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Poetry

On a Failed Second Adoption

I am spatched flat, / leeched and rasped / by the shape life now / will never take.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Patrice Claeys


The Fall

She is a wisp / of skin over hollow bones, / a ribcage like harp strings / holding her wild-beating heart, / scapulae jutting like vestigial wings, / fingers and…

Poetry | March 2020 | By Morrow Dowdle


Little Foxes

But listen to me, going on. / It’s just that / the less you understand, / the more I want to tell you, / before you’re all gone.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Elaine Fowler Palencia


How to Explain Death to Your Daughter

Teach her what to do when she loses you. / Don’t say Heaven. You don’t believe it, / neither will she. Say anything but sleep.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Kate Kearns


Holy Work

You believe in fairies / and leprechauns. / You believe birds / can fly to space.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Mandy Henderly


Snow Day

I can’t recall / How to breathe / But you don’t notice / Grab my sleeve and tug / Ready to go back up the hill.

Poetry | January 2020 | By Kate Campbell


He Toddles

And now, his eyes drooping like commas / he settles a sentence / lies down in a pronoun / the O of a cradle / the space bar of nap.

Poetry | January 2020 | By Cassie Hague


Mommy Wars

She has psoriasis; he has mites. / Are you ready to do what I did? / Otherwise, otherwise, otherwise.

Poetry | January 2020 | By Juliette De Soto


what do you say

[B]ut you don’t know / whether to count the little phantom / girl still galloping around / under your skin.

Poetry | January 2020 | By Mia Herman


Daughter & Mother

I need to see only her in my own life, / to understand her, what it was like to be a woman terrified always.

Poetry | January 2020 | By Amy Small-McKinney


Whiskey Boots

Whiskey / is the perfect color if what you have / is a singular capacity for swilling / embers.

Poetry | January 2020 | By Allie Spikes


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