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Pete Mackey

The Grief The grief unexpected comes long after the dying,long after I did not recognize the breaking as my ownin the time around me, moving...

Phyllis Klein

Hardware It might seem to you that your machines are just as importantas your defeated heart, taking its beating too seriouslyor not seriously enough. Those...

Sara Ryan

My Father Asks If I Was Raised By A Jackal he laughs but he knows what he did. he molded my blood. I became part wolf...

Kelsey Frank

In the Produce Section Citrus cathedrals, stacked against stacks of themselves and in between the lemons and the grapefruits someone’s grandmother works her hands into some understanding...

Grace Gilbert

threnody for what’s left of you February again & i want the sound grief makes when it’s listening. i want to make new colors of it.  February again &...

McKayla Conahan

1943 We do not go to the ghetto, where the children’s drying clothes hang on the barbed wire like examples, but burrow, instead, between the roots of...

Andrew Dugan

Milk Thistle Outside Grandma’s Apartment, Windsor Condominiums, Early 1990s You said they were alien brains / and I believed you. My child imagination took over. /...

Allie Marini

Vanished true crime shows in syndication transmute the natural world into a                  threatening beast—worse than any clawed...

Sarah R. Stockton

Protection Rite for Most of the Girls My first instinct is to tell you not to love. Fold your curiosities in first-aid gauze,and all magnificent,...

Carolyn Williams-Noren

My Daughter and Her Best Friend Made Blue Jay Masks at Camp I asked my dad when I was her age, Do grownups have best friends? He...

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