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Volume 17

Samantha Sorenson

While Attempting to Write about My Sister I think of how our dad enlisted us in yard work—nonoptional—and the weight of moving rocks from one...

Catherine DeNunzio

At the Dairy Queen, 1972 It happened as we sat with melting conesin the shade of an aging oak, talking aboutthe boys we had been...

Gabriel Blackmann

Little Knife  After Keorapetse Kgositsile All childlike tenderness, and slender flesh worked to a toughness like stone. Muscles like rolling hills, scenes Schumann could find no solace in. We made...

Allen Means

harvest my father stops calling me honeybecause boys are not sweet they are gravel spilling out of open mouthson the playground and when i start looking more...

Shannon Dale

What I Understand I dreamed of a man with a gun in a food store and how he brought me with him to a corner....

Audrey Blanco

Living Alone in a Duplex In a dream I have your handwriting,I dream I cannot stop writing close. At night in bed I listen for my...

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...

Lindsey Jones

The Cold is Called Winter As a child, I don’t remember once noting the ritual graying of the sky or greening of the earth. I...

E Peregrine

Digitalis purpurea Somewhere I am not in motion but held by foxgloves and June grey granite peering over asphalt curves golden lines are lanes and bumblebees bloodspot blossoms and a summer not yet here but not yet there,...

Lauren Crawford

Day #78 The scouts are rowdy again as they parade to the pool. They skip in circles around me and make a game out of who can...

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