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Return to Home PagePowered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Inherited Water View
I sit counting gold
from my father’s teeth.
What else am I to do?
He didn’t leave his glasses
or a pipe. How am I
to read or smoke
obituaries as I kindle
wood-stove coals?
Who decided winter
became an old man?
She flurries toward me
across the lake, scores ice
with blue finger fire.
There’s a hammer
in the garage, toolbox
he also left me. I will beat
his fillings into coin, engrave
words I didn’t speak,
sleep with his precious
metal under my pillow.