Volume 4 | Fall 2020
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Steam Power
I crawled up the driveway, worn tyres intruding upon a practical marriage of concrete and moss. As I came to…
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The Question White Parents Should Be Asking
This past summer, white parents across the United States repeatedly asked the same question: “How should I talk to my…
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Mountaineering
I live atop a smoldering volcano,always rumbling and threatening to erupt.I’m used to the smoke,my skin so grey on cloudy…
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Blood Brothers Revisited
A coworker says blackberries and I’m ten againIn that bramble beside the pasture.Tom is barefoot and giggling.Our lips purple from…
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Old-Time Music
Once again the wide river recalled. A story, a songAn artery of memory.Coffee-colored from summer floods.Meandering west, as I did…
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The Old Country
There on the map but vague in my mind.Blurred through the window As we touch down in rain. Rain like some…
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Twenty-One Epigraphs for Poems Celebrating the Retirement of Work Addicts
Only disconnect.Slow down aggressively.Do nothing and rest afterwards.Sit, stare, and move the wall.You have the right to remain silent.Nothing-happening is…
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“The Dead Know What They’re Doing When They Leave This World Behind.” Did David Berman?
A while ago I was at a party when I saw a stranger’s lock screen from across the room. It…
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Desire for Intimacy
It is getting late in the worldand the moon and the frozen lake are sparklingat each other like our ill-lit…