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Our Lady of Perpetual Inattentiveness

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 Paula R. Hilton

How do I pray for protection from collisions? From hits and runs? For an intercession at a busy intersection? Oh, Queen of Negligence what’s your preference? My luck’s been poor of late, and I’m desperate to know. What would you most appreciate? An altar? Candles unlit to represent drivers asleep Read more

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MOTHERS

February 26, 2025February 26, 2025 Katherine West

In Malta, at the stone temples of new mothers, they knocked the heads off ancient statues—mute mothers. My mother denied her mother, sold her daughter to a land without memory of true mothers. After she died, he wore her silk nightgown to bed, as if he could magic a double, Read more

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loose

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 Miguel Rodriguez Otero

so i hear you want to talk about sensitive men and spiritual growth and shit, and it immediately hits me we’re playing different leagues. it’s easy to put on that show: you’re cute, elegant, and have this sophisticated something that makes people around you feel so lucky to have found Read more

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The First

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 Margaret Stetz

my first murder was by water when I let them drown the bird fallen from its nest and rescued, caged safe in our backyard the other children who ignored me, shut me out of games now circled me now paid attention can we touch it? can we take it out? Read more

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My Pretty Nails

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 Jaimee Kosanke

My pretty nails brittle on the backside. The shellac is shiny, And consumer-facing. The glitter gradation Disguises the delayed self-care. The missed appointment And week four gel Deprived the beds of oxygen. A ten-minute massage temps me Adding to the bill and Distracting my impulse to unlock my phone Forgetting Read more

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Among the Mist

January 30, 2025January 31, 2025 Hannah Bagley

Her blue eyes follow us from behind the dip In the cascading hill of brown and green and red. They say she’s a runner— Fit with a halter that never comes off. Her soft nose meets my hand, Her feet prodding the back of my calves. I slip against the Read more

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THE WHITE GOD RISES

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 Katherine West

January 20, 2025 Behind dark mountains at dusk, the white god rises.Long after the loss of trust, the white god rises. During eclipse, they bang pans to bring the moon back.She laughs, what’s wrong with the cusp? The white god rises. Who sculpts the shape of woman, the shape of Read more

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Hamaatsa

January 26, 2025 Doug Hoekstra

a couple on the run, begun though it had ended, painting red lines, black streaks, triangles on the wall, forget the shortest distance, draw a circle with directions in the dirt, in the sand, in the movement of a hand, tracing imaginary cities across each other’s skin, spots of love Read more

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