spring 2021
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The Guilt of Not Wanting
Ashley Prince
Ghazal With Malbec, No Cigarettes
Oxytocin Pandemic Love Poem
Lisa Richter
The Deer Who Sneak Into Father's Butchering Shack at Night
L M Schmidt
No Fixed Thing Space Follows Adam Day
The Retrograde of a Frigid Planet
Self-Portrait as an Internal Dialogue on Rue St-Laurent, 2016
Lauren Turner
Self-Portrait as Used Condom Riding the Wonder Wheel
Melissa Eleftherion
arma virumque cano
Revelation on Baptist Hill
Libby Maxey
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho menelaus)
Jordan Mounteer
The Year We Considered Foster Care
Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Fits and Starts
Natasha Pepperl
Drought
Flash Flood
Samantha Jones
The Guilt of Not Wanting
The absence of blood stains
left each trip to the toilet
a death sentence.
Reckless nights captured
in a bloating, festering uterus.
Nothing felt right that summer.
The taunting of mother nature,
ragged, brittle poplars
sucked barren from the heat.
Harvests stillborn, grass
crunchy, yellow, soil leeching
onto any speck of water.
The heat so thick, most love
went unconsummated. Bodies
too sticky to bother.
Even the lilacs, long a source
of calm, didn’t visit.
A clear sign that the body
was no longer hers.