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LIKE WOMEN WAVING GOOD-BYE

March 30, 2025March 30, 2025 Katherine West

Trees in the wilderness, like women waving good-bye. Wind in folds of her dress, like women waving good-bye. Fire in a pile of leaves that lift one by one, like hands that cannot rest, like women waving good-bye. Pregnant sisters bleed like the leaves of fall lie against hospital walls Read more

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Little Boys Next Door

March 30, 2025March 30, 2025 Margaret Stetz

like a basketball so high with every toss like a doll they throw (but scorn to hold or cuddle) up goes the baby girl laughing first then screaming up up again almost to the ceiling they feel their strength the power of deciding whether to play the hero to find Read more

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The Last Harvest

March 20, 2025April 24, 2025 Susan Dipronio

I know before I hear her singing coming from the kitchen. My eyes are wide open and waiting. The morning is almost upon us, night subsiding slowly, day slipping in on us.  My mother and I are not deterred by the chill that has set in. It’s time to pick Read more

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Recycled

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 TAK Erzinger

I’ve gone through many lives as a little child, I was a fresh garment sewn together with purpose I’m trying to remember when it changed. Repurposed I was used day in and day out: partner, confidant, parent, sitter but I couldn’t fit into those shoes and was injured by the Read more

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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, 2025July 13, 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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