Tag: 46.2

In Flight

Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade   My brother-in-law, who flies planes for a living, tells me that no one can die in the sky. “But people die everywhere,” I protest.  “That’s the...

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Tigers for Tamir Rice

2017 Greg Grummer Poetry Award Winner, Chosen by Monica Youn   Jennifer Givhan My last time in the underworld I followed        a tiger          the book said tigers could be...

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Clevelanding

Betty Rosen   I learned “city” from Cleveland and its drone of heart-rot, clotting-rust hopelessness. I still read in its script of nostalgia. Its bridges crash down into silver water,...

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Wake Up Call

Steven Church   Fort Collins, CO 1999   Where’s the baby? I called out in the dark. Half asleep, I sat up in bed. Where’s the baby? I asked again. I’d been troubled recently...

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Register of Futures: Florida

Jessica Guzman Alderman   1. The limestone crevasse like stale bread & phosphogypsum butter,                                    one drawn gulp under a power...

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On Words, Like Wanderings

Jill Talbot and Justin Lawrence Daugherty   i. North Country For a while I lived along the Canadian border. Never crossed it, though it felt like it on snowy nights I’d settle into corner...

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lIght bird

Matt Trease   This Light Within Dirt This living grid in midnight dining with tiny bird pickings this trick within thinking   Light Trip Within Bird Cry 1. within this lightning 2. with...

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Swallowing Needles

Melissa Wiley   Closer to Honey There were gold veins on her ceiling. If not gold, amber then, something resembling resin. They once were blue, the same as everyone else’s. Only so many years...

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MS Nocturne Without a Magician

Emily Rose Cole   Night of hacksaw wind & tick-fat moon, of dog groan & failed medication, night I’m filling with letters to the body I can’t sleep in: Dear body,     get your shit...

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Constellation of a Missing Girl

Anita Olivia Koester   after Jamaal May   Girl with glitter wings painted on either cheek, spread purple up cheek bones. Girl with pink ribbons tied to handle bars, girl with purple bike...

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