Category Archives: 2023
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Helen & Harold at the Kitchen Table with Lobsters
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by Shana Graham The whole house smells of piss and must and bleach. Bookshelves lined with Vonnegut, Updike, old …
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Aguadilla
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by Erica Vital-Lazare When you find me in the desert peel back the greening leaf the pulp sleeping in the …
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At the Lathe
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by Ivan Hobson When the steel bar is turningand the carbide insert is cuttingwhat I have asked it to …
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Trying to Write a Ghazal for Ben
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by K Dulai For Benedicto Figueroa In front of Sweet Priscilla where you make lattes and tend to the …
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Tulips
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by Ion Corcos Carpet on the steps, white-painted handrail,the way you left, the window light brighton your absence. Last …
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Show Me Your Inner Goya
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by Sheree La Puma That part of you that cannot hear me weep.You’ve forgotten so much, the taste of …
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The Short Form of Love (7)
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by Wendy Taylor Carlisle I relish the way my hand sweats into his and still he doesn’t let go. …
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so much for the written word
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by Charles Byrne wind pares the granite corners of blacknight midtown, carves my lungs, clips the ones and zeros …
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In Leaping
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by Mandira Pattnaik Sometimes, standing before the mirror, Leia would say she felt like a grasshopper. Say this to …
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How to Deadhead Hydrangea
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by Elizabeth Schmermund Prune only after the rich blooms have paraded under your window and then have turned paper-thin, …
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