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Tag: children

“Pink Sneakers” by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

Posted on December 16, 2022

The woman passes every day with her pink sneakers and floral running pants and cute son in a navy uniform. The son talks a blue streak while the woman nods, […]

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“Blowing Out Candles” by Daniel Romo

Posted on November 25, 2022

For Devan Daniel Romo is the author of Bum Knees and Grieving Sunsets (FlowerSong Press 2023), Moonlighting as an Avalanche (Tebot Bach 2021), Apologies in Reverse (FutureCycle Press 2019), and […]

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“Heavy Boots on a Sunday Morning” by Lea Murray

Posted on October 7, 2022

The Mother sifts through the soil, searching. Using her fingers like a sieve, she tries to find the thin filament sprouts in the mulch and dirt. She picks them out […]

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“ghazal for aguas del sur” by Kate Shannon

Posted on January 29, 2021

once, mothers waited for their dead children in damp bodies untilno more noises crept from their wind-polyp’d throats, until a dozen moons passed, a skinned and rising tidethat never overtakes […]

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“So Dark, Up Above” by Emily Ruth Taylor

Posted on December 23, 2019

Sure, no one ever said that people were getting their powers from the rain. Tommy guessed it had something to do with all those big companies that owned the factories […]

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“Garfield Books” by Jeremy Szuder

Posted on September 16, 2019

I sit and I stare, trying to peerinto the back of my beautiful sons’ eyesbecause I am looking for somethingthat I soon begin to realize,I may not be quite ready […]

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