by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Is a delicacy.
Like a shield,
rough skin shelters
the tender within.
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Fried Starfish
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At the Bottom of the World
by Andrea Nolan
The girl felt a flick against her instep, and although the drowse of the day was thick upon her, she knew that when she opened her eyes her father’s fishing rod would be gone from where she had held it under her foot. She stood at the dock’s edge and looked at the blue-brown water. The concentric circles of the pole’s disappearance had only just begun their outward expansion. There was still a chance to catch the rod.
Joseph on Fartherhood
by Kenneth Pobo
Sometimes I’d like my family
to enter a spaceship headed to Titan.
The farther away they are,
the more I relax. It’s not that Continue reading
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I’ll Take Your Jacket When You Die
by Leona Sevick
I know how this happened.
The tradition of naming things
one might pass on to loved ones
got him thinking about his share.
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