Dad Explains Forgiveness on Our Drive Home

by Megan Munger

Lynnie, all you learn
on our visits are Grandpa’s horses
like saltlicks, have soft manes.
Grandma’s office, a typewriter,
she lets you play. Both of them
smile and hug gentle,

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Cleave

by Amy Fleury

Back in the bed of our gone son’s begetting
we drift on the raft of our grief. You join
our fingers together, your wedding band
glinting in the rivering dark. My tears salt
your shoulder. Your whiskers catch my hair.
We have only endured a week of ever-after. Continue reading

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Eye For An Eye

by Erika McKitrick

Remember the cemetery
the crypt, French theme
Gentle freckles
Me.
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Fitted sheet

by Timothy Pilgrim

We’re making the bed
after the night of failure
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For a Limited Time Only

by Laurel DiGangi

Nathan was restless. He’d been waiting far too long with nothing to occupy his mind. No phones, zines, or screens. No landscape either: just an endless grassy knoll and sluggish queues of naked people extending to the horizon. The sun, or some other glowing orb, had not budged since he arrived an hour, week, or year ago.

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