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Poetry

patterns on water - Unsplash photo by Jr Korpa

After having a panic attack in Target Optical

mapping the routes to the door, / mapping them again

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Shea Tuttle


Flowers - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

Summer of Leaving

You gather zinnias for me / to celebrate, to mark absence,

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Deborah Leipziger


Water - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

Other Internal Bruises

I think will this pain be enough? / I think this is the only way.

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Briana Meade


Flowers arranged in bottles

Buccinare

secret one who almost materialized / what would you be now

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Susan Gillis


Sunrise - Photo by OC Gonzalez via Unsplash

Scapular for Parenthood 2.0

I, too, am tethered to always / knowing; to maps; to compelling the flow / of all our tides.

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Mia Schilling Grogan


Blurred lake horizon - Unsplash photo by Taylor Leopold

Headbanger

My aunts asked / is he a good baby / meaning does he sleep?

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Jana-Lee Germaine


Photo of drying hydrangeas - Alisa Anton via Unsplash

Hydrangeas

and I think I’ve done it. / I’ve become a flower.

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Elizabeth Hereford


Clouds - Photo by Dan Freeman via Unsplash

Summer Rain Enter

She knows his face his arms his eyes / So well she almost forgives herself

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Tamra Carraher


Painted background - Unsplash photo by bharath g s

reflection

and she stands in front of the mirror again, repeating

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Amie Souza Reilly


Dandelions - Photo by Paul Talbot via Unsplash

Statistics

good moms will raise kids who are / confident, the kind who try new things / without being afraid to fail because, to them, / failing is just falling

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Marissa Glover


Sunrise - Photo by OC Gonzalez via Unsplash

Rivers of Mitochondria

in all her sepia glory she’d know her lost tongue, / where her people came from, her way back home

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Yeva Johnson


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