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Cherries in the Snow by Katy Goforth
The old neighbor lady passed on a hot Monday morning. No one found her until the Mobile Meals breakfast and lunch stacked up against the...
Aug 21, 20223 min read
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While My Husband Writes Our Wills, I Prepare Supper by Frances Klein
Shrimp take their revenge in the shucking. Long after they have been hauled up, reeling in the creel, long after they have been beheaded...
Aug 17, 20221 min read
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Introductions by Lori Cramer
Caught off guard by the question, I blurt the first thing that comes to mind: that I believe the twelve-to-six curveball is by far the...
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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Two Prose Poems by Ann Kathryn Kelly
Struggle, in Orange Orange, the color of sunsets missed all summer as I retreated to a bedroom, shades drawn. Orange in my core simmers,...
Aug 10, 20222 min read
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The Test Track by Emily Hessney Lynch
It was a cool gray morning when I arrived at The Facility. They were expecting me–I’d booked The Experience yesterday. “Mr. Backus,...
Aug 7, 20224 min read
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Wittenborg Woods by John Tessitore
A step past the marker and I lose the path, sink in a mud slough, fern beds, skunk cabbage, the marish and mire I’m not meant to walk...
Aug 3, 20221 min read
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Too Many Perfect Teeth by Laila Amado
She spends her weeks in the cubicle, passing documents up and down the food chain. Men in suits roll past her like waves in the ocean,...
Jul 31, 20221 min read
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Lifting Up the Log #2: "Mapping beneath" by Rebecca Dempsey
How did you come up with the title? The title (and poem) was inspired by a satellite image of tunnels of the Nullarbor Plain in...
Jul 29, 20222 min read
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the heritage of snowfall between paw pads by Amanda Williams
source text: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-swiss-alps-hotel-frozen-in-time-11607614389 Amanda Williams is a neurodivergent American...
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Dinkelmehl 630 by Anna Nguyen
I used to bake quite often. So often that whenever we go to the grocery store, I make it a habit to add a bag of flour into the shopping...
Jul 24, 20222 min read
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Grey Gardens by miss macross
Oh, my mother [rolls hands] you know, [pauses to smoke] she used to tell me, “Darling, when the sea foam crests, the ocean waves are made...
Jul 20, 20221 min read
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Treachery by MJ Malleck
Aunt Betty and Uncle Eddy visit me in the maternity ward four days before Christmas. My mother is going home to the six kids she can’t...
Jul 17, 20224 min read
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; by Bex Hainsworth
A flower with a single petal, plucked: he loves me not. Sideways glance, pursing of lips, progeny of silence. The insides of a button....
Jul 13, 20221 min read
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Cakes by Stephanie Loleng
On my fifth birthday, Mom made a Winnie the Pooh cake with chocolate frosting. Thanksgiving, she made a Filipino Sans Rival cake with...
Jul 10, 20221 min read
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What do you call this world? by Laura Titzer
Laura resides in Seattle and is a writer and facilitator of possibilities. She’s previously been published in Recipes for a New Normal (a...
Jul 6, 20221 min read
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A Splitting Open by Alaina Scarano
It’s what new parents call the witching hour, what people without kids call happy hour. I am standing under nearly scalding water,...
Jul 3, 20224 min read
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Passerine by Rowan Waters
Walking now through the year I tried to fly, when I hung at the bottom of a chimney, how I landed on the wall above the piano, how I...
Jun 29, 20221 min read
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I've Forgotten the Word for Shelter Since You Left by Lindy Biller
In the morning, I reach out my feelers for you but there are only the folds of sheets and blankets, the softness of your pillow...
Jun 26, 20223 min read
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Lifting Up the Log #1: "Caterpillar" by Jean Velasco
How did you come up with the title? There's nothing obtuse about this title (I hope!). It's the image I saw and the image I've tried to...
Jun 24, 20222 min read
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If every snail shell had stained glass windows, I would go to church more by Max DeZarate
walking along abandoned shores collecting and inspecting old houses of snails whose design plays as reminder of ways that nothing is so...
Jun 22, 20221 min read
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