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Nancy Huggett

When Everyone Is Sick and I Think of My Mother The sun rises on the old oak.The morning crows stopenroute from roost to landfill,tatters in...

Jill McCabe Johnson

Scientists Confirm Ocean Is Really Scary at Night Humpbacks can look like temporary islands, gray on grayin this weather, gliding along the waves. So sleekyou...

Ashley Kirkland

Abecedarian: Whatever Grows Aunt B. lives, after her death, in our wedding photos:bespectacled, cigarette hanging from her lips, beercup in one hand, phone in the...

Indu Parvathi

Ecological Observations on Growth Is birth only a rupturing of surfaces? Sprouts from abandoned coconuts,hoisting pinnate leaves, an abacusto measure my absence from home.The mango...

Anya Kirshbaum

Letter From the Edge of Every Known Thing Dear Ginkgo, are we so different? You at the edge of undress—I, undone, unkempt, infant at my...

Amy Poague

My friend Alfonso asked the lamps

Jacqueline Doyle

  Ode to My Cat, Ten Years Gone Like a boy named Sue, you were a girl named Bert, because our young son loved his uncle’s...

Marilyn Bousquin

Swinging in the Dark Wednesday, December 7, 2022 We talked by phone several times a week on my walks up Rivermont Avenue, but once you entered...

Sherre Vernon

3,000 Turns Against Death When Donne said Death, thou shalt die,he surrounded it with commas, breath through the barrier, the first wardagainst the unbearable. Second: this tongue...

Karen Offitzer

Oxygen Thief Years later, when I heard the details of my father’s death, I imagined a different ending: instead of trying to exit the truck...

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