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by Beth Gordon china cupboard mouse/attic mockingbird the changing light ignored/the nearest star swallowed/the furthest star impaled/ (confront the …
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FAYE FURR KNEW SHE WAS NOT AND NEVER WOULD BE WACK
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by Beth Gilstrap The girls of Faye’s youth remember it different, of course. Twiggy and Roxane and Gloria and …
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Fellow Traveler
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by Will Cordeiro I’m a sad shadow that’s strayed from whatever cast it. I sit on the dock. A …
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Her Kingdom Come
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by Kristen Zory King There was a funny turn to Mother’s mouth when she saw the ants each summer, …
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Portrait of a Young Man, 1919
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by Lane Fields John walked back from the dock, hands stuffed in his jacket, pistol & medal of the …
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Men Do Cry
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by Janet Jiahui Wu Father had a bypass surgery. The arteries to his heart were as congested as his …
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Wisps
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by Suchita Hariharan Remember: curling up next to your grandmother on humid summer nights eyes fixed on the whirring …
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Ghosting
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by Aimee Parkison Lately, I keep remembering when we were young and poor. Lately, I keep reminding myself it …
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Companion
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by Jennifer Ronsman It was 2:30 am in the summer of pandemic nightmares when I saw you from the …
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Sir Isaac Newton’s ROYGBIV
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by Sierra Nelson In the sluice and slurry of a rainbow, blurry colors red to violet don’t neatly divide. …
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