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“For Scale” by Daune O’Brien

Posted on July 29, 2022

My mother sayslife is goodshe is happydown sixmaybe seven —- no, eight poundssince catching upto her too-thin sisterwho is losing weight to chemofastand I want to say somethingbut I don’tstop […]

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“Lava” by Cameron Morse

Posted on May 13, 2022

From my hurt back the snow-lit predawn sky is pewter, or lava, according to my best guess color chart on Pinterest. “Pewter” works, but I like lava because it feels […]

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“Messages from Colorado” by Cameron Morse

Posted on November 29, 2021

Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of six collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. […]

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“Lookalike” by Cameron Morse

Posted on November 8, 2021

It’s funny how franticallya few leaves appear tobe waving at me when I liftmy eyes to the maplethat tried to kill me yesterdaydropping a hefty javelinjust a couple feet frommy […]

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“The Surgeon” by Cameron Morse

Posted on July 5, 2021

If I  check my Facebookfor likes I must want to be liked      but why no one who sends me wishes knows my birthday       * Would […]

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“Perfusion” by Cameron Morse

Posted on June 7, 2021

Perfuse mebrain scanner Push your fluidsthrough my blood vessels my tissues Let whatever in me that is at issue be scanned interior scar star-birth tumor           […]

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“It was Slow” by Kaileen Campbell

Posted on July 8, 2019

I sat and held             the world’s coldest hand.One whose skin had been taken by ice. The palm of a dried soul          […]

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“The Clairvoyant” by DS Maolalai

Posted on April 22, 2019

for a while there I was worried I had cancer. I even joined a gym though I don’t know why I thought it would help. didn’t quit smoking or drinking, […]

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“Skin” by Chestina Craig

Posted on January 15, 2018

SKIN is the bodies first line of defense. our metal shell wrap-around  sometimes,  your body can confuse fortress for prison, my mother is able to show me exactly where  the […]

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“The Confession of the Watcher at the Bell” by K.A. Liedel

Posted on September 25, 2017

The peace inside the giant glass bell is almost always short-lived. Soon the translucent, riblike curves will spark with electric-blue orbs, followed by clouds of glittering cosmic dust, followed again […]

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