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Components

by Helena Jiang

Somewhere else:
the mother bear passed a paw across her child’s head,
while informing him of some stories remote,
about how somewhere else, Continue reading

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Jana

by Richard Schiffman

When he called a month later,
I asked him how he was doing,
and he said, weeks of hell, weeks of hell.
And I nodded, though he couldn’t see me.
No doubt he nodded back (ruefully
I suppose) And that was that.  Continue reading

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Frontier

by A. J. Bermudez

I love a Western.
Give me sky & land
sun as a doomsday clock
whalebone stays & fourteen-inch waists
whatever’s for dinner’s whatever you shot  Continue reading

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Habitation

by Sean Eaton

(after Margaret Atwood’s “Habitation”)

We lie on the soft couch, our legs twining like freckled eels,
enmeshing in pearly needled grins of pelagic happiness.
We sip our wine and listen to the radio whinny, spurs jingling
in the pueblo twilight, light spilling from canteen windows. Continue reading

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My Father Plans a Backpacking Trip

by Chris Ketchum

Payette National Forest  Continue reading

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