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Interstice

by Kiy Pozzi

a gap; a slit; the fissure a cottonwood branch makes at dawn; the stretch of time between thoughts while idling at the window. My mornings are an interstice of leisure from the two obligations that afford me my body, as are the evenings after work. But these intervals are often brief within themselves, being prone to interruption. Earlier it was my neighbor pinholed in the door, an interstice, and now it’s the blue jays going off like car alarms. The moment between their shrill calls becomes one too. Continue reading

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rusted

by Mikayla Maeshiro 

i am the host to a funeral in my brain
an open casket with no body
a eulogy gratingly carved in sepia
grave-robbed flowers pay their respects
the living are not worthy of mourners.  Continue reading

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Beckoned by Lilith

by Isabel Rhodes

They call me Maiden of the Night,
but I crawled out of the sun.
Celestial fluids dripped from my wings,
blisters marred my cheeks and bloody welts
rose out of my skin, Continue reading

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Self-Portrait with Matilda, 1996

by Siobhan Jean-Charles

Every day she untangles herself
from the sidewalks, sits in the library

with the sun spilling in her lap. She stacks
the novels into a skyline. At the bookstore, Continue reading

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Rota Island

by Anthony Albright

Who knew
this hue
of blue
existed? Continue reading

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