Tag: 54.1

Young Tommy Jones

Grant Jensen Young Tommy Jones is building a boat on dry land.  The closest lake is a two-hour drive on a good day, but he says he doesn’t care and that he’ll wait for the rain to fall and...

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Poised Between Two Doors

Simone Muench & Jackie K. White Joyce Mansour assemblage Asleep like mud in enclosed gardens     earth glitters with December’s          phantom collar as the...

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The World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet

Georgia Lavigne They say it knows when you’ll die. Everyone’s got a file in every drawer. The higher you climb the more accurate the file gets. Bottom few levels it’s just a sheet of paper with...

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Haibun for when my father does yoga for the first time

Rukan Saif The last time I saw my father this close to God was when the doctors cut open his chest and took his heart into their palms and named it lost. So when he declines the call to prayer for...

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Forbidden Fruit

Shreya Fadia They say that when you’re pregnant, fetal cells migrate through the placenta, embedding themselves into the interior fabric of you, the process a sort of colonization, the result a...

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My girlfriend threw up on every carnival ride we went on, without exception

Katie Jean Shinkle The lights of the carousel blink once twice in distress.     You are on main stage dressed in all-black to blend in, to never be seen. Instead, I squirrel you away my...

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