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    • 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.
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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.
    • 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.

    • Caught by Chris Bullard
      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Lyric Poetry

Poetry  / The Weekly
Moon Goddess on Missing Gravity by Debora Kuan
March 8, 2022
Poetry  / The Weekly
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.
Poetry  / The Weekly
Having a Baby at 43 by Debora Kuan
September 27, 2021
Good bones, good / home—how tired you are, / and yet how you serve.
Poetry
The Seam Ripper Holds with Those Who Favor Fire by Cady Favazzo
April 15, 2021
the seam ripper is routinely disappointed / to be identified as part of a kit.
Poetry
Emily as I Prepare The Meal-Kit Pork Carnitas Bowl by Darren C. Demaree
September 6, 2020
There is an owl / that visits the / that visits the dying / tree that fell

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