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      Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
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      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
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      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
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      I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.

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      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Poetry


Accelerated History of Us by Gordon Taylor
March 8, 2022

You steady me, hand / on my back, as we float through / a slow-cooked summer.

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The War by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 1, 2022

The war did not take my head off. The war was never in the streets.

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Saturation by David B. Prather
August 15, 2021

The five-fingered claw of lightning reaches into the veins of town, hisses over the river, killing fish.

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Riot Party by Amanda Hartzell
August 15, 2021

The heatwave cooked a million shellfish alive in their beds

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Patron Saints of Blue Jays by Sarah Karowski
August 15, 2021

My love & I won’t stop dancing. we don’t concern ourselves with rhythm

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