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

In Issues Archive, Issue 84, June 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 84, June 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 83, May 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 83, May 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 83, May 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 83, May 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 83, May 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 83, May 2024 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 Issues Archive, Issue 82, April 2024 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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“Mary Fleck,” “Something Out of Nothing,” and “In Rimini”

In Issues Archive, Issue 82, April 2024 by Stephen BarileApril 5, 2024

Once, in another time, I traveled with my parents
In the 1951 Ford sedan to a distant part of the city.
You could call it a city, but everyone then
Referred to it only as a town.

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“Pursuit,” “The Endless,” and “The Unswept Sky”

In Issues Archive, Issue 82, April 2024 by Marcia TrahanApril 4, 2024

The hawk’s shadow follows me.
Some smoker’s tar coats my lungs,
all the tiny quivering sacs.

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“Self-Sabotage,” “Freely Drifting,” and “Blissful Anguish”

In Issues Archive, Issue 82, April 2024 by Maria VolodkevichApril 3, 2024

Like a cross stitch
I tied down your limbs
thread by thread
preventing you from flying

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“No Tree,” “Saint Valentine,” and “Dead Heisenberg”

In Issues Archive, Issue 82, April 2024 by Jack D. HarveyApril 2, 2024

“No tree grows all the way to heaven,”
a darling end to a bible story
or Lenten play beginning
you might say;
a betrayal of trust

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“Easy to Forget,” “Sometimes,” and “the other road”

In Issues Archive, Issue 82, April 2024 by Joanne JagodaApril 1, 2024

It’s really easy to forget
To put it all out of your mind
That you might be living with a debt which could be called in
Any time by that unforgiving debt collector

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“Spectacle of Spectacles”

In Issues Archive, Issue 81, March 2024 by Annette YoungMarch 1, 2024

My Spectacles watched me seek for them
lowered their head with mine.
A clear silhouette of every
Twist
Turn
Bend

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“Elegy for the ‘Mule’ ”

In Issues Archive, Issue 81, March 2024 by Stephen BarileMarch 1, 2024

No idea where it came from,
The pipe-threading lathe
Just presented itself
On the job when it was needed.
From the truck and tools,
We rested the Mule near the alley

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“My Near-Death Experience”

In Issues Archive, Issue 81, March 2024 by Kathleen HollidayMarch 1, 2024

As near-death experiences go,
it was one of the best.
What more is there to tell?

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“So Far”

In Issues Archive, Issue 81, March 2024 by Julie BeneshMarch 1, 2024

We’re on our last legs, and the legs are last to go;
the best metaphors die young, reborn as cliches.

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“Crisp the Surface”

In Issues Archive, Issue 80, February 2024 by J. Parker MarvinFebruary 1, 2024

Shards of invention over
crisp dirt :: secreted
mouths whisper about
asexual
union and definitions :: small

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“Takers”

In Issues Archive, Issue 80, February 2024 by Lumina MillerFebruary 1, 2024

Picking at the bones,
they feed from residual
ligaments left
post quiet carving

began with disinterest
proceeding to tsks tsks then
disregard

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“The Winters of the Sun”

In Issues Archive, Issue 80, February 2024 by Lawrence BridgesFebruary 1, 2024

Like a title that keys no theme
Except an atmosphere, I slip into my clothes.
A doorknob, a checklist, a podcast
On an unsolved murder.

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“I Need Yesterdays” and “If Only to Look”

In Issues Archive, Issue 79, January 2024 by Samuel GilpinJanuary 11, 2024

reprieve thickening
in threatening
the still winter light
encrusted as a high
gray sky in thickness
turning in another silence
as in the waiting

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“Where are Tolkien’s Ents?”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Deborah FilanowskiJanuary 11, 2024

There is an army of ghost trees ringing the coastlines of the world.
Once verdant, evidence of a healthy environment,
now leafless, bleached white in death,
phantoms of the forest that once was.

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