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Kimberly Kearns

The Cry That Carries I hear the mournful call of the loon. The deep, lonely sigh echoes off the mountaintops. Tumbling across the surface of...

Karen Kao

And Before That I woke with a yellow film in my eyes as if someone had soft-boiled my eyeballs. I called my family doctor but...

Heather Jessen

Ricocheted Into Our Better Selves From the field a moose leads by example—crossing the road, returning, pacing, waitingfor her slick-born calf, all long-legged maybe.Cars pile...

Jen Karetnick

Too brief again, this August light For Austen Clyde Prescott, June 20, 2005-August 3, 2023 But the uncommon heat will not break.Rain sizzles the roof tiles...

Linda Dove

Scheherazade Finishes In 1,001 Arabian Nights, the storyteller fights for her life by dreaming up cliffhanger after cliffhanger. She is trying not to be loved. Each night,...

Laura Johnsrude 

Brown Barrette in My Hair Maybe I imagined it, that in-ground pool beside the red dirt ball field. The pool, painted Carolina blue with a...

Esther Ra

Laundry When she received her first laundry machine, a wonder of torqued water & whiplashed soap, she cried. I thought I was dreaming, she said. I mean, my...

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