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A Month of Sundays
2023-12-05A Month of SundaysKathleen HellenIn the exaggerated light of perigeeI pitter-patter to the bus stop in my flip-flops.The minute lengthening like a fen...
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Drought Fishing
2023-12-05Drought FishingThomas ReiterMid-riverbed, below rapids dry asthe track left by a pencil eraser,I come to a pool that from bank-sideglints like the las...
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Listening to Cuckoos
2023-12-05Listening to CuckoosRobert AdamsonTwo unchanging notes; to us, words -- always those highelongated notes. Red-eyed koels with feathered earmuffs,downw...
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This Present Life
2024-02-13This Present LifeJames ReissDid the bird that slammed into my picture windowthink its glass was an open door he could breezethrough like the sparrow f...
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The Shallow End
2023-12-05The Shallow EndAaron FaganNot what IAm used toThinking ofAs life -- andMore fragile --Up from theRiverbed, itTrails braidedFishing linesFrom its body ...
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Where the Arrows Fell
2023-12-05Where the Arrows FellV. Penelope PelizzonAt the upturns of your grin, the red beard This year's begun threading itself with white. ...
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For Ruth Stone
2023-12-05For Ruth StoneJoseph MillarSometimes you say bad things about peopleclaiming it can't be helpedyou crawl farther into the darknessjust to see what...
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Not This
2023-12-05Not ThisOlena Kalytiak Davismy god all the days we have lived thrusayingnot thisone, not this,not now,not yet, this weekdoesn't count, was lost, t...
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Matinee
2023-12-05MatineeMark Kraushaar I'm not a marriage counselor. I don't know what's going on, and I don't want to know, but I like you. I alwa...
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Porch Pew in Summer
2023-12-05Porch Pew in Summer -- for Brian and Wilbur FrinkRichard RobbinsNever a prayer for some place more than this,wild turkeys in the field where old yea...