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Poetry

Partial Eclipse

The first time we tried to conceive you, / the moon slid between the earth

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Pamela Mosher


Ceramic

My daughter asks if the bowl is broken or together / (like her father and me)

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Kathleen Mitchell-Askar


Our Lady of Snow Forts

Lady of February, of Frozen Light, of Time Siphoned into Crystalline Brightness / As mother to Mother, thank you

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Dayna Patterson


Something New Grows Each Year

Nights are like beads on a string / that keeps breaking.

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Małgosia Halliop


Up North

Zipper your raincoat and put on your hood. / Bring plenty of water and almond cream.

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Viola Lee


Febrile

If there are infinite universes, / there is one in which my daughter never turns / blue.

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Rachel Marie Patterson


What not to say

I held you when you were a baby, / the smallest particle in my universe

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Gregory Stapp


Excerpts from Ablation

Watch the water drip and shine / from our fingers.

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Danika Stegeman LeMay


[I am teaching my son the art of touching]

I am teaching my son / the art / of touching / a woman / or man

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Emily Pérez


E: Everyday Exaltation

All day I hear this version / of the alphabet.

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Kathryn Petruccelli


Take it Back

She carries the dark seed / sown in her tiny wrinkled brain / before she was born.

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Therese Gleason


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