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STILLNESS BY MARIANNE LYON

My work now is astonishment. Here the breeze—an impulsive playful puppy. There a lark—perches on budding maple head thrown back, breast a quiver, sings straight at the sun, Do I walk at a slower pace? Is my mind unable to...

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CHILD OF SILENCE BY ROBERT VIVIAN

After a mother is born inside of me, I ask the child of silence to guide me, little boy or girl candle bright in the darkness trembling with gratitude and his new feet an offering, her little hands reaching up to touch my face....

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WAR ON THE WAVES BY ZIXUAN ZHENG

Violent current, inviolable Sea, Gallant sailors, at Mother’s knee. For truth, the Sea is unwilling to compromise, Launching an attack on their lives. Black and blue, on and on they fight, Voyaging into the dark of night....

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OCEAN GRAVE BY ZIXUAN ZHENG

If it is the truth you seek, Then you would know the future is bleak. The rising tides, their ebb and flow, Into their depths, we all must go. Deep beneath the ocean’s waves, Lie what will be aquatic graves. We took her life,...

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THIS, I DO NOT COMPREHEND BY JONATHAN BRACKER

“Things are too much in the air, for me. I do not feel grounded, even though I live on only the second floor,” she says. I wonder what she means. Myself, I possess a condo Fourteen stories up with a good amount of sky Outside my...

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A PEACOCK FEATHER BY JONATHAN BRACKER

When the nice young lady down the hall In this apartment house agreed to cut My sweet cat’s claws, she did it very well, Said she enjoyed doing it, would take no money, And continued doing so for several months; She had...

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NO FORGIVENESS BY VINCENT BELL

The fires of his hell will burn his soul in perpetuity. His pain must be as endless as mine. When I knew that I could never be innocent again it was impossible to hold back the solace of...

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HE LIKED HIS DUTIES BY VINCENT BELL

The new priest was a German refugee who (or so he said) was tortured with hot oily rags leaving him with facial scars and a tic. He was younger than the others, so he got the more demanding assignments — after-school gym and...

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