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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...
Poetry

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...
Poetry

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,...
Poetry

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...
Poetry

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...
Poetry

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!...
Poetry

Cal Freeman

A Rotary Phone It’s strange to buy machinerythat will last longer than you live, discomfiting. Your mother has a chairlift that takes her fromthe living room to...
Poetry

Joshua Zeitler

 Origin Story with Phantom Limb   after K. Iver The woman in me begins in recurring. Dreams. I am a young girl. Running in an open field. From a...
Poetry

Michael Akuchie

Meditations on Leaving On the eve of my departure, I remember hauling my belongings across three states to be here. I recall squinting at the...
Poetry

Sierra Hixon

Hair-Dye Pastoral “I got a sickness, sweet as a love-note” -Steve Albini These vines slimify ripe skin—come, brush through spindle- thick veins                  of hair that sweep your flushed forehead. Mine: rusted...
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