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“Kayaking On Spy Pond,” “Parenting Mistakes,” and “Choices”

In Issue 86, August 2024, Issues Archive by Randi SchaletAugust 4, 2024

I lied when I said he’d been clean for a year.
It made a better story:
Addict resisting the call of meth,
riding the wave when the desire hit,
how big he felt—and bigger.

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“Still Life,” “Lost,” “Nothing”

In Issue 86, August 2024, Issues Archive by Anna St. AubreyAugust 4, 2024

This morning I wanted
there to be eyes watching
out for us, something somewhere

caring that we died,

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“Never Flan,” “No Cares Where We Go,” “Work This”

In Issue 86, August 2024, Issues Archive by Christopher Rubio-GoldsmithAugust 4, 2024

I am sure that everyone in my familia really enjoys flan.
But not me.
May I please taste the glazed churro,
the timeless cochito (con café and cream) or the delicate
tres leche cake.

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“Picky Soul Eater,” “I Was Thinking…,” and “The Witch and the Townsfolk”

In Issue 86, August 2024, Issues Archive by Blair BoleynAugust 4, 2024

You want my love but don’t want my pain,
My sunshine, but not my rain.
Can’t you see how that’s driving me insane?

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“A Priori,” “Signs of Something,” “Zero-Sum”

In Issue 85, July 2024, Issues Archive by Julie BeneshJuly 5, 2024

The first time I saw St. Peter’s
magnificent marble and lack of time-
pieces, I dismayed my travel

partner with an obvious observation;
a trifling truism: that it reminded me of a casino
welcoming the hopeful riff-raff

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“Interval 213,” “Étude 46,” and “Étude 76”

In Issue 85, July 2024, Issues Archive by Ray MaloneJuly 4, 2024

reaching across, hand into the blackberry bush,
a walk from where we were down to the sea,
a small bay, of pebbles & the incoming swell of the water,
listening for the rhythm, as if it might be the key to writing

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“Big Bang,” “Mother Tongue,” and “Rarity”

In Issue 85, July 2024, Issues Archive by Raju VegirajuJuly 3, 2024

How can something
come out of nothing,
let alone the universe?

But that is what contemporary
theory of cosmology proclaims—

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“Shaped,” “Relay,” and “Speechless”

In Issue 85, July 2024, Issues Archive by Susan SheaJuly 2, 2024

Seeing blurred writing
on an abstract painting
brings me right back

to begging you to teach me
to read before I went to school

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“Your Clothes in Tatters,” “Into the Slow Air,” and “Current or Currently”

In Issue 85, July 2024, Issues Archive by Samuel GilpinJuly 1, 2024

…skyward, lying on our backs listening for rainfall,
lying, we the ones of loitering, of settling into the longing for dreams to overtake us,
asking if anything could overtake us,
this overwhelming desire, this yearning for…

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“I Used to Love Christmas Movies…,” “Friday Morning 2:00 am,” and “Chasing History”

In Issue 85, July 2024, Issues Archive by Joanne AlfanoJuly 1, 2024

I have been watching White Christmas for 65 years so
tonight, the first film shot in VistaVision and Technicolor
rolls onto my tv screen; but the evening news, with far more
advanced tools, has begun to seep into my holiday films …

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“Jack Pines,” “Beachcombing,” and “Yards Away”

In Issue 84, June 2024, Issues Archive by S.D. DillonJune 8, 2024

They survived the fin de siècle logging
That claimed the rouge et blanc

Leaving tepees of slash
On the Grayling sand.

