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Poetry

Dad, I remembered one of our walks today by Emma Reyes

October 25, 2022

that night made you change your mind about hating the people that lived there

October 25, 2022

where do you go when pink spring outgrows you?

October 24, 2022

I plot a map of stars using peeled white paint.

October 13, 2022

Watermelon mush lines our teeth and lips like a bloody lover.

October 11, 2022

…the past / now an anthem leaking out of car windows, / grief exquisite as a teenage tenor out of tune …

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
My wife and I arrive in Paris and check into our hotel on the edges of the 2nd and 9th Arrondissement.
Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
It wasn’t yet six o’clock when the mine supervisor of Shannon Hill called the Byrd household and woke Ruth out of a simmering sleep.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
Saturation by Claire Oleson
I am diving for my mother’s last working kidney.