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Angelica Esquivel

“The Hills” “Birds of Paradise” Angelica Esquivel ANGELICA ESQUIVEL is a Xicana artist and writer from Fostoria, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, America Magazine, and Crab Orchard...

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Cat DM

“The Journey” “Confluence” “Cosmic Lion” Cat DM CAT DM is an artist and illustrator born and raised in Medellin, Colombia. Now residing in North Carolina, Cat seeks to inspire curiosity...

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Home is a Holiday

Mohamed Morshed Mustafa emerged from the tunnel that led him out of the airplane and stepped into the airport. There were numerous lines of people facing glass booths; he joined the shortest line,...

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How I love this world

Gretchen Filart           after Mary Oliver’s In Blackwater Woods I love this world  as I do my daughter at bedtime – skinned knees from sprinting  before she...

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when i think of quentin tarantino i think of revenge

Elizabeth J. Wenger when i think of quentin tarantino i think of revenge dressed in tight yellow leather carving a katana through the script. blood squirts like hershey’s syrup from the screen //...

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The Cicada

Anna Laura Reeve                    The dog-day cicada’s screech pierces  noon air Trees ...

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Pearl River

Stacey Balkun even after the sun lifts  & does its best to burn off the fog risen around our clearing  it clings to the banks bruised by your hipbones  by the hard ground still...

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When Your Ex-Fiancé Calls

Bellee Jones-Pierce When your ex-fiancé calls you should be busy.   Let him feel the lush delight of interrupting  something. Have soapy hands, something risky  and pungent...

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Pastoral Fragment

Rachel RothenbergWinner of the 2023 Greg Grummer Poetry Prize Somerset County, Pennsylvania Half a cow is disappeared from the farm in Berlin, a two-ton Holstein, it makes  the paper. Gone the...

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Solve

Jeremy Griffin Runner-Up 2023 Spring Fiction Contest Rick is traveling east on his motorcycle at 45 miles per hour. Wind speed is 6 miles per hour. He left Sierra’s five minutes ago at 3:05 PM....

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