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UNDERSTUDY BY MARGARET RUTHERFORD

Blood was missing from my mother’s Budapest stories lost I trespassed stole her narrative from the dead. * Invisible gloves pointed to the left to the right sculpting time opening sutures– my mother’s plasma. * During...

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LEGACIES BY ANDY ORAM

Everywhere their whispers settle on us. By day and night we pace the streets surrounded by filigreed pilasters of sunken regimes. Virtuoso fingers on the soundboard brush the dust from ancient apotheoses in the taper-lit...

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NO RIGHT TURN BY MADELEINE MYSKO

On a warm Friday morning in April, Helene Baxter was out by the curb in front of her house on Dorchester Road, raking the sodden leaves from the perennials. Monday through Friday, except in the dead of winter or bad weather,...

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EXTRACTIONS BY JIM DAVIS

Wisdom teeth and molars require chiseled excision while other cuspids glide like baby teeth — wobbly and wiggly at breakfast — tucked in a pocket by lunch. Dusty silver pet bowl clatters where sainted dogs once...

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