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“The Pie Lady” by Lowell Jaeger
26 March 2021 on PoetryHer pie wagon steamed early mornings— far end of the fairgrounds —with smells of home-baked sweets. She chose me, of all the ride-jockeys, to drive with her for sacks of...
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“Do What You Will with My Mother’s Shalwar” by Maryam Ghafoor
12 March 2021 on PoetryFor every Khawaja I wear them without a kameez,not harem pants; these are the real thing.When I walk my mother’s neighborhood, all the white people stare, parttheir curtains, come out...
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“I TOO MOURN” BY JERRY T JOHNSON
19 February 2021 on Poetry—after Langston Hughes Liberty misunderstoodLiberty misrepresentedLiberty lied on, lied about wears a veil, dressesin sackcloth, spreads ashacross her forehead, ashesacross her landscapes torn Liberty weeps beneath darknessLiberty gazes upon terror...
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“Catch and Release” by Kyle D. Craig
05 February 2021 on PoetryWhen I was a boy my father lifted the barbed-wire fence beyond which lay a pond teeming with bass, bluegill, catfish. We pulled worms from catalpa trees,punctured their bodies on...
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“Violent Epidemic” by Sarah Degner Riveros
04 December 2020 on PoetryWhen the neighbor kidshows up on the porch, clutching a flannelpillow, dressed in sweatpants and a t-shirt, shakes his dreads, stutters, “Hi, Mom, is John here?” You set down the...
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“You Say You Have No Title?” by Barbara Daniels
13 November 2020 on PoetryHere, take some of mine:“Poem Ending with a Tulip” “Weed of the Week” “Potato Soup” I know you’re committed to “Untitled,” thinkingit gives you the ultimate freedom. But I want...
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Dear Julia
30 October 2020 on PoetryDo you remember roller-skating in the basement on snow days?We stumbled and soared, our feet heavy and strange, as snowflakestumbled down so fast outside the tiny window, like the Michigan...
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“Go for Gin” by Audrey Gradzewicz
09 October 2020 on Poetryfor Lauren B. /Lawrin B. At dusk, when regal moths kill themselves ignoblyon the bare yellow bulb of your porchlight, I name futures like racehorses. Alphabet Soupis the future in...
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“Days of Hand to Mouth” by Dennis Cummings
25 September 2020 on PoetryWe worked until dawn back then—Afros and longhairs on the loading dock,mocking the small paychecks that cameeach Friday at shift’s end, the last truck now hollowed out, the bass metal...
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“Ground Rules” by Tim DeJong
08 May 2020 on PoetryThe boy sits in a field.He is four or maybe three.Red-shirted, blue-shorted, he arranges his gathered trifles, loose sticks, wasp’s wing, snail’s shell,sifts fragments too minor to signify.The weedy grass around...
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“God as an Illinois hops farm” by Anna Girgenti
24 April 2020 on Poetryin early July, just before harvest, mud on the frilly white hemof my sundress. Barefoot. We squeeze the last drops of beer from the keg — my little brother barely...
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“Canyon Fire” by Patricia Caspers
03 April 2020 on PoetryAnother August morning the sky opensits smoke-heavy wings, and after so many years of silence, we hello each other in the cafe,as if not knowing the wooded placewhere we parked...
