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Modesty not when the mood strikes, .................................................when the mood is struck. I change on a cellular basis in ignorant repetition—the infinite scroll of a body switched on— ...

Palinody by Caroline Crew

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—For Feiga Maler, 1919-1942, who died in the Kraków Ghetto When she was fenced off even from herself, she had that strangled feeling as if the alphabet forgot her lips. How did she mend thoughts that snapped like ...

[When she was fenced off even from herself] by Yerra Sugarman

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The four walls of the Setco Plastics Factory were built around my sister’s name—its red lip, its pride, its dark hair pulled up to where she couldn’t see it. Her words were sifted through a wall of exhaust ...

Carmen by Gustavo Hernandez

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before you i lived in a world of birds. i cannot say that i was lonely, but i was alone, bearing witness to their color and sound. i drew their shapes, listened in, couldn’t care about faces or words. before ...

for my brother by Ana Pugatch

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In my hometown it will cost you 7.98 at Walmart if you want it in blue with a rifle in the talons of an eagle, or bannered across a motorcycle that was Born to Ride. You can drink freedom for 9.99 in Pigeon ...

Freedom Isn’t Free by Aaron Smith

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Does anyone alive remember them, I wonder, though as soon as I put it this way, I know I’m overdramatizing, not unlike the fat, forever-raging, satin-suited clown called Canio in i Pagliacci we’d seen on PBS that ...

Summer Evenings of 1974 by Malcolm Farley

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State tests found more than 65,000 children in the city with dangerously high blood-lead levels from 1993 to 2013. ...........................1 Even Ovid knew it was love’s antidote— the arrow meant for ...

Half-Lives by Carol Quinn

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Because I thought it was raining, I leaned back into a deeper part of myself. Womb-like, safe. The house was sturdy, would survive high winds, though none were on the radar. Why did I think it was raining? It ...

At the End of Each Sentence by Jeff Hardin

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Saw my brother in a wolf, in wildflowers climate change, bobcats, javelina, and praying mantis, lilac scent, laughter. Saw him howling himself back onto the sidewalk of his life before he lay his body in front of a ...

Missing by Mary Morris

LAR Online, Poetry

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