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  • King Tide Twilight

    King Tide Twilight

    King Tide Twilight by Elizabeth Kate Switaj you carried my bubu across the road it was only 30 yards but my grandma’s skin is sharp, her bones too soft to lift her birdweight from you

  • Mortal Weekend

    Mortal Weekend

    Mortal Weekend by Allison Hummel   The ground might rise beneath you, like bread. Things might descend to meet you, as if borne by the voice

  • Mimesis

    Mimesis

    Mimesis by Katherine Kim   There is an Orient in my body A floating head with my eyes, helix aspersa tracking slime across her face

  • Gimpel and Other Fools

    Gimpel and Other Fools

    Gimpel and Other Fools by Rochelle Shapiro Like I.B. Singer’s Gimpel in his short story Gimpel the Fool, my mother was foolish. Gimpel believed the unbelievable because he was a man of faith. But my mother’s foolishness was less innocent than his.

  • Flower Man

    Flower Man

    Flower Man by Michael Guendelsberger For L.S. and J.D.   Each summer, the village of Sommerset awarded one street the coveted prize of Most Beautiful Street during the second weekend in July.

  • Slippery Road

    Slippery Road

    Slippery Road by JR Walsh Wear me. It’s cold. Ride me. It’s faster. The goose-down trench and the tuned-up bike were trying to help, but that’s what you get for listening objectively.

  • The Tanner’s Wife

    The Tanner’s Wife

    by Sugar le Fae

  • Reg

    Reg

    by Thomas Gresham

  • Birdbath

    Birdbath

    by John Murray

  • Surf Nomad

    Surf Nomad

    by Tamara Adelman