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“Last Meal” by Jason Brightwell

Posted on December 3, 2022

Tomorrow is too late. I’ve been listeningto the ground lick its lips, laying plans to closeon your heart. To beat the earth, brown batter, to bake afuneral bread. Toleave me hungry. […]

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“Retribution” by Ash Evan Lippert

Posted on May 2, 2022

Ash Evan Lippert is a clay artist and emerging queer poet residing in the South Carolina upstate. Their poetry and fiction center on the exploration of liminal states of consciousness, […]

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“Turning Back, Going Forward” by E Martin Pederson

Posted on June 21, 2021

It seems like paradise, but it’s a mirage. No more concrete walkways through the wired treelings, by the serious cyclers, no kids with frisbee dogsNo more lawnmowers and leaf-blowers and […]

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“Through Other Eyes” by Marco Etheridge

Posted on February 12, 2021

You are perched on your accustomed bench at the appointed hour, your cigar and the possibilities of another day in hand. The late-morning sun is over your right shoulder, bearing […]

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“Gardens” by Andrew DeBella

Posted on December 21, 2020

I I plunged my shovel into bare ground One foot stomping its edge,  Tearing dirt like paper   with needle-like precision My garden was full; I was careful to ration in […]

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“Zoom In-Out-In and Cry” by Hibah Shakhez

Posted on November 6, 2020

Earth o’ mine green red brown and blue, They ask me which colour you are And laugh when I cannot answer. Could I lie you were one all through? But […]

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“Edges” By Kim Malinowski

Posted on May 18, 2020

There used to be an edge where the world ended, where ships would tumult down cataracts into nothingness. There are places still, buffers and hallows where the edges become light, […]

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“Reclamation” by Mallika Bhaumik

Posted on July 1, 2019

Someday we might meet,when time has melted in us,our lives look like dried river beds Would you then recognise my face? My face might appear unknown,remote like the rugged terrains […]

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“I guess I never told you about Texas” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

Posted on June 17, 2019

I guess I never told you about Texas, long and sweet in the evening, boiling jelly, about mom’s temperature, stuck in the oven: The best and worst part of the […]

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“Seasons of Earth” by Manisha Manhas

Posted on February 25, 2019

the dust storms whineagainst the windowas cherry dreamsslide inside.Searching a marigold,a child’s eyes bob tothe tunes of  morningas do butterflies rise fromchrysanthemum jars.And so does the coupsurging from a younggirl’s diary […]

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Mother Rips my Roots by Jasmine King

Posted on February 5, 2018

With Lines from “The Apple Trees at Olema” by Robert Hass Shakes me by the raw, white, backlit flaring of her lightning streaked hand. Fingers whip, burn my veiny branches […]

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