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Kathleen McGookey

Loons at Dawn, Gun Lake Would you call it singing, that deep, eerie wail the loons make, haunting the lake and the mist that keeps...

Melissa McEver Huckabay

Elegy for a Promise Ring After Iliana Rocha An opal is just another means of surrender. A circlet of diamonds like a crown of candles. A...

M. Ezra Zhang

Park Ekphrastic Without Park First day of fall finds me in mourning—something about 50 Fahrenheit I’m not ready for,might never be ready for the rest...

Ari Koontz

definition minus phrase a. the lake on the verge of a storm and the taste of “maybe” after years without speech, a gull soaring...

Stephanie Pritchard

Statistics “An estimated 23 million miscarriages occur every year worldwide, translating to 44 pregnancy losses each minute.” Quenby, Siobhan “Miscarriage matters: the epidemiological, physical, psychological, and...

Shannon K. Winston

The Newborn Barely 5 lbs 8 oz, she sleeps before me and snores through her half-open mouth. She clenches her tiny palms. Tight chest, fisted heart; tight tight— sweat trickles down her cotton onesie. She...

Carol Alexander

Anniversary with Busted Taillight There remain the Pleiades, dark filling stations deer crossing signs, waspish hum of planes departing Teterboro. She belongs to the permafrost when we...

Ina Cariño

The Moon Could Never Love Me I am tired of telling the moon of its beauty. it is waiting for the kind of praise that only someone...

Freesia McKee

During the Pandemic, I Lose My Spelling The first word I triedto spell and lost was Lisa.When I needed it, I couldn’tget the letters right...

Dorothy Chan

It’s Let’s Get Food Not I love you, that are the three best words in the English language, because I believe in the practicality of love. Romance...

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