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Bunny Embers

Jane Ormerod

Bunny Embers A melody ponytail, a middle-name smile, an old-fashioned jig with the neighbors. A wipe of the windscreen, sunscreen. Gimme the Carter, the Marlowe, the town protector, the well-breakfasted, the special ones ...
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Poem

No Blink

Christopher Romero

No Blink In patched Victorian Iron Fast, fibrous, connected tendrils She closed her eyelids reflecting the rays of inspection The surface appears, sparkles, flattened day time fireworks Sideways tall marsh grass and c...
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Poem

Rabo de Peixe

Thurston Moore

Rabo de Peixe What brings terror into your life nothing really It's a misunderstanding of nature A single plant of its own color, yellow ...
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Poem

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Charlotte Jackson

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Turned out the man at the bar was a neighborhood guy; grew up around here, back in the day. He and Tim got talking about the bad old days, before “Bed Stuy, Do or Die” was a motto on a...
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Poem

It’s Like This

D. James Smith

It's Like This Coming when I call my daughters two fortune tellers wet heads wrapped in towels sit down with their tumble of questions nearly fitting the puzzle I’ve made of myself yes they’re ready offering thei...
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Poem

Ted Nugent Says

Cassandra Dallett

Ted Nugent Says All hunts are pure trophy meat fun. Ted says every sacred part of precious animal meat, claws, skull, sinew, body fluids, blood, organs, teeth, skin, hair, tongue, eyeball are renewable. Ted say...
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Poem

Passion Sunday

Amy Barone

Passion Sunday Furtively, I watch him wipe blood from tracks on his arm before I leave for Palm Sunday Mass. He swore he didn’t — only pot, which he grows in a closet. Still. Leaving wasn’t going to be easy....
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Poem

trump defeats kanye

Eve Packer

trump defeats kanye reads the newspaper headline a cartoon kanye holds up on the cover of the sept 14th newyorker, and tho i am a huge b blitt fan, it makes me mad, no hint of 9/11 and why wld you gift the donald ...
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Poem

Walking With Difficulty Through the Snow

Anton Yakovlev

1 An old man walked his black dog past a courthouse on his way toward some memory indicator. A faint bouquet barely hidden under his coat, he watched the world with anniversary eyes. They passed a dry steering wheel...
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Photographs

Detroit Punk Photographs

Sue Rynski

My work is about rock and roll, specifically the rock and roll environment(s) I live in, the subculture. In 1977, just after art school, I fell into the art-and-punk Detroit scene with my friends Destroy All Monsters (the ro...
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Writing

Waiting for the Quake

Marc Olmsted

I. Oakland waiting for the quake American poverty's blanket dirty unwashed a shroud on the street abandoned by wandering drug thirst, while the sane sweep in front of their tents (a new day John will watch it for her ...
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Writing

The World Is A Beautiful Place

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The World Is A Beautiful Place - Lawrence Ferlinghetti The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don't mind a touch of hell now and then jus...
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Art

Just A Little Bit

Puma Perl

I had to shit on someone to make this money! shrieked Lani, I need you to get me off! Now! Lani had translucent skin and tiny, spidery veins. Usually, I could find a place to hit her but she’d done some serious damage o...
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The DEAD MAN

Julius Klein

(Bus routes, train routes, walking patterns and thinking jags) Riding the #22 Clark Street bus north on a fall evening in Chicago, 1978, getting off at the Armitage stop, descending the few stairs to the oval expanse of p...
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Poem

Foundations

steve dalachinsky

foundation 1 (morandi) who will preserve space / the fullness of emptiness – valid question? the flame of the shell / a warning of roses a kind of soupy meld within the intentional near unseen warp...
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Sensitive Skin Books

Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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The Last Poet of the Village

A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.
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There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.
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King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.
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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 13

The crime issue, w/ criminally insane artists and writers like Peter Blauner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Catherine Texier, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm, Stewart Home, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 12

April 2015 Poetry Special, featuring John S. Hall, Max Blagg, Emily XYZ, David Rattray, Jack Micheline, John Farris, Taylor Mead, Julie Torres, Winston Smith, Jean-Christian Bourcart, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 9

Fred Frith, Samuel R. Delaney, John Lurie, JD King, Vladimir Mayakovsky/Jenny Wade, Justine Frischmann, Chris Bava, Doug Rice, Marty Thau, more.
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
painting by David West
The Storm
Peter Blauner
He liked to have his house in order, which was why he’d never had a family or pets. He liked his routines and there was nothing wrong with that. Every day in the summer months, h...
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8 BC, East Village
The End of The World
Vincent Zangrillo
New York City—8/8/84—Day to Night Mark wanted to see how fast he could burn through the 10,000 dollar inheritance from Grandpa Dave, who sold schmatta to Hendrix on...
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Salvation photography by Ted Barron
The Opportunity of a Lifetime
Mike Hudson
The canyon was broken and hilly, with shallow arroyos cutting north to south and green agave plants and small stands of Joshua trees providing the only color there was against the ...
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Motor City is Not My Home
Emily XYZ
Motor city is not my home / but I love it just the same Murder city, kill city ok but that’s just one way to look at the place where so much comes from and I know GM should ha...
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Chavisa Woods, Seven Gifts, poem for Sensitive Skin Poetry Month 2017
Seven Gifts
Chavisa Woods
Seven Gifts (di Ego Godgifu, Latin: the self is the gift of god) di Ego Godgifu cut off these arms and take them down to the broke place of broken trees and give them back ...
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