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Sakura Park
2023-12-06by Rachel Wetzsteon The park admits the wind, the petals lift and scatter like versions of myself I was on the verge of becoming; and ten years on and...
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Safe Sex
2023-12-06by Donald Hall If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words; if she has grown in...
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Sacred Heart
2023-12-06by Lee Briccetti Even as a girl I knew the heart was not a valentine; it was wet, like a leopard frog on a lily pad, had long tube roots anchoring it ...
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To the Trespasser
2023-12-06by David Barber A quiet akin to ruins another contracted hillside, another split-level fretting the gloaming with its naked beams. The workmen have al...
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Cycle of Sounds
2023-12-06by Susan Hahn Hickory, dickory, dock—— it began of course in the nursery. Mouth so safe——the tucked in repetitions that would ...
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cutting greens
2023-12-06by Lucille Clifton curling them around i hold their bodies in obscene embrace thinking of everything but kinship. collards and kale strain against eac...
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To the Reader: Twilight
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell Whenever I look out at the snowy mountains at this hour and speak directly into the ear of the sky, it's you I'm thinking of...
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To the Reader: Polaroids
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell Who are you, austere little cloud drawn to this page, this sky in the dream I'm having of meeting you here? There should be a wo...
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Cut Off the Ears of Winter
2023-12-06by Peter Covino Cut off the ears of winter they have overheard too much, where incinerators burn, where rubble-strewn streets are covered in dust from...
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To the Reader: If You Asked Me
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell I want you with me, and yet you are the end of my privacy. Do you see how these rooms have become public? How we glance to see if&md...