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Volume 17

Steven O. Young Jr.

3 o'clock I want to tell you all about the lonesome figure dancing on the edge of my eye, but when I turn, I see you ’ve fallen off, too. Steven O. Young Jr....

Elinor Ann Walker

Cistern In every raindrop,a ghost. In every ghost,a throat, emptied. What drains:a body, tide by tide—appetite,then thirst. Air scissors throughto trickle. Her current runsthrough me, then salt in my mouth, ears.In every...

Cecille Marcato

Raveling and Unraveling Are the Same Thing Most mothers know, will tell you When you see a thread don’t pull;will show you: First tie a...

Kathryn Petruccelli

At the Grave I'd have said the reason I went was to see if their names were spelled correctly on the stone. I approached, flinching...

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...

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