Category: issue one
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love you / leave me by Komal Keshran
more than anything else that hurts, my ankles. running through a city I am trying to forget is nothing easy. I wonder how many times you’ve stood right here.knowing I’ll always come home to the samethree sounds used to bring me comfort;I wish it still would – it’s hard to imagine that once upon a time I would’ve used the…
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The Disconnect by Jason de Koff
The Disconnect You never wrote,the oak tree’s name,upon the house it bore.Instead you placed,your name and number,above the open stoop. The soil you scraped,to build your life,was sold to another zip code.To bring bounty to,another scarred surface,exporting hard won gold. The grass in front,was exactly the color,you ordered from the store.Though I never,saw a single…
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Prayer by Dr. Arthur Broomfield
(Beir Bua’s Pushcart Nominations 2021) Sometimes I need to say a prayerthough I’m not the praying kind.I pray in whispers; my faith is in the air. I pray for all the rising starsand the rock of Dunamaise,I pray for the geraniumin its sacred space,I pray for rose and primroseand St John’s wort, they call hypericum.for…
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lucky emerald palace by Zara Meadows
times sq. grows into a fishbowl and all theweeds are coming home we are bathing ina light we cannot see chinese ferns and evergreens and gold at the hilt of your headat the root of the good groin at the soil of the…
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