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Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Marge Piercy [Piercy, Marge]

I shake and turn. Then I filter and discard the herbs, throw out what was so fresh. I have extracted its soul. I have turned it to garbage. How often ...
( Category: Family January 31,2023 )
To Make Room for the Sea by Adam Clay
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Adam Clay

My Thought Is Only a Mirror for Yours —aft. N. S. Dry mud south from my words and a thought cast: did I bury my body? My off/on switch missing, ...
( Category: Family January 31,2023 )
So Tall It Ends in Heaven by Jayme Ringleb
epub |eng | 2022-06-14 | Author:Jayme Ringleb

both of us leaving handprints in a silt beach made less erodible by carefully placed, halved flat tires, and I didn’t really question it: planting our hands like that, so ...
( Category: Family January 31,2023 )
Earthborn by Carl Dennis
epub |eng | 2022-03-02 | Author:Carl Dennis [Dennis, Carl]

IV Rare Mood It’s more than a little daunting To conclude we’re not, after all, The handiwork of a god, Just a late descendant of pond scum. Still, we can ...
( Category: Family January 30,2023 )
Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Abani

LEATHER This Bible is heavy with vengeance. Not because its pages chart the path of the wrathful God of a wrathful people. But because Father beat us with its tooled ...
( Category: Family January 29,2023 )
When the Men Go Off to War by Victoria Lynn Kelly
epub |eng | | Author:Victoria Lynn Kelly

I’d left him years ago; we fought, I tore his photograph and never thought he’d rise up in my dreams again—his young wife gone— caught in the agony of loss, ...
( Category: Family January 28,2023 )
Blue Laws by Kevin Young
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Kevin Young [Young, Kevin]

Grief might be easy if there wasn’t still such beauty—would be far simpler if the silver maple didn’t thrust its leaves into flame, trusting that spring will find it again. ...
( Category: Family January 20,2023 )
Good Bones by Maggie Smith
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Maggie Smith [Smith, Maggie]

THE HUNTERS The hunters are just passing through. The three men stop to rest, to dip their ladles in the cold creek, and there are the woman and the child. ...
( Category: Family January 19,2023 )
i shimmer sometimes, too by Porsha Olayiwola
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Porsha Olayiwola [Olayiwola, Porsha]

BRUNCH WITH TWELVE BLACK PHANTOMS CHARACTERS: MALCOLM X BIGGIE SMALLS, aka big poppa CLEO, from set it off AUNT JEMIMA AALIYAH MUFASA, king of pride lands, simba’s father DARREN, the ...
( Category: Family January 16,2023 )
We Had Our Reasons by Ricardo Ruiz
epub |eng | 2022-04-05 | Author:Ricardo Ruiz

as the red paste rises to a boil, splattering her apron with my childhood favorite meal. I love him, he’s my best friend, the one who slept on my couch ...
( Category: Family January 15,2023 )
The Study of Human Life by Joshua Bennett
epub |eng | 2022-09-20 | Author:Joshua Bennett [Bennett, Joshua]

COLERIDGE 4 There was something utopian in the way that I fell, almost axe-like, into the soft earth of those early years as a med school student on the brink ...
( Category: Family January 15,2023 )
SoundMachine by Rachel Zucker
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Rachel Zucker

No one will know who Maggie Nelson is, Katy says. Everyone knows who Maggie Nelson is, Laurel says. Eventually the Avengers send Hulk away because even Veronica (Hulk’s self-created fail-safe ...
( Category: Family January 14,2023 )
Sad Birds Still Sing by Faraway Poetry
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Faraway Poetry

autumn evenings Most of us are not born with chemical imbalances, yet they feed us pills and convince us otherwise. And when life is leaving our eyes, and we are ...
( Category: Family January 13,2023 )
Travelers Leaving for the City by Ed Skoog
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Ed Skoog

Clayton’s Friend from Back Home Who Came to the City to See Widespread Panic One Halloween at the New Orleans Lakefront Arena, Disappeared, and Then She Walked By the Pizza ...
( Category: Family January 13,2023 )
Coffee and Papercuts by Leah Bailey
epub |eng | 2022-04-30 | Author:Leah Bailey

Title Poem What we have all endured Coffee and Papercuts January The coffee brings me calm in the morning, The papercuts should be fair warning. First of the year began, ...
( Category: Family January 13,2023 )

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