JODA SHIN HAND ROSARY BY HARRIET GELLER
I pray with my tears, each one
splashing a bead of the rosary.
There are two kinds of beads (as if
there were only two kinds of sadness)
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THE HEART OF EVERY MATTER BY SIANI HENRIQUES
even now that he is gone
his summertime is still sucking
the winter out of me
FIELD TRIP BY MICHAEL HOOD
Joy busted loose from the long yellow bus and sprinted down the grassy slope toward the creek, besting about thirty other screaming kids. “Watch your step,” her dad cautioned, as she shot by the driver’s seat. Joy’s dad usually drove us on those year-end field trips.
Read MoreHALFWAY THROUGH THE HALFWAY HOUSE BY CECELIA LAPOINTE
In a single counseling session,
They ask you to heal 500 years of genocide,
Assimilation,
Land loss,
Culture loss,
Internalized patriarchy,
SEEDS BY KANDI MAXWELL
Three men looking the same in size, age and identical black leather flight jackets quickly wheeled me to the waiting helicopter and slipped me inside. Strapped to a hospital back board by tight yellow straps, I felt like I was in a washing machine
Read MoreHAPPENSTANCING WITH HITCH BY DEBORAH LeFALLE
Even the birds perched
outside the rear window
bare a beguiling guise.
MORTICIANS BY ANN HOWELLS
When you meet a mortician,
do not look him in the eye
EXIT, SKY BY WARREN WOESSNER
Black Jack Pine
explodes into crows
DEFINING MY DESIRE BY DEBORAH H. DOOLITTLE
I want to wear you like a blanket
piled high, soft as chenille or velour
MISS LILA’S FINISHING SCHOOL #1 BY KIKI STAMATIOU
Kiki Stamatiou is a writer, blogger, published author, musician, and...
Read MorePHOEBES BY DANIEL DAVID
Often mistaken
For titmouse or chickadee,
Phoebes gather
At the onset of winter
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