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Poetry


The World I Can’t Remember is Now by Lauren Camp
September 18, 2022

Look how we adjust to such up and leaving. Though I remember porcelain, soil, less flesh, I have to reach backward to do so.

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Hoofprints by Lisa Raatikainen
September 18, 2022

Between the drifts whitetail outline a broken geometry— a pattern like the glyphs that guide a woman’s scissors

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I Was Not a Tender Lover by Michelle Hulan
September 18, 2022

He said I’d die ten times and still rise a woman made of bees swarming chrysanthemums, dragging dust between worlds.

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Wild Birds Unlimited by Nick Martino
September 18, 2022

—the hush of birdseed rivering the plastic chamber grows a dark applause

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Carrie White Wonders What Difference it Would Have Made by Danielle Shorr
September 18, 2022

"If she had prayed harder, in a different language, to someone / or something else, if the cross had been a star / or the star had been a planet."

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