Barren Magazine

Samuel J. Fox

Litany in Which Forgiveness is Granted to All Things Above and Below

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Always the twilight: a burning car crash. Always the car crash towed away by the moon. Always the stars gather and grind their way to some rhythm we think we…

Amee Nassrene Broumand

History & the Doomed

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Curb corners accumulate dandelions, cigarettes, & skeletons, compliments of the whirlwind as it keens through errant sunbeams. Antennae twitch at smashed gears. I nudge a broken spider with my toe,…

Rebecca Kokitus

The Beetle

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all broken and yellow as antique things tend to be there is beauty in oxidation, in the elements eating through metal like larvae through leaf the smell…

Hannah Larrabee

Corpus

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The mummified body of Ötzi, “the Iceman” from the Copper Age was found in the Italian Alps in 1991. So, you will not show me your hands again, how they…

Marisa Silva-Dunbar

Heat

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At thirty-three I transformed into the sorceress of eternal summer. It’s cliché to say a man broke the spell—that I couldn’t find the way out of winter myself, but he…

Alex Smith

No Better Past

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Sometimes, we find better selves like lost toys, as if we’ve dusted cobwebs to reveal old ribcaged hearts garbed in younger, rawer flesh that didn’t scar didn’t callous didn’t let…

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