COME TO ME AND LET ME HOLD YOU by Olivia Du Pont

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COME TO ME AND LET ME HOLD YOUby Olivia Du Pont  Come to me and let me hold youIn the dead of night where voices are hushedBreathe life into the night,For you are alive, you...

WORK OF ART by Valerie Patrick

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WORK OF ARTby Valerie Patrick   Work of ArtHold my face like the Portland VaseTrace the pictures on my cheekbonesGaze into my eyes like the Mona LisaAppreciate every stroke of colorCaress my body like the statue...

CALM by Elana Wolff

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CALMby Elana Wolff   Calm,not so long ago / the river ambling through the valley /easy in the aptitude of being in the blue beside the fireweedand pocket gophers stomping on the vandal grass / the...

DIVINE by John Raffetto

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DIVINEby John Raffetto    A LATE FATESeas fossilize into parched buttestrapped shellfishanthropoids in dark matter.Time did not freezeas massive ice balland volcanoesmerge into passive resistancepush and pullon earth axis.The bacteria count is one.A joke of...

NOT A PRAYER by Diana Anhalt

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NOT A PRAYERby Diana Anhalt  For Ethel Figueroa, the Librarian, My Heroine, who lets me hide in the library— closed for recess—when girls in patent leather, red ribbons tied to braids,scoff at my orthopedic shoes, my...

WORDS UNSPOKEN by Kimberly Crocker

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WORDS UNSPOKENby Kimberly Crocker     Words Unspoken            By Kimberly Crocker She dissolved from the feet up,vanishing in surreptitious bites like thosetaken by children when no one is looking.The strokes had crushed bits of her armor, too,leaving...

PABLO PICASSO by Richard Weaver

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Walker Percy She was always fun. No one knew her otherwise. At least those of us ...

ANNIVERSARY by Cathryn Essinger

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ANNIVERSARYby Cathryn Essinger Anniversary The Harvest Moon rising frombehind the strip mall appears tetheredto the horizon, but soon it will clearthe radio tower on the far side of town and lift effortlessly past Walmart, Sunocoand Payless Shoes....

WHITE CAKE by Annie Schumacher

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WHITE CAKEby Annie Schumacher   White Cake I don’t remember the taste of my wedding cake.Afterwards, we froze the top tier in mom’s garageto eat in one year, our stale sugary keepsake.It was white, of course,...

FINGER BY FINGER by Ashley Green

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FINGER BY FINGERby Ashley Green     Phantom I She knew something I didn’t,pale with untold prophecyand horror.You’ll stop loving me, she saidand her dilated gazeswam in grief. I laughed and touched her thigh, warmand bare, familiar and...