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The Mad River

The Mad River is a literary journal of the strange, the faerie, the insane, the experimental and occasionally snarky. Poetry, writing, stories, and flash fiction brought by the river from the deepest part of the forest. Let water, words, and madness flow.

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Anthony David Vernon in The Mad River

Jun 17

DEAFENING SILENCES

Gripping silence bangs on my window As I hear silent birds echo
it is an omen…

Jeff Hayward in The Mad River

Jun 17

black and white scene of a man standing on steps beside waves crashing around him

You’re Safe in This Moment

Maybe you still carry around the scars. Maybe you envision some trouble in the future, like most of us do. But…

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Miss Insomniac in The Mad River

Jun 2

I give my sparkle to you

All of it.. Truly, Madly, Deeply

Piper Rasmussen in The Mad River

May 19

Muons

Cosmic rays from deep space
Hit the atoms of the upper atmosphere,
Muons rain in a cloudless sky

Losing energy as they pass through material…

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Cole Hardman in The Mad River

May 14

A Bloom of Long Plants

Parenthood is like a rhyme,

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Anthony David Vernon in The Mad River

May 4

Fertilizer

Fertilizer burns up in a daydream
Chemical smoke and deep sleep got me feeling hazy
Now I can’t tell where anything is lately
All that was…

Andrew Conklin in The Mad River

Apr 4

A point of view shot looking out through a window divided into four grids with a white curtain framing the left side, the view appears to be a brown hued forest.

Cruel Spring

a poem

What mad jaunts are now formulating
in cabbage heads and heads of straw? —
conspiracy at ten, a…

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Yanxi Li in The Mad River

Mar 17

A pine tree in a field of snow and a trail of footsteps in the snow.

Poetry

Little Poem

To Emily Dickinson

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deepnotcreed in The Mad River

Jan 22

Whissper

Dreams whisper on your lips, becoming the dreams I hold dear.

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Glen Armstrong in The Mad River

Feb 16