Volume 7.2 | Winter 2024
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Keeping Busy
Running throughthe bee swarms, not stoppingto feel the stings. But in the stillnessof my dreams, the welts erupt.
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Calendar
Whose need shapedthis space, placed ithere. Whose prayerframed the field,season and hour.Who remainsto trace the fence-line,breathe the light,harvest the shadows.
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Book Review: “Cleaving the Clouds”
Margaret Anne Kean’s chapbook, Cleaving the Clouds, is a record-keeping, an elegy, and a deep investigation of grief written in…
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A Companion on the Couch
From my hip to knee, she leans in with gentle pressureyet firm intent, her will steady even amidst dreams,my small…
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Splendor
Were I a pharaohI would take with meinto the next world: these sheetsthat will still hold our smellbecause we have…
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Desideratum
Today, I want to think about the clean slate of soil in the garden bed, and the old cat stretched…
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Early September Dinner Party
A secret ingredient hidden in all the dishes holds us together in fleur de lis, conversation looping,reversing in retrograde, central themes…
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The Good Ending
Two tired children tucked in bed, motherlovewhispered gently against their cheeks,light switches thrown, quilts tame on couchesmaking lazy hound-shapes in…