And the farmers
Wielding fire to clear land…

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“A Poem for Safe Keeping,” “Convergence,” and “Morning”

In Issue 84, June 2024, Issues Archive by Olga DuganJune 7, 2024

because I told you
how the homeless woman
preferred over a stranger’s
offer of food, water, money
just a moment of conversation
to confirm that she exists

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“I am Here,” “A Small Map of the Stars,” and “An Adventurer”

In Issue 84, June 2024, Issues Archive by Dorothy Johnson-LairdJune 6, 2024

He takes to his branch each morning, lingers there
Finds his gentle, yet firm grip on the wood with his small claws
Steady, he welcomes the fresh air
The sun on his strong beak
The orange light peaking through the high buildings

He closes his eyes
Takes in the soft breeze on his black feathers

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“Love stories,” “It has been so long,” and “Saying goodbye”

In Issue 84, June 2024, Issues Archive by Heather CameronJune 5, 2024

The laughter you hear, deep within the interior of the house,
Where the old couple from Italy, have lived for fifty years.

Or the glimpse of the treasured grandson across the road,
Laughing as his cousin chases him with the garden hose.

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“Fireweed in Autumn,” “Night Falls,” an “High Desert Nightfall”

In Issue 84, June 2024, Issues Archive by Francis FlavinJune 4, 2024

A sentinel for three seasons,
The fireweed stands unsteady
In the freshening breeze.

A phoenix of the scorched earth,
Its seeds break out in gossamer clouds,
Seeking newly ravaged lands to restore.

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“Glory’s Perseverance,” “The Lark,” and “Silk Worm”

In Issue 84, June 2024, Issues Archive by Solomon FragaJune 3, 2024

The days have merged into one
Like an endless musical number
The sequences of which
Play eternally without muse

I woke up
To a message from someone special
Whom I haven’t spoken to in God knows how long

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“First taste,” “Cooks River Avian Real Estate,” and “Breakfast”

In Issue 83, May 2024, Issues Archive by Wendy BlaxlandMay 1, 2024

Obediently, the baby
opens her mouth
to the spoon.

She has watched the adults
opening their mouths
around the table for so long,

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“The Voice of Wind,” “Coyote Laughing,” and “Some Instructions for Living”

In Issue 83, May 2024, Issues Archive by Kristi JoyMay 1, 2024

Listen to the wind, its
strings and strains of
language and song
pulling you to your feet;
a ragdoll animated and living.

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“Wood Wound Pareidolia,” “Gravity,” and “August 6 with Kokeshi Dolls”

In Issue 83, May 2024, Issues Archive by Vincent CasaregolaMay 1, 2024

The possible face stares back at me
from across the weedy, ragged backyard,
its dark grey oval rising from the darker
striated bark of the sweetgum.

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“Starlight Stitches,” “A Collection,” and “A Moment Lost”

In Issue 83, May 2024, Issues Archive by Leonardo ChungMay 1, 2024

In the galaxies pooling in the waiting room

where black holes hum the prelude

to creation

we chart the shushed diagnosis

embossed in the orbit of

the body’s forgotten comets.

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“The Handkerchief,” “Elfie Cooks Oatmeal,” and “Ascension”

In Issue 83, May 2024, Issues Archive by Malcolm GlassMay 1, 2024

My mother’s white handkerchief
lies on my hand, the corners
embroidered with small flowers,
pink, blue, white. I unfold it
and find the yellow feather,
where I put it eighty years ago.

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“Parade Day,” “The Irish Fairy,” and “Little Bird”

In Issue 83, May 2024, Issues Archive by Grace McCaffreyMay 1, 2024

Marching men in uniforms, crisp
Navy-blue shoulders, starchy stiff
Polyester and pins
Bagpipes gasp and gather
The strength to carry the day

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“She Comes. She Goes. She Comes.,” “On the Fence,” and “In the collection”

In Issue 83, May 2024, Issues Archive by Michal RubinMay 1, 2024

She disappears
takes with her
something created together
I move forward to where she stood
the absence of her presence
leaves behind a vacuum

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“My Bus Worries Me,” “Voice of Yesterday Morning,” and “Strangers”

In Issue 82, April 2024, Issues Archive by Sik Siu SiuApril 6, 2024

Epicurus the Greek philosopher
tells me not to fear death.
He goes, Why should you fear death?
If you are, then death is not.

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