Sturgeons

by Steven Ray Smith

There were two.
One started poor.
The other became. Continue reading

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Counterweight

by Erich Schweikher

This conscious attempt to see is producing sensations of searching
As in a museum – or walking off balance, hurrying forward in order to compensate for the weight of my eyes and even then leaning – I am drawn from one thing to another Continue reading

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Attention Deficit

by Jason Walker

The parents
nap
on a water-
bed. We plot
to pop
it with forks. Continue reading

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Kilned

by Adam Deutsch

A monarch was creamed
on the radiator along the way, Continue reading

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William Carlos Williams as Pediatrician

by Jacob M. Appel

He bled our girls’ fevers, poulticed their burns,
Stayed up with Baby Ida to the last, Continue reading

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