Poetry
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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...
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“Adams Apple.” by John Malone
20 March 2020 on PoetryThis is the tie worn by JFK the day he was killed (I show you a tie). Jackie had it washed and placed in a museum – a symbol of the...
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“Berries-n-Crème” by Preeti Vangani
28 February 2020 on PoetryMouth open, I runmy mother’s last lipstickover my lips. I’d forfeitall my wordsfor a snippet of her voice.Her absence keeps swinging into my framelike a door with a broken latch,the mysterious spotin...
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“The Redistricting of Anticipation & Dread” by Duncan Campbell
14 February 2020 on PoetryOur inclination is to assume witnessfor the grand & inevitable. Many, for example, believe the worldwill end in their lifetimes.Imagine—languor of booted feet suspendedout the passenger window, laces dithering in the...
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“Habit” by Gail Martin
29 November 2019 on PoetryThat was the day I began to paint the rabbitwith a flat straw hat, a smaller rabbit on top of that, another hat, a caption that says, “When My Feelings Have Feelings.”...
