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Looking closely at the photo, I would say I was about seven or eight, my head tilted far back to see the top of a tall redwood tree. My dress, red and sleeveless, is tied in the back with a large bow, but what interests me now...

I. Night sky filled with stars, difficult to discern the Big Dipper among such glittering abundance as I stand in an empty field, look up, turn in a circle, surrounded by jewelled vastness, an offering rarely seen, until I...

My nerve, my nerve You gave me the joy of touching her face And to feel the soft palms of my children You gave me warning from burn and cold And assured my life of the world to know My nerve, my nerve You aged and bent Or so did...

Hepworth’s hands when young: a study in black and white like Georgia O’s, supple and lean, fine lines in plaster, later cast in bronze.   Alan Catlin has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books on a wide variety...

A misting rain conceals the difference between night and day

She is at your favorite diner, & Denny’s & Steak Haus, & 99 Restaurant, enthusiastic, scritch-scratching an old-school note pad with a smile at every request. Subtly Estée Laudered, she leans in tight and says, Hon,...

I learned to count my breath instead of years, to live by increments the body keeps— a pulse, a pause, the courage to stay here when silence hums too loudly to be sleep. The world prefers a cleaner narrative: the healed, the...

last day of November only 21 degrees out sweater over flannel over pajamas two space heaters pulled in from the garage got coffee blanket cat on my lap what will I do when true winter descends   Jennifer Gurney lives in...

on a day when I’m looking for signs 27 is everywhere on street signs the entire drive home from my grief support group and the temperature has been exactly 27 for literally all day I see you I hear you I feel you it makes...

I can still taste the last key lime pie I made for us the crunch of the crust the tang of the filling the sweet in each bite like you sweet with the salty if you know what I mean will I ever make another key lime pie without you...