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Three Poems by Sandra Beasley

April 22, 2022

You are the sunburn / where there is no sun, a canary nested / in the ribcage of a miner.

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Three Poems by Ceren Ege

January 13, 2022

My mother chose to place his lungs in rice long before the doctors decided to / tease the tumor. Let the grains pull
out the chicken stock from its veins long before she stopped / cooking. My father was a quiet man.

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Three Poems by Janice N. Harrington

November 17, 2021

I am grass and root and loam. A vole tunnels in my throat. / Field mice bed inside my womb. Hair, limbs, / fingers lengthen and rise, lengthen and slender into turkeyfoot / and stands of Indiangrass.

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Three Poems by Sonia Feldman

May 19, 2021

the small birds stepping like dames / through the green aisles, / and the strawberry plants blushing / on the garden floor-- / I've never known another place / as animal for longing.

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Three Poems by Rick Bursky

March 18, 2020

We take turns dying. / Goddamn it, I think to myself, goddamn it.

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