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Oracle / Passing Through

Holly Karapetkova Passing Through When the doctor told me there was no longer a heartbeat I refused to believe her, refused the D&C, my body a boat without a rudder and still I trusted it to find the way. I…

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Another Round

Corey Miller Another Round For Venus Thrash When I was homeless I slept with a hammer In my hands gripped like a driver Ready to cross lanes Building bones unattended I set out rusty nails in The lockless doorway A…

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The Fisherman’s Widow

  Alexander Pepple The Fisherman’s Widow — for B V P She’s found their shore without him there. Delving into the roar, she let saltwater pour on head hollows, loss’ dialect ebbing in and out. Her lot of days, of…

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Sixteen Stitches

  Jonathan Moskaluk Sixteen Stitches Grade three was my last at Airport Elementary— a low, L-shaped school near the base. Everything was arranged into rows: the military houses, the bus lineup where I fought that older boy in the mud,…

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House, Haunted by House

Hibah Shabkhez House, Haunted By House My smiles of welcome faltered long ago. Like the others in my row, I glisten Still. I gleam of prosperity. But—my Garden is watered with the tears that flow From the eyes of stooping…

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