The Parliament
Literary Journal
Winter 2020 / Issue 2
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Poetry & Prose
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Eddie Brophy
Leave the Funerals for the Dead
imbibing these dire affirmations
Caitlin McKenna
Brittle Bones
Last week a guy did something to me
"This would make Monet happy."
Denise Berger
Retrospective
Emily Rose Miller
This Womanhood
It is plucking clumps of once-dried-now-sticky-again blood
Craig Finlay
Holy Colors /
John Singer Sargent Finds the Wind
To hang a deer from its back legs, to open its throat
Stephen Kingsnorth
What You See /
Perdita
I like gentle humility, scaled honesty for friendship paced
Will Neuenfeldt
COVID Rot
the scent of sweat
cakes on my crotch
Alyssa Cressotti
ignition
I think about the girl you fucked down south
N. Nagy
residues
I know it hurt you because I wanted it to hurt you
Ruth Niemiec
Tiger Snakes
He says its bloody hot. I nod.
Safiyat Naseem
The Same Blood
I cut my hand - to verify my blood
Brian Yapko
Lapis Lazuli
i cannot remember how to be happy
Rachel Stempel
Gag Gifts I Give Myself
I'm already dead from the neck down
Art & Photography
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Chachee Valentine
pain
Chachee Valentine
failed suicide
Michael Moreth
Chair
Connor Doyle
Let Go, You're Choking Us
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Artistically Inspired Contest
Artist's Winner
Tatia Veikkola
Her Pale Envelope
She was not my real grandmother though
Editor's Winner
Artist's Winner
Justin Byrne
Symphony of Flowers
She was going to only buy one flower
Liz Hart
Open to the Wind
My bare ass frozen to the patio
