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Learning to Forgive
Amanda C. Bauch

He had been dying for awhile. Cancer. First the liver, then spreading out of control. I envisioned an internal forest fire, blazing a path of destruction through his vital organs.

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Pavelle Wesser

"Why did he leave me?" She asked,
But she never should have. A trapdoor
was released within her mind and
she entered T...
Questions
Agnieszka Niemira

her hair a lion’s mane

her face neither old nor young

her smile knowing

her eyes through-seeing

meeting
Emily Habermehl

Raisins and prunes (reduced for quick sale)

When asked
She had hopped on
That motorcycle (told hesitation to take a backsea...

Raisins and prunes (reduced for quick sale)
Peter Schwartz

~for katherine~

I. bad nights

there are forests and
forests of animals
living in her shoulders
endurance gone

wild so many t...

bad, slow, and powerful nights
Peter Schwartz

Miss M., you're my unequivocal Queen of betweens, a little sunrise

to help me from banging my knees against the stove ev...

M.

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Pavelle Wesser

Her boyfriend left her and she froze. It was as simple as ice. Her surface remained smooth and cold as she clumped through the doors of the corner deli and orde...

Gill O'Halloran

It was the thoughtless grey mass on the screen
that sent me spinning without feet or brain
whilst she clicked and saved and captured it
loving its shadowy asymmetr...

Annette Marie Hyder

birds startle behind your eyes
your mouth holds a flood
that wants to wash out
foam over the cliffs
of what is between us

Annette Marie Hyder

i slip my feet into high heels
that strut me through my day
four inches of stiletto steel
that leave exclamation points
instead of flowers
springing like arrows of d...

Courtney Campbell

you know how ungrateful children can be. she
looked up at her mother with a look - with that
look. that look of i-won't-say-nothing that says
everything. after ...



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