Volume Two, Number One. Dark Lady Poetry is an online literary magazine with a focus on poetry. With an eclectic taste, anything goes, and we encourage up and coming writers in their pursuit to be read. Good words are always appreciated. Our publication is dedicated to quality poetry, written by remarkable people. Alongside Ryberg, we have the lovely voices of Jennifer Givhan.

The Elephant in the Room. The Contemplative Musings of a Goldfish. Little Grace with Killer Doll. Former Dial Painter Testifies Before Illinois Industrial Commission, 1938. Case of the Exquisite Corpse. In Which the Love Lunatic Sits on the Edge. Of My Bed and Weeps. Jennet Device, Age 9, Afflickted by Wrothful Familiars after Giving Evidence in the Trialls of Her Mother, Her Brother, and Her Sister.

A person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, esp. Death By a Thousand Trumps. I hate passing that bookstore. Three blocks from my dorm, I turn and face him. What do you want? He takes a step back, hands in his jean pockets, head down. You have to go, I tell him.

From Oliver de la Paz. It will grow as the summer continues.

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