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Jad Josey

Sunlight on Rue Saint-Augustin The flat is full of sunlight, too full of sunfor a morning after French wine andcherry blossom footsteps atop streets dark with...

Sara Henning

Ars Poetica After an Abnormal Mammogram But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests.I’ll dig with...

Jen Rouse

On a Middle-Aged Birthday The worlds beginto thin now.So much that Iam not disturbedwhen I spill intoa life I leftlong ago. I buycheap coffeefor home,...

Kimberly Nunes

Love in an Airport The cancerous gland. Gone now. In the restroom at LAX, I take my tight purple panties off and hand them to my husband in the...

Rebecca Brock

To My Father Whose Pitch Has Always Been About Surviving Years and years you triedto teach me.Now, I call hometo remind you of fragility—as if...

Matthew Lippman

Everyone Listened to Prince For the longest time I tried to see joy in the robin’s egg or purple cloud at dawn.The sound of a...

Kandala Singh

Breathless (Delhi, April-May 2021) My city’s rivers have dried, our fish choked. Here, a funeral burning. The city gasps for air. No ventilators, sorry. Die outside hospitals, choking for breath....

Marisa Siegel

Pandas At night while my son sleeps fierce after another day spent learning how to be human at the end of his world I open...

Fran Westwood

Late summer after chemo Then, a July day& still now, you sitting huskedin the windless air. Hunched in the middleof our boat. I had never...

Caroline Maun

What I Didn’t Understand Was that everything that you don’t make proliferates. Foolhardy to expect the fern to stay put, not fill in every inch that’s not full sun....

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