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Optical Illusion

July 4, 2024July 4, 2024 Susan Shea

I hate to imagine the times I made my mother cry behind the closed door. She wanted to see my face when she looked at her reflection, but I was on the other side of a two-way mirror. I didn’t want to look like her, after seeing her twist and Read more

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Poppy

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 Anne Leigh Parrish

A single crimson poppy flutters in weedy grass, catches the light like blood Wasn’t that grand, we ask just there for us to find You didn’t mean to say like blood, did you? The damaged ceiling comes down to reveal a beam singed by fire What you can’t see hides Read more

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glaucoma

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 Sarwa Azeez

it’s late in May the lazy afternoon coaxes me to go shopping it seems like I need some repair lotions or an excuse to mask my loneliness on my way it’s hard not to think of my mom after her diagnosis how much I want her to see with her Read more

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In Response to the Tragedy

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Gretchen Corsillo

They say destruction is a form of creation and God knows we’ve had enough devastation to last us three or four lifetimes— so we spin, moving faster and faster not just to forget about the despair but maybe also to see if we build up enough velocity, will something stick Read more

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Stimulus

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Paula R. Hilton

I’m a furnace, perimenopausal, in Florida heat index: 126 Long to skip daily walk, but it’s good for heart, brain, soul So I go. Then marvel as a man, at least 70, blows right past me I’m walking, ambling He’s running, sweat pours, stains his gray T-shirt. I hear smack… Read more

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Stumbling Block

April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 Susan Shea

When he found you, you were like a caretaker of living vines. You walked free up and down rows of collected lives, learning their ways, seeing the value in their twists and turns. He licked his lips, shook his jailhouse key in anticipation of the mayhem he would bring your Read more

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Las Manos

April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 Gretchen Corsillo

My hand aches forging a kinship with my heart and my head, side effects of sleepless nights and too many poems. My words render no verdict, reduced to scrawled symbols inadequate of expressing the affliction of my affection for you. The rhetoric betrays me— fractured, a breakdown. So I crumble Read more

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Dragonflies Fly All the Way Away

April 9, 2024 Ericka Russell

Summer meant grandma’s 80’s brown conversion van. Brown carpet, brown velvet curtains, semi-sheer accordion blinds and dimpled beige leather seats and a third row, pulled at the rusts into a bed. A speaker system more elaborate than the dash and a giant bread cupboard that actually stored a mini box TV. Read more

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