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Poetry

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The Bear

If I shake / the nails loose from my throat, / would it be enough / to build a bridge?

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Amanda Roth


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The Smallest Shadow

It did not appear hurt. Only hushed, still, / its wings tucked close in

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Kathryn Petruccelli


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I Don’t Buy My Children Toy Guns

But celery sticks sprout into swords, / wily fingers craft ziti into slippery pistols

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Amy Ralston Seife


Water - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

New Mother Poem

How tall / will you grow before the insects / hear the hum of your sweet pith

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Alessandra Simmons


Flowers - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

Thetis Speaks to Her Sisters 

What if we all held hands and ran far / from sports day and another HR restructure?

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Kerry Ryan


Non sequitur as Metaphor - Photo by Andrea Quiroz

Non sequitur as metaphor

Not Alzheimer’s, just dementia unspecified, / said the neurologist

Poetry | March/April 2023 | By Patty Ware


Equation 65 - Photo by Sarah Nickerson - flowering grass

Equation 65

before he understood / one cannot be certain / where something is

Poetry | March/April 2023 | By Karen Arnold


Clouds - Photo by Dan Freeman via Unsplash

The Weight of You

No announcement of you / all those decades ago

Poetry | March/April 2023 | By Gail Snyder


Image to accompany March April LM - Poem - Port of Call

Port of Call

So out of the sticks and bones and ash / of my untended memory / the tiny chicks / bud again

Poetry | March/April 2023 | By Kate Falvey


Image by Alice Markov - Two Births - Mar April 2023 LM

Two Births

I birthed my mama / A wild thrashing muscular thing

Poetry | March/April 2023 | By Evelyn Digirolamo


Impractical Gifts - Photo by Sarah Nickerson @flxopenroads

Impractical Gifts

My daughter’s chubby starfish hands / stretch for the dark-mirrored river

Poetry | March/April 2023 | By Luca Salerno


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