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Caroliena Cabada

Prose poem in which I understand why my mother goes to church in the middle of the night: you can’t get that kind of quiet...
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Elizabeth Porter

Scarlet Tanager in the honeyed slant before sunset in the last hemlock grove, I stepped off trail and was lost— what soft human desire pressed me into these woods, what...
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Michael VanCalbergh

Nicknames Given to My Father’s Teeth Starting with Quadrant 1 Upper Right Third Molar Hill of dirty snow.Trap for roaming bread.Broken Wrench.Nosey Neighbor.The Swallowed.Package opener.1/8...
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Adam D. Weeks

Couch Well, you don’t want it and I can’t keep the thing. In May, I’m in my own studio and I’m afraid it will eat up all...
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Melissa Ostrom

This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as...
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James Miller

Nine Hundred Office Hours The student sat in the student chair, told me a long story about how there would be big changes in her family...
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Rais Tuluka

Mile Marker of the Self The nature of his drift was velvet and terminal; he was easy to miss, like a low star in daylight over Kansas. September,...
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Alison Amato

Take me home I. The Patapsco is calm,    steady  the way  one might be in a crisis. The skyline glints   and flickers, lighting up like the inside...
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MICHAEL CHANG

BAKE SALE ‘is it done?’ the mother texts the shoplifter who happens to be her daughter smelling of pot roast & filetto ai tre pepi w/ buzzards circling overhead u...
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Ella Shively

American Soldier Baby My high school friend has changedher profile picture. Newborn son, swaddled in husband’s Army jacket.Small toes protruding like mushrooms. Caption: baby Brennan, reportingfor duty!...
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