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Two Poems by Erika Seshadri

MURMURATION the firmament welcomes flight in dim light of fading day, when starlings return to roost staccato chirps give way to...

Carnival by Laura Grace Weldon

after Danusha Laméris The game dupes us all at first. We play hard, scars fading faster than their stories, time’s twirl only a number. I...

Along the Periphery by Hema Nataraju

You say you can’t bear to live with my parents anymore. I love them, but I choose you, so we move out of their warm basement and into an...

Coping by Sarah Roth

After Hanif Abdurraqib An endless room with endless windows / and the view outside is just better out of some windows than others / at...

A Baptism by Nathaniel Spain

Follow the irrigation ditch beyond the railway line and you come to a thicket of willow trees. Between them the hem of a chain-link fence...

Plant Food by D. W. Baker

I would be a plant in your garden and be happy for a short life, hearing nothing but your thoughtless song, watching you feel the sun...

Sextant by Debra Mihalic Staples

In 1905, Mina Benson Hubbard led a successful expedition across the Labrador wilderness, then published A Woman’s Way Through Unknown...

Keeper of Magic by Emily Holi

Oops! usually followed by a wink. A few times a month. How do you keep them all straight? Weekly, probably. Have you ever heard of...

Cold moon murmur by Annie Cowell

As the moon lifts her swollen self into the dulling sky, some ancient stirring pulls me to the wilderness, where, like an augur, I root...

Grief Poem by Bhavya Bhagtani

My mother knows a trick that turns grief to sugar and she hides it all in her ageing spine. Last winter, a sadness drenched my father-...

Cancer Diary, Geese by Jack B. Bedell

Why do the geese cross the road to the clinic? To get to the other side where the grass is taller and full of feed. They have no idea how...

Autumn Walk by Christina E. Petrides

The fallen leaves scatter like chickens. A squadron of ducks floats on the river, silently paddling upstream, hunting among the rocks and...

A Charming Coterie by Catherine O'Brien

Less make-believe and more, belief-making - is the sea’s love for me. Under a commotion of jealous stars, it rushes around me emptying...

How Should a Person Be by Emma Burger

Emma Burger is a writer, healthcare professional, and end-of-life doula. She splits her time between Ann Arbor, Michigan and New York...

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