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Quintana Roo

by Susana H. Case

That day you accidentally locked us out
of our rental car on some road leaving
the Yucatan—Freud would have said it was

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Full Circle

by MK Punky

At his funeral
they say he came full circle
his life a grand improvisation
swirling past bel canto opera
to Korean hip-hop
making unscheduled stops at unmarked stations
slumming with the dregs and meeting presidents
Forrest Gumping his way to freedom

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Simulacrum of a Weeping Willow

by MaryAnne Hafen

My mountains bleed into my sky
on paper, and it looks wrong,
but it’s like real life;
virgo at summer’s end.
The world is too strange
to paint as it really is, too filled
with poorly pruned trees.

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The Way a Notion

by Wren Tuatha

We turn to walk back to our blanket
and you mention dating profiles
that say love walking on the beach…
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Psalm Ambulista

by L. Noelle McLaughlin

Nobody went to work this week
The whole world has the flu
You soup me and save me and gatorade me
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