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Aeaea of the Lesser Antilles

by Elianna Genevieve

here’s savannah bay, the apple-pink
mooring ball, the great bear spinning above us
eleven-hundred miles to the woman in the panhandle house
your steadfast wife and her arrow of a heart Continue reading

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Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout

by AJ Bergmann

“We got married in a fever.”
– Johnny Cash and June Carter, “Jackson”

No fantasy possesses the same
simple elegance as elsewhere.
I part my hair different ways
despite my plans to go nowhere,
see no one but myself Continue reading

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The Anti-Graces 

by Forrest Rapier

I worked night shifts I was up to my elbows in rye
Dough making shine rise the bread every morning
I worked in the dark it was August Continue reading

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There Is No One to Greet the Morning

by Dorisa Costello

There is no one
to greet the morning
with me, but a mourning dove
who’s lost her mate. Continue reading

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