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Volume 16

Brian Benson

Love Story Six summers ago, on a sun-bleached dock in Beaufort, South Carolina, my friend Galen gave me the best hug of my entire life....

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...

Kristian O’Hare

And it’s only June Dusk, in Clarkdale, Arizona, an old copper mining town now hip with art galleries and wineries. At our Airbnb, we lie naked, on top...

Emily Patterson

After Two Years, the Midwife Explains pre{eclampsia—a condition comparable to milk fever in cows and dogs} which explains how my blood soared in the days after as drops of milk rivered how...

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...

Susan L. Leary

Entertainer of the Year Before the lilac trees were cut down, there were mornings the purplish stems wrapped in tin foil could bring a person happiness. Schoolchildren made the...

Kuhu Joshi

Romanticism I pretend my mother is not sick but resting. If you guys are feeling anxious just pray, she texts on the family WhatsApp and sends us a...

Allison Griffith

A Messenger Between In the summer of 2022, we moved to South Bend, Indiana. It was once my college town, though I never paid much...

Jen Karetnick

Galaxies An American sentence acrostic golden shovel, after the Indigo Girls Grooving around our small town on the last night before college, we wondered, Whatabout the...

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