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April 5, 2024 |
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SPRING EGRET Last summer this egret high-stepped the salt marsh a white puff of grace more follies fan than bird keen eyes keeping watch in the body’s long curves...
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January 4, 2024 |
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COFFEE BREAKS AND FAMILIAL ACHES The day Is frenetic energy Neutrons bouncing in a nucleus- the walls of this Kitchen I stop to percolate Filter the day through me like water through...
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January 2, 2024 |
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JOHN J. TRAUSE, the Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of Why Sing? (Sensitive Skin Press, 2017), a book of traditional and experimental poems; Picture This: For...
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January 2, 2024 |
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Mullions cut the windows into equal pieces, there were cats prowling the halls of the asylum. Nights straight-line rain hit the glass, the wooden rafters shook. Oracles in white uniforms...
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January 1, 2024 |
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“Christ did not want to leave the body.” — Linda Gregg It must have been hard for him to recount the parable with her there—just shaved, mons slick with suds,...
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January 1, 2024 |
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for Jim Harrison 1. The Naming We don’t know what they call each other or even how they communicate. Their tongue might lie in the cycle-sound crickets call or the rise and...
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December 30, 2023 |
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BEACHED WAIL OF BETRAYAL “…women will reject womanhood itself, if the condition ‘unable to move around freely’, both physically and psychically, is seen necessarily to...
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December 3, 2023 |
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TO THE LOVER Who was never truly a lover just a rotting corpse A pile of hollowed-out bones looking for a place to lay wounds of war and unspoken desires You made a...
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November 22, 2023 |
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MEE MA By the time my father is eighteen, my grandmother had been psychiatrically committed five times. My grandfather would pack her in the car – the bags under her eyes...
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August 12, 2023 |
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Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a tenured New York City educator and award winning poet who inspires triumph and embodies strength. She is a 2021 Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a two...
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August 11, 2023 |
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Opening scene. We meet a boy at the grave of a friend after one too many funerals. His stubble is sparse, because 18-year-old facial hair hasn’t turned to the daggers of a man. And...
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July 16, 2023 |
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I took all the shortcuts—fireexit, hidden stairs, first car closestto the escalator—and minutes later thereyou were under the chocolate lamp at myplace, practicing French,...
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July 8, 2023 |
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On our worse days We think being human is trash But sometimes the grass wants to be flesh Is not greener on the other side of the fence And the heavens want a human experience Unhappy...
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June 27, 2023 |
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HOME / MEMORY / HOME — for the women of Ukraine I called my home “Memory” because before I was born ancestral voices...
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March 30, 2023 |
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CRANING The wings are scoredfeather by featherof nearly weightless wood,and neatly folded one over the other.The student of art in Kinshasaput her name in capitals underneath.Mbantshi.I...