inspiradora. Su trabajo abarca el c
Angel Ruby Vasquez
Feb 91 min read
Thrown to the Dogs in a Trader Joe's Parking Lot
The afternoon we met, she joked about being a narcissist. It was one of the qualities that attracted me to her—a woman unaccompanied by the threat of permanence.
Michael Propsom
Feb 92 min read
The Viewing
He’s smaller than I expected. They always are. The stillness shrinks them.
The room smells like lilies and furniture polish.
Lleyton Kane
Feb 92 min read
Micro Non-Fiction
Coming Out
I first learned that my father was the Messiah in 1989, just days before my 20th birthday. The two of us were in a coffee shop, not far from Tel Aviv University, where he was a professor of statistics and I, a second-year student of philosophy.
Gil Hochberg
Nov 9, 20254 min read
Micro Non-Fiction
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