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Insert Comma • A Portfolio of Leigh E. Rich
Categories: Fiction & Poetry, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Sunday

I want Bloody Mary brunches and poetry in bed and a legitimate shot at legitimacy I want to know pain but not too much and to skirt death but not too soon I want to cry not because the world is not fair but that there is fairness in every ant and plant and even […]

Categories: Fiction & Poetry, Science, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on I Am Bic

Would  I  were  a  king       or  a  crazy  beatnik       writing  poetry  or  prose  that  never                     rhymes       and  that  would  be  okay for  the  world  yearns  to  spin               but  never  […]

Categories: Feminism, Fiction & Poetry, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Cookies

Forget  33               17  is  prime                                                         knew  it  all                         […]

Categories: Fiction & Poetry, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Anywhere

I had to develop the knack to write                            anywhere with my neighbor’s bass       pulsing within my           walls           veins           head and at the coffee shop […]

Categories: Fiction & Poetry, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Caballero

                          I  wish  we  were  watching  the  sun  set  on  Tahoe                                     champagne  bubbles  tickling  my  nose “I  hate  carbonation,”  I  mumble  to  you     […]