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Having a Baby at 43 by Debora Kuan

September 27, 2021

Good bones, good / home—how tired you are, / and yet how you serve.

Lady by Anthony Okpunor

September 27, 2021

Do you know how much wind bleeds before there is a tongue to call it rain?

Bible College Memory #3 by Lila Robinett

September 21, 2021

I found a bottle / of nail polish in the underbelly / of a bag from college.

A Man Belongs to Women by Gladwell Pamba

September 7, 2021

Even though she was out of the streets, she didn’t trust man nor nature to care for a child

Moon Landing by Erin Carlyle

September 7, 2021

When daddy went to the moon,

I sat quietly at home, moonless

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
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
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.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
Saturation by Claire Oleson
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.