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Breathe

My daughter dropped the birthday / watch I gave her far away, in the lake.

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Nick Edinger


Flowers arranged in bottles

Sight Reading

How we disoriented / each other within the measure

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Donna Spruijt-Metz


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Slow Release

I have left the door open so that I can watch / this slow opening of tiny leaves still, like luna moths

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Deborah Leipziger


Flowers arranged in bottles

Child Craft, Vol. 1

her tired voice / graveling down, // her voice a well

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Theresa Burns


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To Unmake

someone never here left / a loaf of bread, warm, as if fresh baked

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Robyn Groth


Flowers arranged in bottles

Spelling Homework

Five small, similar failures, / the handwriting innocent and terrible.

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Jennifer R. Edwards


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Amy Winehouse is Dead

She shuffles through the morning kitchen / on the way to her back-porch cigarette.

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Michelle Oppenheimer


Flowers arranged in bottles

Stillbirth Stories

First of all, lady, he wasn’t born dead. He lived. He lived.

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Courtney Harler


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Mother’s Day

then the touch of a nurse’s hand, a voice asking what faith I profess

Poetry | May/June 2022 | By Julianne DiNenna


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Breathing Easy

My neighbor looked at me quizzically, and I felt it again: a twinge of guilt for taking comfort in the global health crisis.

Creative Nonfiction | May/June 2022 | By Anna Rollins


This Particular Solitude

By the time I shut off the husband’s alarm, boil water, mix up the baby’s bottle, and empty my bladder, the baby’s room is suspiciously quiet.

Creative Nonfiction | May/June 2022 | By Jessica Yen


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