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Ellen Sheffield

Field Notes for Two Voices Shepard Tone: an audio illusion of a tone thatcontinually ascends in pitch yet seems to get no higher. - The Center...

Diane LeBlanc

Damage Control Press 'Play' to hear the author read their piece. To remind ourselves we didn’t invent pain in our fifties, my sister and I talk...

Katharine Whitcomb

Animate Objects   Whose face changed. Whose shoulder worn a groove. Whose careful thought.   Whose cat a boy pharaoh on a blanket. Whose father in rehab wears torn pants. Whose mother...

Laney Nielson

Of Water and Want   There was a brook behind the house—I would’ve been ten years old. Beyondthat the woods with its floor of mossand pine...

Peter Grandbois

The Hour is Enough   If open window— Listen to holes Beneath the rainIf closed door— Enter the wound As one enters a dream Unseen            Invisible To yourselfThe who you are welling...

Casey Reiland

Upon Learning that David Jones Changed his Name, I Remember a Night in May   When he tells me life should be gulped whole,a sword swallower...

Yvonne Zipter

Listening to Johnny Hodges’ “Texas Blues” The notes nearly drip with humidity.It’s too hot, says Hodges’ alto sax, to do anything but let yourself be bathedby...

Amanda Marie Gaines

An Angel Tries Petty Theft Press 'Play' to hear the author read their piece. After the sky swallowed it’s tongue, monarchs came out of hiding. Black cats in...

Mary Alexandra Agner

Condolences   An urban bird of prey, talons on the telephone wire. The bush beneath it wailing with the b-side harmonies of house sparrows. They need...

Rochelle Shapiro

Wedding Album, 1967 Posed stiff as the bride and groomon the fourth tier of the iced-white cake,you, trussed in a cummerbund beneath your black tails,brown...

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