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The Life by Carrie Fountain
epub |eng | 2021-04-27 | Author:Carrie Fountain [Fountain, Carrie]

at me, mystified, my face inches from his. When he asked what I was doing there, I answered, I’m not here, go back to sleep, and he did. Once, my ...
( Category: Family December 20,2022 )
What Is Otherwise Infinite by Bianca Stone
epub |eng | 2021-12-03 | Author:Bianca Stone

mouththat was stuck to him— Now, tell me, what kind of person says: tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow every day before she falls asleep, like a prayer in reverse, like the ancient ...
( Category: Nature December 19,2022 )
I Know Your Kind by William Brewer
epub |eng | 2017-09-02 | Author:William Brewer

WHAT WE CAN REPLACE —What’s the last thing you remember of fear? Someone threw my head into a wall. And the dust of my teeth burst forth, falling like fake ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
Dear Specimen by W.J. Herbert
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:W.J. Herbert [Herbert, W. J.]

“I don’t know how it ends, Sarah,” “I don’tI say, “but the boy loves the manatees’ whiskered faces, flippers tipped with fingernails, flippers tipped with finlike his, and he wonders ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Requeening by Amanda Moore
epub |eng | 2021-08-19 | Author:Amanda Moore

Self-Defense Haibun The school called it Assertiveness Training for girls 13 and over. At the end-of-day showcase they are practicing self-defense against their teachers who are disguised by inches of ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 19,2022 )
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Michael Kleber-Diggs

AMERICA IS LOVING ME TO DEATH America is loving me to death, loving me to death slowly, and I Mainly try not to be disappeared here, knowing she won’t pledge ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
The Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto
epub |eng | 2018-12-15 | Author:Gary Soto [Soto, Gary]

After the rain You wore the heat like a shirt, You drank until your mouth Hung open and no longer Bothered to shrug off the flies. Later you rested under ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
First Four Books of Poems by Louise Gluck
epub |eng | 2021-09-14 | Author:Louise Gluck

Thanksgiving They have come again to graze the orchard, knowing they will be denied. The leaves have fallen; on the dry ground the wind makes piles of them, sorting all ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long
epub |eng | 2021-07-11 | Author:Rachel Long

My finger, livid with embarrassment, my blood salty, surprisingly salty for a girl my age. AND THEN THERE WAS THE TIME I GOT INTO A FIGHT at three minutes to ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Twice Alive by Forrest Gander
epub |eng | 2021-05-04 | Author:Forrest Gander

Pastoral Together, you standing before me before the picture window, my arms around you, our eyes pitched beyond our reflections into — (“into” I’d written, as though there swung at ...
( Category: Nature December 19,2022 )
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
epub |eng | 2021-10-05 | Author:Raymond Antrobus

[unstoppable singing] and this is where everyone in the Royal Opera House, Black, white, whatever, rises to their feet and shouts and hollers and claps and cries and none of ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Smoking with Crohn's by George Chopping
epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:George Chopping

22. arriving in the broken leg ward on your hands, wheelbarrowed by the hospital porter 23. waiting on the ward for the broken leg and post- pothole trauma doctor to ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
The Truth of You by Iain S. Thomas
epub |eng | 2021-03-12 | Author:Iain S. Thomas

A Bell at the Bottom of a Pond Somewhere inside of you, there’s hope and a voice waiting to say better things. Waiting to tell the truth. A Closed Blind ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 17,2022 )
What the Moon Gave Her by Christi Steyn
epub |eng | 2022-09-06 | Author:Christi Steyn

turning into a tree i see i don’t like who i am when i am upset stop being silly spilling tea is only funny when you can clean it up ...
( Category: Love Poems December 16,2022 )
Brocken Spectre by Jacques J. Rancourt
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Jacques J. Rancourt

whatever happens to fall in. Today when I step on my shower mat I’m stepping on my cat. Today this critter I loved more than I love most people leaked ...
( Category: Places December 12,2022 )

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