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Kristin Idaszak

Self Portrait as Fragments of Ancient Greek Statuary ​I. Self Portrait as Head of Aphrodite The Acropolis Museum’s galleries burst with bodies missing arms and legs...

Linda Drach

When One Door Closes CLOSED DOORS My husband spent forty years crawling through the bellies of ships and lugging chainsaws up ladders and stacking boulders...

Anne Gudger

All the Blues I crossed the Atlantic to find my feet away from him. We’d been a couple since we were both 14. Coupled through...

Kathryn Petruccelli

Time: A Brief Manifesto My lover and I fight about time. We fight about how much time we spend and don’t spend together. We fight when...

Elise Wallace

Reforming One summer, I took a bath each day. I was not sure who I was, or how to be me. Some days I was...

Kathryn Petruccelli

At the Grave I'd have said the reason I went was to see if their names were spelled correctly on the stone. I approached, flinching...

Samantha Sorenson

While Attempting to Write about My Sister I think of how our dad enlisted us in yard work—nonoptional—and the weight of moving rocks from one...

Shannon Dale

What I Understand I dreamed of a man with a gun in a food store and how he brought me with him to a corner....

Lindsey Jones

The Cold is Called Winter As a child, I don’t remember once noting the ritual graying of the sky or greening of the earth. I...

Laila Gharzai

A Helping Hand It’s winter and my mom’s standing in the kitchen of my moldy flat in the outskirts of Greater London, chopping Romano...

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