Volume 6 | Summer 2022
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Trash Burning
When we first moved out to the country,my father burned our paper trash in a metal barrelin the meadow above…
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BBQ
Shall we have smoked alphabet today?can’t beat g dipped in French Onion sauceand v sparkles while cooking, but I would…
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Cure Redux
High in the rafters of Earth,a ventriloquized voice beckonsour species from the first eutherian mammalto the Anthropocene, our hapless current…
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Zoom Healing
Mike’s audio connected to Zoom and what had been a budding cynicism now bloomed. New-age Indian flute music and a…
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To My Father, Who Once Said, You’re So Open Your Brains are Going to Fall Out
You were right, dad. They did.Yet, apparently, some brains grow back. I left him after twenty years. Maybethat’s how long…
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Faith Journeys
The parking lot outside the mega-church was only half-full. Behind it a big sky, almost uncluttered by high-rises. Ruth didn’t…
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(True) Love in an Elevator
When the elevator malfunctioned we went from strangers to friends to casual dating but eventually could deny our love no…
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To Cristal Two
The steps were simple: first, knock on the door; then you have two options: if someone answers, you tell them…
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Opposites Attract
E-man, Electric ManModern Superman, goes electricall powerful, glowing with sparksthat twinkle in the eyesdark lightning in the mirror.Electricity — what…
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This is Your Poem, Rabbit
I remember asking youwas it a coyotebut I knew he would have taken youI came closeryou couldn’t runI nudged youthere…