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Connections Magazine

College of Southern Maryland's literary magazine, Connections, published its first volume in 1986. Since then, the magazine has featured the highest quality poems, short stories, artwork and photography from Southern Maryland.

Below you will find sample readings from Connections magazine.

 

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Here, Bullet If a body is what you want, then here is bone and gristle and flesh. Here is the clavicle-snapped wish, the aorta’s opened valves, the leap thought makes at the synaptic gap. Here is the adrenaline rush you crave, that inexorable flight, that insane puncture into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish what you’ve started. Because here, Bullet, here is where I complete the word you bring hissing through the air, here is where I moan the barrel’s cold esophagus, triggering my tongue’s explosives for the rifling I have inside of me, each twist of the round spun deeper, because here, Bullet, here is where the world ends, every time. by Brian Turner