Category: Published Issues
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The Lost Brigade
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Friendships
by Natasha Sajé Like dead moths, some dissolve to grey on my palms. New ones jump like crickets — I don’t know where they’ll land, and fear where
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Epithalamium with Acrobats
by Melissa Crowe Love, let us be clowns to one another our mouths drawn down, yes, but every frown and tear merely grease paint. Let’s see how
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Sit Still
by Michael Macklin Let the world do her work, sky juggling clouds, waves moving away and returning. Let flowers on the shore become doors or
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Mallow
by Michael Macklin They must talk, the flowers and the fishes. One overhanging the other, pale pink at the water’s edge. One world bleeds into
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Float
by Michael Macklin We swim out to the smaller world where weathered wood holds its place tugging at its mucky tether. Spread our dripping bodies
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Cafe L’Absinthe
by Philip A. Waterhouse The automatic voice intoning — You are now flying over the North Pole — you willing to be recrossing the polar bear
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Primary Encounters
by Philip A. Waterhouse West of the Mississippi, we were called gandy dancers, slang term for railroad “section hands” the north east, the same
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Still Life With Wind
by William Heyen The trainer found him hanging in the locker room early morning before the game. Statics was naked except for jock and socks,
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Special Olympics, Brockport, 1979
by William Heyen At the track, I served as hugger. My job — to congratulate the runners, finishers or not, winners or winners, even those who