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ODYSSEUS AND MY FATHER BY AIDA BODE

I wondered about Telemachus. His fate and mine, so similar, and yet, I felt he had been luckier in his misfortune than I. There’s very little comfort about me, very little legacy to hold on to, and very little room for pride,...

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AGOSTO, TRANSLATION BY WALLY SWIST

From Federico Garcia Lorca Agosto. Contraponientes de melocoton y azucar, y el sol dentro de la tarde, como el hueso en una fruta. La panocha guarda intacta su risa amarilla y dura. Agosto. Los ninos comen pan moreno y rica...

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INVISIBLE HATE BY AIDA BODE

She was not pretty or attractive, but she had an impressionable face; frosty eyes, at times blue, and at times almost white – crystal like, as if they’d break if one looked at them longer than she allowed. Her upper lip was thin...

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BE UPSET, BUT BE KIND BY ANAI GONZALEZ

things never seem so bad the next day exact same places seem much more desolate at night rose-colored lenses for the sun’s ultraviolet rays clouds of smoke to endure the night’s despair darkness seems never-ending when time is...

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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER BY ANAI GONZALEZ

to understand the burden of motherhood all i had to do was be my mother’s daughter to feel the heaviness of existential dread being born into a mortal body was all it took i exist against my own will ― how can this be? the...

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GIFT BY JAMES STEMMLE

we’re civilized after all we act as if we have moved beyond our fixation on bodies our grief though we carry erotic impulse and every loss as those same bodies move us through the world in spite of baggage we live in joy or...

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NIRVANA BY JAMES STEMMLE

so I had a moment of nirvana the other evening drained of desire a moment of just being kneeling cupping the breast of my old wife in memory of eroticism past embracing her as she sat at the dining table and in the aire the...

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WHAT’S IN A NAME BY PATTY SOMLO

Ever since the devastating fires that roared through my Northern California town in the hot, dry October of 2017, I’ve been signed up for alerts on my cell phone. When another fire started and quickly grew out of control last...

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