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“Fever Dream” by Rebecca M Ross

Posted on May 30, 2022

Rona piles rice from path to porch like snowdrifts sprinkled with crayon colored carrots, peas, corn– until the guardrail disappears under an ever-growing mountain  of cooked rice. I steal furtive […]

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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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“Pandemic Yoga” by Judith Beth Cohen

Posted on March 25, 2022

At the Senior Center, we challenge stereotypes about old ladies. We practice yogaoutdoors for “social distance.” If it starts to drizzle, we ignore it. If it pours, we run for […]

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“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

Posted on December 31, 2021

The prison is like a Victorian asylum, and carefully arranged. The grounds are tastefully laid out, each tree with its own hillock of greeenery and rock, paths intersecting over the […]

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“Pennies for Pilgrims” by Julie Allyn Johnson

Posted on August 9, 2021

Julie Allyn Johnson, a sawyer’s daughter from the American Midwest, began writing poetry after her retirement from IT work in 2017. She loves hiking, gravel-travel photography, riding bikes, altered books […]

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“The Shape of the Laugh in Your Throat” by Edie Meade

Posted on May 14, 2021

From downstairs I hear you playfully yell “panties!” with the tantrum-bound toddler who is disemboweling my underwear drawer. By the shape of the laugh in your throat I can tell […]

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“now in the park july no–” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

Posted on January 8, 2021

now in the park july no– no parks are left. we survive inside the maelstrom of infinity, a glitch inside the program of identity late capitalism–no early capitalism– what is […]

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“Moving Among the Changes” by Tim Suermondt

Posted on September 4, 2020

The aspirations of man are simpler— a plate of fruit, a bottle of wine and my wife about to cook a chef’s dinner from disparate items found hiding out in […]

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“As We Know It” by Marco Etheridge

Posted on July 31, 2020

You pause in the center of the footbridge, a silver-bright ribbon running beneath you, gravel paths serpentine under the locust trees that define the banks of the creek. The sun […]

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