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Hovering Moon by Wally Swist

From La Luna Asoma by Federico Garcia Lorca When the moon emerges it loosens the bells and the paths appear untraversable. When the moon emerges the sea sweeps over the land and the heart is overtaken— cut off by what is...

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Sum of Perfection Translation by Wally Swist

from St. John of the Cross To ignore the created and inferior, to always remember the creator, to give full attention to the interior, and to be open to love the Beloved Lover. ***** Suma de Perfección by Saint John of the Cross...

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METEORILLOGIC BY CARRIE WEINBERGER

The sky shouted and the rose replied, unfolding early in the cold. “Hold back!” I would have said, instead, I saw your ruffling hair, your pause, wayless as a Cavalier without his king, turning a biddable ear to hear...

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THE BRIDGE BY CYNDI CRESSWELL COOK

The bridge holds steady. It never shakes or rattles, and it’s the halfway point between our two houses. When I think of the bridge, though, I only see it as a snapshot. I always forget about thechoppy dark blue water below in...

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Twirl By Caryn Coyle

The heat was one hundred two according to the thermometer on your dashboard. You wore a light-weight dress in an appropriate dark color. Your wet hair was tied in a knot at the back of your head, cool on your neck. And you were...

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SEASON OPENER BY FRANCIS FERNANDES

I’m lying by the open window with the smell of loam mocking my senses, and a magpie beats its wings and the air shudders like the crack of a bat when wood meets leather at ninety miles an hour during what I see as the...

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AFTERMATH BY FRANCIS FERNANDES

I shot the sheriff was the admission Bob Marley wailed into the stage mic and thus to the thousands of followers cheering on the grass before him, none of whom, of course, were expected to come up with a judicial analysis of the...

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INTO OUR BONE CLOSETS BY VINCENT BELL

Body maps on the wall in medical offices make us think that doctors know our insides from a cursory look outside. Psychotherapists reach their conclusions without even the benefit of wall hangings. Advances in medicine have...

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