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Lori Barrett

Driving Without a Map Our warm bodies glow in the dashboard lights. My youngest, their boyfriend, and I follow the white lane lines and the...

Stefanie Kirby

With Wind The curtain breathes when I give birth to death, its push from open windows: out. They mark my door with a leaf to say, There is no breath inside this...

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Deadheading You argue the blooms still alive when we both see brittle ghosts hovering over twisted roots, translucent petals pink as the time wine stained our lips, bed an excuse to day dream...

Brad Snyder

Rituals Whenever the Yankees play the Twins I think of the child we never had. I regret the connection. It feels cheap for a baseball...

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...

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...

Jenna Baillargeon

Cicada Summer Like cicadas, I just want to cry and cry too: through the whole month of June, I unleashed gnarls of heartache from my throat until the...

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...

Sarah Beth Childers

Candy Crane My brother Joshua lost interest in Walmart's toy crane at eight, shortly after he gained enough hand-eye coordination to manipulate the metal claw....

Steph Liberatore

Haunted Your husband doesn’t come home right away after he’s dropped your daughter off at school. Normally, he’s back in 10 minutes, in time for...

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