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    • 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.
    • Roll for Love by Cidney Mayes
      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
    • 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.

Free Verse

The Weekly
In One Universe by K.D. Harryman
September 12, 2023
Your mother is still alive, leaving red lipstick on cloth napkins and collar points.
Poetry
Carla Moves about the Yard by Isa Pickett
March 14, 2023
The milk at the grocery store gets lonely when the clerk drives home A deer waits for his car
Poetry  / The Weekly
The Water, The Drought by Monica Fuglei
February 7, 2023
I carried it so much its weight was a small worry stone in my pocket.
Poetry  / The Weekly
Trestle / Trespass by Jennifer Saunders
December 27, 2022
Tell me about the time we followed the railroad tracks to the horizon
Poetry  / The Weekly
An ode to my heritage by Snigdha Garud
December 24, 2022
We always sit among the flowers, bougainvillea and mogra drenched with dreams.

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