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Poetry

patterns on water

The Monomyth

she knows herself, the patterned ladder, / knows the circumvention of the mind

Poetry | January/February 2022 | By Kelly Ann Jacobson


Flowers arranged in bottles

Threshold

That January day I stood / as if iced in

Poetry | January/February 2022 | By Andrea Potos


We start this blank canvas

I’m stuck on my body, / how we’ve communicated in betrayal.

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Nina Smilow


Asking for a Mother

not a hair more // Than any person should need another person

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Stephanie Wirzburger


Light and Shadow Games

Weightless you fly now, / gravity doesn’t grapple with you

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Babitha Marina Justin


Midwinter Apology

You call me to wash your hair, cup bubbles / like Mary Poppins singing to her birds

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Kristin Berger


Sussed

One asks, // Are you going out tonight? / How my heart would sink.

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Lara Frankena


After the Child Rush

silence // is a foreign visitor who, it seems, / has come to stay

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Dorothy Baird


PINK

The color of cotton candy, the airy batting of childhood. Pale, new, and fleeting.

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Ann Guy


Henry’s Song

we mourn Sonja swallowed whole / into the dark / of the wolf’s belly.

Poetry | November/December 2021 | By Elise Chadwick


Kansas Isn’t Kansas Anymore

You are no longer Dorothy. / You are firmly Auntie Em.

Poetry | September/October 2021 | By Amy Baskin


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